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Dave Green (top) and John Critchinson Herts Jazz Festival 2013. Photo credit Melody Mclaren. All Rights reserved |
Melody McLaren who has been taking pictures all through, picks some highlights of the Saturday of this year’s three-day Herts Jazz Festival. (Alyn Shipton reviewed Friday of the Herts Jazz Festival for us. Peter Vacher is reviewing Sunday.) Melody writes:
1. (Above) Lovely to see these great stalwarts John Critchinson and Dave Green (with Clark Tracey) on Saturday afternoon in a free foyer gig at Campus West. Can’t imagine a better way to engage the local Hertfordshire community, as well as loyal Festival fans, with the best of British jazz.
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Kenny Wheeler Herts Jazz Festival 2013. Photo credit Melody Mclaren. All Rights reserved |
2) – A rare appearance by the legendary Kenny Wheeler, performing in great company with Stan Sulzmann, John Paricelli, Chris Laurence and Paul Clarvis. The finale – Everybody’s Song But My Own – introduced as the equivalent of a “rock anthem” for the jazz community – was extremely moving for those of us in the audience who have heard this covered by so many great British jazz musicians.
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Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Petter Eldh Herts Jazz Festival 2013. Photo credit Melody Mclaren. All Rights reserved |
3) – Having performed with his band Anorak in the previous set, Iain Ballamy dropped in for a mini-reunion with fellow Loose Tubes bandmate Django Bates on his Beloved set. The two last played together in a quartet setting 8 years ago, and last played the tune they chose (This World) – when they recorded the album together on which it appears, All Men Amen, in spring 1993.
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