It's an amazing and fabulous thing that jazz players can come together and play decently with no history, or at least no personal history. The history that serves is the studies and practice and listening that makes for the essence of jazz. So Dave couldn't do this gig and Sean sat in. And it was a great gig and very much enjoyed by us and well complemented by listeners as they left and even as encountered on the streets. That's nice. Mostly standards, and that's part of that history mentioned above, but also several tunes from James that aren't just walks. Congrats to Sean for his ear. It happened a few weeks back, too, at Old Canberra Inn, when only I could make it and the sit ins made up 2/3 of the band, namely Ross and Mark. But this was another entertaining and challenging gig to everyone's entertainment including us. How I love music like this! Casual with beer on amp but deadly serious too. Jazz is something special.
Tilt Alt. were James Woodman (piano), Eric Pozza (bass) and Sean Kirk (drums) at Molly and Ross Buchanan (keys), Eric Pozza (bass) and Mark Levers (drums) at OCI.
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