Notes on Past Gigs

This page contains notes and thoughts about gigs, written a day or two after the gig. Administrative posts are also shown.

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Tim Kliphuis Trio – 24 May 2019

Canadians like me have a difficulty with British understatement. To say that the Tim Kliphius Trio was a bit special, even in the context of the musicianship the club gets, is the best I can do. The music was varied and fascinating, the musicianship exceptional. If they have fun, we have fun. And they did. Tim Kliphuis played a soon to be famous Belgian violin at a special exhibition. Nigel Clark played a beautiful classical guitar by George Lowden. Roy Percy played a small double bass with a big, rich tone. The evening started off with John Lewis’s “Django”. I…

Eyal Lovett Quartet + Blue Dahlia: 3 May 2019

Two bands for the price of one: the lovely Blue Dahlia and the superb Eyal Lovett Quartet. Dahlia Dumont has a lovely light voice. She sings in French, and some English. The latter is her native language, she is American, based in Paris. She plays the ukulele and is excellently accompanied by Daniele Borgoto on bass guitar and Aurimas Goris on button accordion. There was a nice mix of her own very good compositions and some French standards in a well designed short programme. Her “Ayo”, about an aunty, had some fascinating tempo variations. A non-French speaker would have no…