How was your Jam ...

[rmorris]

6 hours ago, Staggering on said:

 

To make it even better (or worse depending on your point of view) I play tenor banjo in a trad jazz band and in the bluegrass band I play bass but get to listen to our excellent 5 string banjo player...best of both worlds.😄

 

Edit: I had to remove the ' that somehow slipped into the original post...I am getting old I guess.🙄

 

 

 

This is getting dark now 😳

[rmorris]

12 hours ago, shoulderpet said:

I used to go to a jam night a while ago and stopped going in the end.  Problem was the house band always had there favourite musicians so there favourites would be on for several songs and unless you were lucky you would get squeezed in at the end for 1 or 2 songs and occasionally if it was a busy night you might not get to play at all so you would end up at the pub till half eleven on a work night so that you could play for 3-6 minutes, to make it even worse if you showed up even slightly after 8pm they wouldn't even bother trying to make sure you got to play and would use that as an excuse. 

 

tbh ime any "Jam Night" organised by performers taking part is more about the ego of those performers. With little self awareness.

[nekomatic]

Well tonight the house band had ACTUAL RICHARD WETHERALL on piano, and since no pianists turned up until later on he stayed on for the jam, which means I have now jammed with ACTUAL RICHARD WETHERALL. Blimey. 
 

For the benefit of non-jazzers this is someone I would be reasonably confident of placing in the Premier League of current British jazz pianists. 

 

 

[TrevorR]

That’s pretty cool. The jam I go to is regularly hosted by Nicolas Meier who is well known on the circuit (and spent some time in Jeff Beck’s band,!!). When he’s not available Pete Roth often steps in to cover - another amazing jazzer and regular at Ronnie’s etc. What a pleasure to get to play with players of that calibre - not to mention how great the song the house band play to open the night is!!!