GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Well, it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, With the stars up above in your eyes, A fantabulous night to make romance, ‘Neath the cover of October skies.” – quoth Van Morrison, ‘Moondance’ As the days continue to shorten and the nights to lengthen, we yet …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “The leaves of brown came tumblin’ down, remember, In September in the rain.” – quoth Al Dubin, ‘September in the Rain’ As we progress into the ninth month of the year it always feels to me as though things begin to slow down a bit. The …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “True love blooms for the world to see, Blooms high upon the July tree.” – quoth Nina Simone, ‘July Tree’ With the summer months now well and truly upon us and the academic year drawing to an end, July represents for many a period of winding …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “June is bustin’ out all over! All over the meadow and the hill” – quoth Oscar Hammerstein II, ‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ This month’s Gig Review takes us all the way through to June – halfway through the year already, and I still haven’t …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields.” – quoth an unknown wellwisher from Ireland, ‘An Irish Blessing’ Well in case you hadn’t realised …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “Though April showers may come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May; so if it’s raining, have no regrets because it isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining violets.” – quoth B. G. De Silva, ‘April Showers’ Good grief is it that month …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! “You bettah Stick to the plan and get me planted by March ‘Cos They call me Iron Man – y’know, Tony Starch? [woof!]” – quoth Rich Tweed, ‘Something About Buckwheat‘ Well, we were dragged kicking and screaming into January, we staggered blindly into February, but then …
GOOD EVENING! And welcome to… THE GIG REVIEW! This is a brand new, freshly-baked feature in the Michael A. Grant Blogging Universe, in which I will be taking a wry look at the preceding month’s performances, sharing some of my sublime and ridiculous adventures, and – who knows? – maybe even learning some life lessons …
I’ll be heading out in a couple of hours to play some trad. jazz clarionet at Glossop Jazz Club with The Dixie Beats, in their final gig of the year. But before I do, I thought it would be appropriate to share these pictures of our previous Christmas gig at Eagley Jazz Club on 4th …
I scream, you scream, everybody wants… TRAD. JAZZ! That’s the kind of awesome insight you can usually expect from my posts on The Jelly Roll Jazz Band’s Facebook page, however today I’m going to talk about a couple of different bands with whom I’ve been clarinetting recently. Let’s start with a gig I did back …
