After enjoying it so much last year, I was very pleased to get tickets for this years Spring into Jazz. This time they did a set called Tin Pan Alley in which they played songs and told the stories behind the music. Tin Pan Alley is a street where all the jazz publishers were in the olden days (I don't rightly remember the exact era its from. Probably somewhere around the 1920s. Good job I'm not being tested). After the amount of stories about musicians, publishers and songwriters they told last year, I was surprised that they had any more to tell this time but there was hardly any repetition of stories and not much repetition of tunes either. The fact I actually remember what they repeated from the previous year says a lot about how good it was as my memory is rubbish.
The band consisted of a singer who also played banjo, a trumpet/ cornet player, a saxophone/ clarinet player, a pianist and a euphonium player who had the most huge instrument ever. Just lifting it up was a feat in itself, let alone playing it. Apparently he used to have a metal one which was even heavier, but now he's moved onto a plastic one. They were all very accomplished musicians.
This time they didn't have a bar, it was bring your own drinks and a fish and chip supper was ordered in from Georges.
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