Sunday Jazz at The Junktion Hotel: Well, that was fun…

This week’s jam session was definitely one of the livelier affairs – plenty of audience and musos (24, about par for the course) turned up, and after starting with the world’s slowest version of Stella by Starlight, soon kicked on. After an hour or so, the joint was rocking, a surprising number of audience had turned up, some driven from the other bar by a raucous end of year Football team bash, complete with a startling number of players on crutches, and a few socially refreshed players joining in the jam later on..

Standout singer of the week was Anne Hayres who sang so well that she pulled the rhythm section of Neil (g), meself (p) Ivan (db) and Perri (d)into a tight unit for a while – Out of Nowhere a highlight, with Perri swinging the proverbials off it. The Captain joined in for some smooth counter melodies. Audience peaked at around 50 in the room.

Ashley de Wangaratta and Carol sang duets, Brian and Kev didn’t but came up with some new material which ranged from adventurous to intriguing., the Debster stuck to her recent fine form on tonsils, then the late Miss Smith, unfrazzled for a change this week, came up with a swing version of The Nearness of You, followed by Dave Frisberg’s Peel Me A Grape.

Drummers Bill and Matt, Ivan and Dave on Bass, guitarists Fermin and Chico all had a dip.

The session came to a close, at least twice, by eight o’clock.

Good stuff all round, and better sound than heretofore. Apparently all those singers like a bit of reverb…