The Miscreants

Review of Jam session 1st December 2024

It is always best, we find, to make a succinct summary of the jam session on the way home after, as an aide memoire. By the next day, the true horrors of the arvo have been forgotten, as a kindness to the psyche probably, and without such record, we would be free to ignore the precis and jump straight into maligning the miscreants, and you should know who you are by now...

As ever, it all started quiet enough - the opening stanza a bunch of bebop toons put to the sword by messrs Martin "haircut" Clifton, Neville, Mike, Roger the Good Captain and meself, as the jammers wandered in. Many of them, on hearing the din, quite possibly wandered out again, but by the fall of the last wicket, 21 peeps had got up and boogied, and whilst we tried our best to make the most godawful racket (and, some of us, occasionally succeeded), this session ended up a good one - at least going by the comments over the next few days.

The miscreants? Damn, lost the bit of paper... did hear some good stuff but: a neat bit of harmony from Kay and pianist Lisette Payet, a rocking version of My Baby just Cares For Me from Chrissie M, some sweet mouth harp from Ash... and a funked up ending with Adam and Octo, although the rest of us had retired and were packing up by then.

If your hearing has recovered by then, we would like to see you next Sunday and do it all again.