A Few Live Recordings…

Posted by Andrew D Meyer on July 23, 2023 in Clarinet, Live Shows, Saxophone, This Week's Shows, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything on here. I’ve been quite busy retooling so to speak. I’ve been focusing my energy on the bari lately. It’s the one saxophone that, until recently I haven’t spent a tremendous amount of time with. Anyway, I’ve been working with my trio, the Bigote Trio, to create a horn-focused version of Gypsy Jazz and in the past that’s meant mostly playing clarinet for me. I love that sound and I think it’s really fitting with the style, but the past few months I’ve been working to create a bari sound that I think fits within the genre. It’s not something that I’ve heard anyone else do and I’m working to make it my own personal touch.

Here are a few recordings from this afternoon’s gig at Mala in the Northern Quarter, Manchester. We’ve been playing there every Sunday for something like twelve weeks so if you’re in town, please come check us out some time. It was pouring rain today and the building has a thin plastic roof so you’ll hear rain throughout the recordings. Maybe just imagine you’re in a French café and a carafe of vin rouge is keeping you tethered to the sidewalk…I dunno…

This first track is my own minor blues tune called Clyde’s Glide.

This next tune is a Django Reinhardt Classic, Nuages.

Isham Jones wrote this classic standard, There is No Greater Love.

And finally, just a bit of clarinet on the great Django tune, Oriental Shuffle.

Accompanying me this week was Tom Yates on guitar, as usual, and Grant Russell on the bass.

Hope to catch you soon!