If you take two of the county’s leading acoustic and jazz guitarists, a strong and musically flexible rhythm section, and a magpie’s sense of genre borrowing, you have a concert that is packed full of dynamic, and imaginative music making.
Local jazz ambassador Nick Dewhurst brought his talented band and special guest Derek Nash to play an exemplary set of originals and well-chosen covers when they appeared at Lichfield Blues and Jazz Festival.
Double bassist and composer Alison Rayner led her impeccable band through a series of high-octane jazz numbers and delicate ballads when they appeared as part of the 2019 Lichfield Blues and Jazz Festival.
Anyone who has seen Remi Harris play knows you get a lot of guitar, and a lot of guitars – and it proved to be the case when the leading jazz and blues guitarist opened the Lichfield Arts Blues and Jazz Festival.
You always know what you are going to get from a King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys concert – slick presentation skills, feel-good jump jive, blues, boogie-woogie and soul songs.
Add together one of the best-known songbooks of the past 500 years and a support slot from one of the country’s finest acoustic guitarists, and you have all of the ingredients for a memorable concert.
This newly formed trio led by guitarist Fred ’T’ Baker treated an attentive audience to a showcase of complicated instrumentals that ranged from atonal noise bombs, to solo classical guitar pastiches.
