{"id":1151,"date":"2012-10-28T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2014-10-28T07:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T07:03:49","slug":"brian-carricks-algiers-stompers-26th-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Brian Carrick’s Algiers Stompers, 26th October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Carrick’s Algiers Stompers<\/strong><\/span>, who come from the Newcastle area, had their first visit last Friday, 26th<\/sup> October 2012<\/strong> here at Farnborough Jazz Club in Kent.\u00a0\u00a0 Brian<\/strong> plays clarinet, tenor sax and vocals, with Peter Wright<\/strong> on trumpet. Chas Hudson<\/strong> was to have been on trombone, but unfortunately went to Farnborough in Hampshire, even though I did warn we are in Kent \u2013 still Chas, you are not the first and probably not the last to do so. Plus Chas, you probably enjoyed the drive through Hampshire\u2019s pretty scenery and the pub you no doubt visited aye? Roy Mascal<\/strong> played trombone in your place and who had only to travel from Welling. Gabriele Gad<\/strong> was on piano, with Stu Morrison<\/strong> on banjo, Andrew Hall<\/strong> on drums and Bill Cole<\/strong> on double bass. (See our separate band \u2018Page\u2019 for their CV\u2019s). You know, we all experience bad problems at one time or another, but what about this band! First of all, band leader Brian<\/strong> had a very serious accident when returning home from a gig back in 1998. He was very seriously injured and spent years in\/out hospital. He is now a bionic man! But what about his face! Oh it is such a smiley one. I am sure he moans in private moments, but it doesn\u2019t show, the lines on his face are smiley ones. Brian<\/strong> plays both clarinet and tenor sax spectacularly. Then I come to Andrew<\/strong>! I did mention in the separate band \u2018Page\u2019 how he had been living in New Orleans and had lost everything in Hurricane \u2018Katrina\u2019, so has returned to live back here. Likewise to Brian, you would not have seen any hint of all this in his face either \u2013 plenty of smiles. Playing jazz (or any music) \u2018live\u2019 has to be the most wonderfully therapeutic medicine there is. I also gain the same pleasure from listening and dancing too. So if you are feeling \u2018down\u2019, get yourself to any jazz club \u2013 preferably ours<\/strong> and you will feel a million dollars in no time, if only to set yourself up for another difficult week. Last Friday, everyone enjoyed themselves so much, both band and audience. The band\u2019s excellent choice of repertoire was quite refreshing, with such numbers as \u2018Hanauma Bay\u2019, a song Gabby wrote, composed and sang herself and what a gorgeously deep and beautiful voice she has too. Well done Gabby. Other numbers I jotted down were \u2018Can I Say Exactly How I Feel\u2019, Louisian-I-A\u2019, plus Hank Williams\u2019 number \u2018Take These Chains From My Heart\u2019. Stu (ex Chris Barber\u2019s Band) played a brilliant banjo piece in \u2018Oreo Biscuit Cookie Blues\u2019. Then Frank Sinatra\u2019s number followed called \u2018Black Cat On The Fence\u2019. Another fantastically played number was \u2018Bring It On Home To Grandma\u2019. Gabby then sang \u2018Heebie Jeebies\u2019. Also Brian gave a brilliant clarinet performance to \u2018Burgundie Street Blues\u2019. He proudly explained his clarinet had belonged to George Lewis, which was presented to him by George\u2019s daughter Shirley. I\u2019m sure that had something to do with how he played it (lovingly) \u2013 great vocals too.<\/p>\n

As with all clubs, we can always do with some more support.\u00a0\u00a0 So why don\u2019t you come and find out for yourselves and join us \u2013 dancing is good for the soul, plus losing weight too. Whilst I\u2019m on the subject of weight, have you enjoyed watching \u2018Strictly Come Dancing\u2019? I have to say we do enjoy the programme \u2013 Keith certainly enjoyed little Ola Jordan\u2019s hot pants last weekend! However, I wished someone at the BBC could ask the band and\/or the programme presenters, what is wrong with using the correct music for the VARIOUS<\/strong> dances? It is so soul-destroying to see the \u2018Star\u2019 dancers struggling to dance to \u2018pop\u2019. Don\u2019t they see the standing ovations mainly happen when the music is RIGHT<\/strong>! The American smooth, the Tango, the Charleston and the Paso Doble are prime examples, they all have differing beats. Another point for the BBC to ask is if their audience could be informed before coming \u2018on air\u2019, how to clap to the \u2018off beat\u2019. Don\u2019t get me wrong, as a dancer (amateur I may be), years ago, I always clapped \u2018on the beat\u2019 until I was shown by a band leader (Jeff of Manhattan Jazz Band) how I was wrong and I soon cottoned on. I now know it is very irritating to musicians. Some of our own audience get it wrong, but we are not \u2018on air\u2019!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the best of \u2018jazz\u2019 to you all.<\/p>\n

Diane and Keith<\/p>\n

\u2018Hanauma Bay\u2019 \u2013 Gabriele Gad<\/h6>\n
\u2018Lou-Easy-an-i-a\u2019 \u2013 Joe Darensbourg<\/h6>\n
\u2018TakeThese Chains From My Heart And Set Me Free\u2019 \u2013 Hy Heath and Fred Rose (1953)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Oreo Biscuit Cookie Blues\u2019 \u2013 Lonnie Mack (1990)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Black Cat On The Fence\u2019 \u2013 (l) Frank Sinatra, (m) Charlie Love<\/h6>\n
\u2018Bring It On Home To Grandma\u2019 \u2013 Richard M. Jones (1935)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Heebie Jeebies\u2019 \u2013 Boyd Atkins (1926)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Burgundy Street Blues\u2019 \u2013 George Lewis (1944)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian Carrick’s Algiers Stompers, who come from the Newcastle area, had their first visit last Friday, 26th October 2012 here at Farnborough Jazz Club in Kent.\u00a0\u00a0 Brian plays clarinet, tenor sax and vocals, with Peter Wright on trumpet. Chas Hudson was to have been on trombone, but unfortunately went to Farnborough in Hampshire, even though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brian-carricks-algiers-stompers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}