#Gadgees attended Gateshead International Jazz Festival for the first time, appropriately for a #BucketList.
Arun Ghosh - indian waves of cool jazz floated over the Tyne on Friday night. The 5 piece band of clarinet, piano, table, drum and bass was tight and took the lead from Arun Ghosh - an artistic player of his instrument. With a wide variety of jazz sound with indian and folk resonances there was a wonderful variety to the music
@Gerry0504
After an evocative opening with "After the Monsoon" , introduced as appropriate for recent Tyneside weather, an apologetic Arun Ghosh,"Sorry, I'm not on it tonight" ,played a majestic set heavily featuring his most recent album, "A South Asian Suite".
This #Gadgee particularly enjoyed his intro to "Mountain Song" which I paraphrase, "It's supposed to be about Nepal, but I've never been, don't know anything about; actually it's set in The Lakes"
In a later aside, he revealed that he had been working with a class of schoolkids from Roman Rd Primary, Gateshead on an original composition presented earlier this same evening in the concourse. Hence the apologies which were unnecessary IMO as Arun Ghosh gave a consummate performance with his sextet of British-Asian jazz.
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