{"id":2814,"date":"2011-01-29T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:24:24","slug":"scottish-marley-chingus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/scottish-marley-chingus\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Marley Chingus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick shout-out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/marleychingus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marley Chingus Jazz Explosion<\/a>, who play at <a href=\"http:\/\/web.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/37\/37984\/Caledonia\/Liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Caledonia<\/a> alternate Friday nights, to where a friend invited me last night.&nbsp; In truth, I&#8217;ve seen their posters for a couple of years, but had avoided going to hear them.&nbsp; Their twee name makes them sound like a tribute band, and who wants to listen to people with insufficient imagination to play their own music, or even to invent their own name?<br \/>\nBut the loss was mine.&nbsp; What a great performance!&nbsp; The quartet comprises Colin Lamont on drums, Dave Spencer on e-double bass, Bob Whittaker on tenor, and long-fingered medic  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mishagray.com\">Misha Gray<\/a>   on e-piano.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last night they also had guesting another tenor player, whose name I did not catch.&nbsp; (And Principal Cellist of the RLPO, Jonathan Aasgaard, was also in the crowd.)&nbsp; Mingus, Monk, and Shorter featured (eg, JuJu), as well as their own fine compositions in brazen, hard-driving, funky, modal post-bop &#8211; serious early-60s jazz, before the harmonic emptiness of fusion took prominence.&nbsp;&nbsp; What I particularly liked was that their solos did not sound the same from song to song; quite a few jazz performers really play the same solos whatever the underlying tune.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gray&#8217;s trills, two-finger glissandos, and left-hand ostinatos were a delight, recalling early piano styles, and I also liked his occasional Shearing-style block chords.&nbsp; He could do more with those, I think.<br \/>\nPity about the name, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick shout-out to Marley Chingus Jazz Explosion, who play at The Caledonia alternate Friday nights, to where a friend invited me last night.&nbsp; In truth, I&#8217;ve seen their posters for a couple of years, but had avoided going to hear them.&nbsp; Their twee name makes them sound like a tribute band, and who wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hands","category-jazz","category-music","p1","y2011","m01","d29","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}