DAVID WAKEFIELD It is probably no exaggeration to say this venue could have filled had it been four times its size.Such is the lasting popularity of Britain's most familiar trombone man.
DAVID WAKEFIELD
It is probably no exaggeration to say this venue could have filled had it been four times its size.
Such is the lasting popularity of Britain's most familiar trombone man. He seems to have been ever-present
on the big-band and jazz scene for as long as most of us can remember.
In this, the final event on Tuesday in the Green Man's contribution to the East Coast Jazz Festival, Don Lusher didn't let his many fans down. This was a laid-back, good-humoured evening of highly listenable music, mixed with loads of nostalgia and a good deal of joshing between Don and another ex-Ted Heath veteran on stage, drummer Jack Parnell.
Cheered on by an enthusiastic house, Don Lusher wandered his way through a selection of familiar standards, like Autumn Leaves, Georgia and There Will Never Be Another You, with that mellow and melifluous trombone to the fore. But he rightly paid tribute to the house rhythm section (Jack Parnell, Mike Capocci on piano and Mike Harris on bass) who, he said, made his job easy.
Well, let's say he made it look easy; but then again, he has been doing it extremely well for a long time.
David Wakefield
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