Sole Bay Jazz 3rd April…

What a great night of live music and fun…

Have a lot of  'thanks' to put on here this week……

Thanks Jan for taking me and of course thanks to all the good wishes about my eye,, which is great, felt a bit strange wearing sunglasses, but being a very short sighted person, and having to wait 4 weeks for eye to settle down and have new spec! , must take care as eyes are precious. Great that Jean is doing well with her new eye! and good luck for the end of April when she has the other one done.

Thanks of course to dear Jazz Janet who has taken  on the raffle for me…

Now enough about me …

A really good crowd came along to listen to the Sole Bay and they were not disappointed …and that includes our little 'crowd' our table gets bigger by the week… But will either have to move our chairs up a bit (are you reading this Les??? or the band will have to go back a bit as that post certainly blocks the view.…

A group of talented musicians making it again a bit different. of course Craig gave us some very good drumming, and Ray on Piano tinkling the ivories…Derek what a player. Allan gave us some vocals as well as cornet and trumpet, Tony on bass, mmm very nice, Alan on guitar and banjo keeping the beat…Tim as always our main stay a great musician and witty with it! some great music all round thank you all…I hope you the band …enjoyed it as much as everyone there…

To add to the night we also had our Roy singing, and a new one from him, very classy Roy …think Derek might have had a hand in the arrangement? anyway it was good, then our Jenny, a nice quiet one to start with, and then' Hard Hearted Hannah' wow Jenny well done, as you could tell by the applause, you know how we all admire you for your determination to fight your illness and you can have a gold star for last night!

Heidi as always such a worker, and that lovely smile thank you…

So if you missed the night, (as I had to last week) sorry but you missed a good one…

Hopefully some photos next week…

SOLE BAY JAZZ…

This week at the Sports Pavilion Ditchingham, the Sole Bay Jazz Band will be playing their talented best for you all…

The line up this week…3rd April…

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Tim Densham…Clarinet/Saxophone…

Derek Cubitt…Clarinet/Saxophone…

Ray Simmons…Piano…

Tony Jullings…String Bass…

Alan Cugnoni…Guitar/Banjo…

Craig Hipperson…Drums…

Allan Bradley…Cornet/Trumpet…

8pm-10.30pm

Report on last Thursday's Jazz…

Thanks Neil for giving me a little piece for the blog on last Thursday's Jazz at the Sports Centre…You are so much more eloquent than I am…

I certainly missed you all, and hopefully will be there soon…

Ditchingham, Thursday 27th March 2014

The jazz presented to us all was, as expected, up to the usual excellent standard of the Sole Bay Band. In fact, it has crossed my mind on more than one occasion that their standard is something that many other bands must surely wish to emulate. 

From well before the word 'go' there was an atmosphere of anticipation by the large number of early regulars, and the stage was set when the band opened with a swinging version of Perdido. Mostly the evening continued in a similar vein, with the occasional respite of some more relaxed tunes; also some songs by Roy Symonds for good measure. The only slight disappointment was that the well known and respected 'Jenny D' could not be persuaded to sing, but we all understand that she sometimes does not feel motivated for various reasons - she is a lady who herself has very high standards.

So there is not much else to say Beryl, except that you missed a good night, and please may I add my best wishes to you for a satisfactory result to the work you have had done on the 'peepers'. Also the others who are currently having similar work done - it seems to be a trend!

I would just like to mention one item about Dixie Mix, not necessarily directly related to our Thursday evening sessions, other than that various members have guested very successfully at Ditchingham. According to news reports, Dixie Mix have apparently secured a contract as support act on Rod Stewart's forthcoming tour. In my view, this would only be good for the promotion of jazz in Norfolk and the adjacent areas. It will be interesting to see how the East Anglian blend of this band is received by the huge audiences they will most likely encounter, if this all goes ahead as reported. Best wishes to this band for a good 'voyage'.

Regards to all, Neil

Thanks Neil…Yes and good luck to the other 'peepers' operations. mine is doing fine!

Sole Bay Jazz 27th March…

Just received  the line up from Alan for Thursday night 27th March at the Sports Pavilion Ditchingham…

Sounds a great line up, I hope you all have a great time, I will not be able to attend this week, as having a small cataract op… so make sure you get your money ready for Jazz Janet!!!!

I hope Neil will do his usual favour and write me how it went!

Tim Densham…Derek Cubitt… Saxophone and Clarinet…

Bill Brewer…Trombone…

Ray Simmons…Piano…

Tony Jullings String Bass…

Alan Cugnoni…Guitar and Banjo…

Craig Hipperson…Drums…

I am sure Roy or Jenny will be singing!

Go along and have a wonderful evening of live music…

8pm-10.30pm

Peregrines……

Well Mrs Peregrine has provided us with another egg, missed this one! but of course the many folk on the forum will have caught it…3 now…

Jamie and Skip have been snapping away and providing lots of photos, and this one from Jamie's morning at the Cathedral…

Breakfast is served…

Mrs Peregrine…

With 2 eggs already laid up on the Norwich Cathedral box, Mrs P decided a nice stretch was needed before the next eggs …

So Skip said I could post this wonderful shot on here…

I was going to put the one of them mating, but not sure who looks in!!! May upset some people! One of the comments on the forum was 'get a room' which I thought was rather apt ha ha…

Sole Bay Jazz Night…

What a great night at the Sports Pavilion. Ditchingham…

The Sole Bay Jazz folk gave us a really wonderful evening of  Jazz and Swing such talented musicians, and some good vocals…

Some solo's from all of the Band… Every single one of the band played so well and every week it is just that bit different, and what a crowd to supply their  appreciation of the playing…

I actually did not have time to take photos… so many people, and good that the raffle brings so much in for the band, so thank you one and all, but it takes a lot of time, however I can still listen to the music!

Roy provided us with some great vocals, and Jenny, how good it is to see you up there again, you gain more confidence each time, and I do admire you for singing after all you go through, keep it up we love you… and lovely to see Terry and the gang supporting you in every way.

As I have mentioned such a great crowd again, it is a good job that Jon is going to have an extension built, mainly for the Sports… but we have so many regular fans nowadays if they all turned up at once we would not get in, already we never have enough seats… But isn't that good to know that live music can bring so many people together…

We are so lucky and it is turning into a great Club every Thursday night… Lovely of course to see new folk finding us, and I am always so pleased to see how the word gets around…

Thanks Heidi another great job… your smile makes everyone feel good…

There are a few people still not feeling in good health at the moment, so sending some hugs to make them feel better…Music is a great healer…


Thanks to the band who I know thank you all in turn for supporting them…