More Five Corners Quintet

Hot off my xmas gift lift comes "Hot Corner" from Scandanavia's rather fantastic Five Corners Quintet. I've raved previously about their "Chasin' the Jazz Gone By" from 2005. This is like listening to an uptempo Blue Note / Prestige from maybe 1966 - all big horns, driving drum beats and funky piano work. Well worth a look. I still kick myself that I missed them a few years back at a local gig when I'd not come across them. Released back in November apparently - go get this one...

Ho Ho Ho

I'm sure, like me, you can't wait until 1st November every year and "Now that's what I call Christmas tat volume 12" begins to play in all the shops and that great body of work including Slade, Wham!, John Lennon and Wizzard permeates your brain (again). NO? Not a fan of the canon of festive fun singles? Feel your hackles rising? Not just me then...

So as the antidote to all that here's a picture of the only xmas record I ever play - Jimmy McGriff "Christmas with McGriff" on Sue. The xmas angle? Shameless use of sleigh bells on the intro...thanks Jimmy

Any other good xmas records I should include?

Ho Ho Ho everyone...

Save yourself some entrance money...

I think usual entrance to The Waterfront is £4-50. They have a reduced £3-50 rate for National Union of Students (NUS). I've just found out that by signing up to a free discount card they will offer that rate to non-NUS on production of the card. See their Facebook page and the discount card site. Not sure if there are any drawbacks but worth a look?

Next night Saturday 3rd January 2009 and then third Friday of the "odd" months...

Shop local, shop Soundclash Records

Just in the process of starting (again) to digitise some vinyl (and heck is THAT going to take a long time!) got me thinking about the amount of vinyl I'd amassed over the years and a source of much of it - Soundclash Records in St Benedict's Street in Norwich. Started probaly back in the late 80s it emerged from Back's Records on Lower Gate Lane and is a traditional non-chain shop with vinyl (still) and knowledgeable staff. Paul generally gets a copy of the each of the new Kent / Ace CDs and whilst he can't compete on price with the corporates at least he still stocks the good stuff and you don't have to explain to someone what RnB really is!! He also sells tickets for UEA / Waterfront gigs and charges only the absolute minimum in fees / add ons he has to.

Asell as the usual Kent / ACE suspects he has or can get the Jazzman and similar reissue singles on lovely seven inch. Whilst I've not had a thorough oook there is also a parallel downloads section should you want to avoid the Apple Corp and associated alternatives.

Anyway, back to digitisng Acid Jazz "Totally Wired Vol.1" - number 7 done - only another half dozen to go...

Mailing list

Given the recent changes to dates and days from March we've added a mailing list contact to the home page of the web site. You can always opt in and out at will. This will hopefully allow us to remind people of upcoming nights for AOY

Thanks

Change of dates

For many years we've operated on the "1st Saturday of every other month" frequency. The Waterfront are revamping some of their nights and AFTER 3rd January 2009 we will be moving to a "3rd Friday of every other month" - same months, different day.

This means we'll be sharing the night with an 80s night downstairs rather than Meltdown.

The same times and costs apply as far as we know. Your continued support will be much appreciated on:

Saturday 3rd Jan
Friday 20th March
Friday 15th May etc etc

Ta