so i wake up on sunday to a text from D telling me about the free gig on down at the barbican, free as in money as well as free as in completely improvised i'm hoping for as me and P make our way down there on the bus, then walking from angel to there, nice to walk through london on a sunday...
we get there and settle down to watch trio AAB who are right up my street, guitar, sax & drums with the last two played by identical twins, no bass which gives them an intriguing sound and some lovely, lovely music, jazz though not freely improvised but still beautiful...
i'm keeping my eyes open for D as this is going on and at some point i look to my left and see P - ex student of mine from the spontaneous music course that i used to teach @ cm, saxophonist, lovely player, i bump into him every now and then at these kind of events, i smile at him and he gradually focusses on my face and smiles back, i'm waiting for D still so i don't go over to him just yet and so i lose sight of him, looking for one person and finding another...
D arrives and sits with us, he's reading kafka on the shore the new murakami novel which i'm waiting for the softback of, it's lovely to see him as ever and we while away the gig chatting occasionally...
we had a barbican beer in the interval and then checked out louis moholo, who had francine luce singing for him, she who was my singing teacher back when i was training to be a teacher, she remembered that i'd given her a piano lesson & we might do some swapping of lessons as we both still want lessons from the other it seems...
also playing with louis moholo was a host of talent, in particular evan parker & veryan weston both of whom i love and who are representative of the improvised community, jason yard & claude deppa representing the jazz thing... all in all a less satisfying set for me than trio AAB but still powerful stuff, nice to show P (my P) some more free stuff to ponder, and they were definately freer than the trio, always an engaging factor...
found the other P in between the two sets and i'm going to try and go see him play @ darbuka with his band dar on march 2nd...
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