Wednesday 4 October 2017

ROTTENRUA JAZZ CLUB NEWSLETTER

We were very lucky this weekend to have Richard (of RBB), a famous* blogger from Nuova Lazio join us at our monthly club get-together. Richard brought Gloria, his number one double bass with him. This reporter attempted to ask Richard about this double bass, its name and what techniques he was going to use in playing it but frankly ran out of time. Richard seems rather obsessed with the different bows he uses - a French one and a German one. In fact he went on about those for so long I was tempted to ask him why he brought the double bass at all and didn't just play with the bows - preferably by sticking them up ..... but I digress.


The evening was very successful with some lovely music being played by Richard and some others -

 - and a solo performance from Richard with the highlight being a masterful rendition of Autumn Leaves.


The audience was enthralled and Richard should have left it at that.
Unfortunately he went on to give a rather bizarre performance of Mongolian throat singing or, as his geographically challenged brother Robert refers to it Afghanistani throat singing.The audience were bewildered and at least one chap, being woken by the bizarre droning and belching was seen to make a run for the exit crying out "Earthquake. Eruption!"

Thank you to all who attended.

Next month we will have a performance from Epic Doom Metal exponent Lars Christenson from Dannevirke.










*Famous in Petone according to another blogger Petone Ponderings

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