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23 November
Gods of Apollo at Cambridge International Jazz Festival 2019
Well, at The University Centre wine-bar - the venue for this gig, and run by Cambridge Wine Merchants* - the race was on (as well as The Space Race evocation from Gods of Apollo) to set up the laptop and the phone to make some notes : they ended up, being made on the phone, e-mailed, opened on the laptop and copied and pasted into Twitter - at which point, the connection with real-time reporting had been lost...
¹ The home of the @camjazz bi-monthly, regular gigs.— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2019
² Reviewed (work in progress) at :https://t.co/JTakxBahE1
Hints, on sax, of ragtime melody ?— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2019
Nightjars / cicadas / shriek-owls (the telemetry now having been processed up, to a prominent pulse)
Then that Presidential piece of poise, posturing and pose...
Hints, on sax, of ragtime melody ?— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2019
Nightjars / cicadas / shriek-owls (the telemetry now having been processed up, to a prominent pulse)
Then that Presidential piece of poise, posturing and pose...
In a through-in-one-sequence gig as Rob introduced (although, as a rule, he dislikes speech before the first number), preceding Armstrong's famous words, those other famous words of Mission Control : The Eagle has Landed— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2019
A sense of peace [Sea of Tranquillity], next take-off... ?
Postlude :
So, that's three gigs at @storeysfield on Sunday afternoon and evening (and closing with @BrassFunkeys), and that - as they say - would be a wrap !— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 24, 2019
[To-day was @Roblcope's Gods of Apollo (https://t.co/CnFej6Wd4b), then @MariusNeset's quintet gig, and ending up doing the merch]
End-notes :
* Also, no mean purveyors of Scotch, through their outlets on Bridge Street, Kings' Parade, etc.
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