OT - Music. Gigs. Sounds bought.

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Last Saturday we went to the Ziggo Dome to watch Simply Red. Very well worth the effort. Musically very tight. I have a thing for the saxophone and the saxophonist was one of the best I've seen/heard, on a par with the likes of Hans Dulfer and his daughter Candy.

Mick Hucknall's voice was spot on.

All in all, a brilliant night.

The Dulfers? Both brilliant in their own right. There's a smal Jazz cafe on the Korte Leidsedwaarsstraat in Amsterdam. Free entry and live Jazz 7 nights a week. Popped in one night, getting on 40 years ago, and caught the last 10 minutes or so of an act. Next act due up in 15 minutes. To my great surprise and ditto delight, Hans and Candy were the next two on and they gave us half an hour of virtuoso sax playing.

Ha, coincidence. Saturday night my better half and I were running the bar for the performance of a Dutch Gypsy Jazz violinist. Guy called Tim Kliphuis and his Trio, including a guitarist called Nigel Clark who must be one of the best I’ve ever heard. Think Stephane Grappelli meets Django Reinhardt. Complete genius and given all the crap in the world at the moment…most uplifting.