The day before yesterday I substituted for saxophone player Klas Toresson with Rickard Lindgren Quintet, on a gig at Glenn Miller Café.
Glenn Miller Café, Stockholm. Photo by: Andrea Paraggio.
The concert was very well visited and the atmosphere was great, as usual at this place I might ad. At GMC you usually play three sets of music, which we also did this evening.
Overall the concert was a good one, with inspired playing from everyone in the band. Personally I was pretty satisfied with my first and last set of the evening, I had a little bit of a dip in the middle one. Since I were just jumping in for this gig I didn’t know the material as well as I would have preferred, and I had to struggle a little on a couple of occasions, but hopefully the audience didn’t notice…
In the band were, apart from me, Rickard Lindgren on trumpet, Erik Lindeborg at the piano, Kenji Rabson on the bass and Moussa Fadera behind the drums.
I have played with Erik and Rickard before, but it was my first time playing with Kenji and Moussa, something I really enjoyed and hope to get the chance to do again. Unfortunately Kenji had some problems with his bass and had to borrow another one, and it’s never fun being forced to play on another instrument than your own.
The audience seemed to enjoy the evening, we had a good time and the atmosphere was nice, so I think I sum this one up as a good one. Thanks to all of you who were there and listened to us!
Sounds like you all had a great time… apart from the bass problems. I don’t get to come to Stockholm these days…. do you ever get to gig anywhere in the south of your beautiful country..?
Also, please check out my answer to you over at my blog Jens.. I’ve put a couple of links to two UK musicians who you might be interested in having a listen to…Not jazzing guys as such… but good anyway :)
(You may already know of them of course in which case just ignore me (And…No I’m NOT their agent :):).)
I think you musicians have been really THE best at interactive promo on Web2.0.
/Linda