Opening Night of Goodman & Miller - Party Bags for Dave.

Cole Mathieson is the owner of the Concorde Club, in Eastleigh near Southampton.  He is a sterling chap who continues doggedly to promote jazz on Wednesday evenings at his club in the full knowledge that the music will never let you down when it comes to the art of losing money.   

Despite this, Cole kindly agreed to let me run our new show “Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939”  and fifteen musicians joined me in recreating the night 75 years ago when the two famous bandleaders shared the stage.  

Man of the match was Dave Chamberlain who was playing the role of Charlie Christian – not only had Dave managed to replicate the sound of Christian and his primitive 1939 guitar amp but he’d also learnt the Christian solos and reproduced them all beautifully – Dave, I doff my chapeau and there’s also a Jazz Repertory Company party bag winging its way to you.