Last night we attended Jazz @ Mandolay, an evening of top jazz at the Mandolay Hotel, Guildford. As they say on their website "There are six top quality Jazz @ Mandolay gigs every year, and we pride ourselves by including young talent from various schools and colleges as the pre band, and then the headline bands finish the evenings off."
We booked dinner with our jazz and enjoyed a sumptuous meal from the excellent Mandolay kitchen. Tables of ten are filled as people book and we joined a very jolly group of folk all out for an evening of excellence.
The first performer was Linley Weir who with her accompanist brought some favourite jazz songs to her audience with her golden brown voice. To follow was the superb band of Ian Youngs All Stars with Sian Jones. We had a wonderful time foot-tapping to Mainstream, Trad and some more modern pieces as well as some real old classics. So good were the performances that the audience stood to applaud when the show was over.
We walked home humming some well known tunes and looked at the moon with its weird halo, wondering if this was more evidence of the volcano?
Jazz@Mandolay
Mandolay Hotel
Ian Young All Stars
Sian Jones
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