Sketchbook, by Dave O'Higgins featuring Eric Alexander

Sketchbook

by Dave O'Higgins featuring Eric Alexander

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1.	Why Don't I? 05:41	buy track
2.	Inner Glimpse 07:19	buy track
3.	Frith Street Blues 06:02	buy track
4.	Estate 06:06	buy track
5.	Ow! 06:49	buy track
6.	I Can't Give You Anything But Love 06:16	buy track
7.	Sketchbook 09:09	buy track
8.	I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life 05:04	buy track

about

Dave remembers:

"I met Kristian Leth while I was on tour in Denmark with Icelandic band, Mezzo-Forte. He was a mate of Eythor Gunnarsson, who's a great jazz pianist. Kristian later hooked me up with some gigs in Aarhus with various line-ups, and every time was thoroughly enjoyable. I knew he'd been working with Eric Alexander, too. I was a huge admirer of Eric's tenor playing, and so I didn't require too much encouragement When Kristian suggested " You guys would sound great together, why don't we organise a tour?"

I was playing regularly In the Ronnie Scott's House Band, so I seized the opportunity to fix a 3 night stint at the club with Arnie & James from the Ronnie Scott's All Stars and got Kristian on drums. Eric & I got on like a house on fire & the whole thing just clicked. The plan was a real old school 2-tenor blowing session, with a couple of originals in the idiom thrown in.

So what you have here is a live set, warts & all, played over an afternoon in the studio, the day after 3 nights at Ronnie's. We went on to play Birdland in Hamburg the next night, then on to different things.

Eric phoned me from a noisy bar after that, singing 'Water Jug' & saying "We miss you, Dave"."

credits

released April 1, 2009

Dave O'Higgins & Eric Alexander - tenor saxophone
James Pearson - piano
Arnie Somogyi - bass
Kristian Leth - drums

Recorded March 27, 2008
at
Clowns Pocket, Bexley, England

Engineer: Derek Nash
Producer: Dave O'Higgins
Executive Producers:
Trudy Kerr
Derek Nash

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shows

Apr 20

Christ Church

Swindon, UK
Apr 21

The Troubadour

London, UK
Apr 23

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 24

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 25

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 26

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
Apr 27

Marian's Jazzroom

Bern, Switzerland
May 3

Cape Town International Jazz Festival

Cape Town, South Africa
May 18

The Blue Room

Lincoln, UK
May 24

Jazz Club Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany
May 25

Birdland

Hamburg, Germany

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