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John Etheridge
Saturday 23
John
Etheridge was joined by Pete Whittaker (organ), Simon Finch (trumpet)
and drummer Mark Fletcher for his pre-Christmas gig and turned in his
customary rousing, unself-consciously wide-ranging performance.
Starting with a punchy John Scofield number and then playing pieces written by everyone from Nat Adderley to Pat Metheny, his set also including a seasonal visit to 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire' (featuring Finch playing a warm flugelhorn solo) and a blisteringly fast version of Dizzy Gillespie's bop flagwaver 'Wee'.
Etheridge himself is in many respects the archetypal Vortex performer – unassumingly virtuosic, witty, jazz-centred but open-eared – and his gig was the perfect way to ease into the Christmas/New Year break.
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