Great feedback from Stephen Graham, one of our Fermanagh Creative Labs participants who held his second concept night The second Further into Jazz: 10 October 2014 in Enniskillen David Lyttle 3 debut gig Event 2 featured the David Lyttle 3 playing their first gig together. There was a bigger turn-out this time, around 60-90 people (again the aim was 60), the sound quality at the gig very good, and feedback from the audience was strong. The gig had benefited from publicity arranged by marlbank.net on BBC local radio (a Sunday night preview on the Walter Love programme link: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jm0yv available until end of October 2014) and articles in local newspapers The Fermanagh Herald (Wed prior to the gig),and The Impartial Reporter (Thurs, the day before).The audience included mainly local people but there were visitors present from Australia and the US, and three in the audience travelled specially 100 miles from country Antrim to see the band. The gig itself saw the first appearance together of the David Lyttle 3, Waringstown based drummer David Lyttle, joined by the Northern Ireland-based US tenorsaxophone rising star Meilana Gillard, and double bassist Neil O’Loghlen, originally from County Clare, who played with Irish guitar great Louis Stewart the following night at the Galway Jazz Festival.The Lyttle three played two late-night sets, the first beginning just after half past ten, already a congenial atmosphere in the room, patrons having finished dining in the Enniskillen spot, settling back to listen to the trio having chilled to the acoustic jazz flavours on the venue’s fine in-house PA spinning a disc of Javon Jackson playing Wayne Shorter’s ‘One By One’ among other warm-up sounds. Lyttle using a vintage Gretsch kit has a hip new generation hard bop style grounded in the musical universe of Art Blakey, feeding the style of new masters such as Brian Blade into the mix of his own polyrhythmic sound, ideal for free flowing improvisations that build a momentum from the ground up. Gillard too was on fine form with a Rollinsesque sense of timing on the long extended passages, the richness of the lower parts of her register ringing out around the room so sonorously. At times it was hard not to think of the ballad parts of the Sonny Rollins album Way Out West on which the great saxophonist was joined by Ray Brown and Shelly Manne. A highlight of the first set was an extended 10-minute+ version of the Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz standard ‘Alone Together.’ But the rendition in the second set of Meilana’s tune ‘Identity’ from her 2009 album Day One here in a customised arrangement was the pick of the evening. Later in the set the trio were joined by Michael Barkley on trumpet blending well with Gillard in the front line.The David Lyttle 3 in performance top at Jazzeys. And in the individual pics, David Lyttle, Meilana Gillard, and Neil O’Loghlen at the soundcheck Stephen Graham marlbank.net
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:44:52 +0000
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