November jazz lunch

After a late night gig near Fowey on Saturday 2nd November, the following morning DMs dragged themselves from their beds to play November’s jazz lunch at the Bedford Hotel, Tavistock.  Intrepid bass player Mick Johnson reports:

“This Sunday was a sell out; 60 covers as they say in the restaurant business and we were in pretty good form (considering the winged state of the rhythm section). We had a couple of very short intermissions to rest your correspondent ‘s left hand which had seized up late in the evening the night before, necessitating a substitute electric bass. I could feel it beginning to go on a couple of occasions but avoided melt down through resting for only a few minutes or using the guitar bass. Afterwards a delightful couple came to our dining room and congratulated us; Debs and Tess in particular as they knew them from childhood, having looked after them at their house many times.

During dinner John was waxing oratorically and it then it struck me so I told the assembled company that with a few more heavy dinners in him he could pass for Winston Churchill... that did it... off he went into several impressions to the amusement of all.

We divided up the absent guitarist’s dinner between us having neglected to tell them we were one short! It was very good:  rare roast beef , yorkshires, cauliflower cheese, roast tatties and excellent swede. Which wouldn’t have suited the missing guitarist’s fat free regime at all.”