Who remembers Richard Baker's spoken word introduction to Mary, Mungo and Midge? It went something like this. "A town is full of buildings; some tall, some small, some wide, some narrow. A town is full of houses, factories and shops. The buildings are built in streets with cars, buses and lorries running along them..." It goes on. Whilst this all may be factually correct, I would just like to pick Baker up on a couple of things. Where are the drinking establishments? No mention of pubs, hostelries or taverns. That's what every town is full of. What every town isn't full of, however, is jazz clubs. We're lucky in Nottingham - we have three (to the best of my knowledge), but I know loads of places where the chances of seeing live jazz are up there with being hit by lightning. On Christmas Day.
My jazz club of choice in Nottingham is the award winning Peggy's Skylight. If you've ever been to Ronnie Scott's in Soho, London or the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village then you're on the right track. We saw Joel Sarakula there on Wednesday night. He was sublime.
As was his guitarist Jimmy McGovern. Jimmy Mac - a local lad - looks like a guitarist. And by that I mean he's got 'the look'. Think Jimmy McCullough out of Wings, or those two gadgies in the Lemon Twigs and you'll know what I man. He's snake hips thin, rarely smiles and he's got the hair. Not to mention a beautiful Fender Jaguar. He looked something like this.
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