Monday 10 February 2020 For our penultimate gig at Griffin Park Jazz Club in its current location at Brentford Football Club’s The Hive Bar, we welcomed One More Time for an evening of beautiful live music and a little dancing. Favourites included Wabash Blues, 1921, Isham Jones and his orchestra; When somebody thinks you’re Wonderful, 1935, Fats Waller and Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone, 1931, Gene Austin. Continue reading
Monday 9 Sept 2019 One More Time gave the packed club a wonderful evening of live music, the band being made up of this evening of some faces from other regular bands to the club. Favourite tunes were (Hestitating Blues) Hestitation Blues, W C Handy, 1916, later covered by Louis Armstrong, Janis Joplin and more; Continue reading
Monday 8 April Max Emmons was back at Griffin Park Jazz Club with One More Time, it’s been a while. We enjoyed tunes including Coquette, 1928, originally by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians and followed by notable recordings by Louis Armstrong in 1942 and Fats Domino in 1958; Down among the sheltering palms, 1932 The Boswell Sisters, and Bing Crosby in 1957; and I’m confessing that I love you. Continue reading
Monday 11 September 2017 Max Emmons and his band One More Time were back to entertain with a super evening of lively music. Favourites were Harry James’ 1940 number Ciribiribin, At the Jazz Band Ball by The Orginal Dixieland Jazz Band (1918), and Kitchen Blues, 1924 by Martha Davis. Continue reading
Monday 13 February 2017 Tributes were given to Dave Evans who passed away a few weeks ago and had played drums with One More Time for 26 years at The Brewery Tap alongside being a band member of the Excelsior Marching Band. The drums this evening were played by Dave’s best friend Jerry Wood. Continue reading
It is with great sadness that we heard that Dave Evans passed away last week. A Brentford resident, regular musician with One More Time and man of few words he was simply amazing on the drums. When asked, he once told me he enjoyed listening to French Classical music: Debussy, Ravell and Eric Satie. Some beautiful heartfelt music. Heather (Fluff) has fond memories of Dave drumming sticks on railings on his way home from Strand-on-the-Green school when he was a child, and he will very much be missed at the club.
Monday 13 June 2016 Max Emmons and One More Time returned for their second visit to Griffin Park Jazz Club in 2016 with another varied set from their huge repertoire of Classic jazz with some surprises as well as more familiar sounds. As ever with their selections, we learned that many of the great standards of later years had their roots in 1920’s and 30’s original scores. We heard well known titles like Blues Skies, Maria Elena, She’s Funny That Way, Them There Eyes and Lady Be Good, and other tunes that sounded familiar but their titles were less so… Continue reading
Monday 14 March 2016 Max Emmons and his band One More Time gave us all a foot-stomping evening of music last night. These great musicians have such a large repertoire, we were treated to a pick and mix of New Orleans jazz and blues including Sugar Blues, a King Oliver number; Freight Train Blues recorded by Trixie Smith; Gypsy Love Song, sung by Mario Lanza in the film The Fortune Teller and the wonderful No Moon at All. Continue reading
Monday 13 July 2015 Max Emmons and his band One More Time dipped in to their huge repertoire of tunes last night and delighted the audience with their music. They really add value to their performance by researching facts about each tune and Max kindly gave me a copy of his info sheet so here are a few for your interest: Continue reading
Monday 9 February 2015 One More Time gave us a lively evening full of uplifting numbers including Amore, written in 1941, Rosetta from 1928 a New Orleans song, and I Cried for You with a great drum and double bass section. Continue reading
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