Jazz.... Nice!

Professor Ikema met us at Gojou station at 7pm tonight and took us to Dolphy's, a jazz bar named after Eric Dolphy. We all managed to crowd in to the tiny place, and Ikema-sensei paid for everything. We thought that he'd just bought us a beer each, which was a nice gesture, and then ordered quite a lot of food with the plan to share the cost between us. However, he refused and paid for everything! He must have spent over £100.

An eight-piece woodwind jazz band called "Clef" were playing tonight, and Ikema-sensei knew the baritone saxophonist who works at Daiichi. They were really quite good, though they have been together for seven years.

The programme was as follows:

• Take the 'A' Train
• Mission Impossible Theme
• Hard to Say Sorry
• Pick Up the Pieces
• something that I didn't catch the name of (though I recorded some of it note to self cf. 051009_1958~001)
  
• Tchaikovsky's "Overture" from the Nutcracker
  
• Tchaikovsky's "March" from the Nutcracker
  
• Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers" from the Nutcracker

Then came a twenty minute interval. This was ended by a long drum solo which led into:

• Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing"
• You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
• Birdland
• When You Wish Upon A Star
• "Masquerade" by the Carpenters
• A theme from the anime "Lupan" (last note to self cf. 051009_2123~001)
  
• Nightingale Song
• You've Gotta Try Harder

For their encore they played:

• Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Danny Boy (the fastest version you've ever heard!)

It was a really good evening, though. What does scare me, and all of us, is that Ikema-sensei is an English teacher despite not being able to speak, understand or write at all competently. I feel so sorry for his students. He does try hard, though.