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| Neville Dickie |
Famed British stride piano player Neville Dickie appeared for the 12th year in a row at the Sherborn Inn last night, joining members of Stan McDonald's Blue Horizon Jazz Band for some high caliber Classic jazz!
Dickie played solo piano several times backed by drummer Dave Bragdon as well as being joined on and off by Stan McDonald on soprano sax and Jeff Hughes on cornet.
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| Ross Petot |
Ross Petot played piano through the intermission, where he was briefly joined by Dickie on one number. Petot played several tunes with the band as well during the second set.
Nagasaki was played by Dickie upon request and proved to be quite popular as did his Boogie-Woogie tunes which he is noted for.
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| Dave Bragdon |
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| Stan McDonald |
Bragdon gave Dickie a run for his money on a couple of tunes especially
Nagasaki where he kept up with Dickie's increasing speed. Tunes by Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie the Lion Smith were all on display. Dickie played Smith's tune
Finger Buster with alacrity and Stan McDonald and the band played Morton's
Tijuana to great effect.
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| Jeff Hughes |
One member of the audience, Freddy, who was celebrating his 70th birthday, got up to sing
Somebody Stole My Gal, which he did with gusto while using a couple of different voices!
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| Stan and Neville swing! |
The venue appeared to be quite popular to the full house who applauded and cheered throughout the performances. Neville Dickie told some jokes and kidded with longtime audience members including George A. Borgman's widow Janet. He announced to the audience that George was once asked to write 6 pages of liner notes for his CD
Any Time and that George turned in 28! He claimed the booklet was so big it was hard to slide inside the case. The actual number in the booklet is 15.
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Neville Dickie and Janet Borgman
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| Dave and Neville after the performance. |
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| Ross Petot and Janet Borgman |
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| Neville introduces Ross! |
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| Janet and Stan chat after the show. |
Ross Petot played piano through the intermission, where he was briefly joined by Dickie on one number. Petot played several tunes with the band as well during the second set.
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