Live Music: Country Club revolution? The Jam is back!

Despite hosting rapper Fifty Cent ("the last entertainment show ever held on that fairway" states former manager), the Constant Spring Golf Club (est. 1902) is not the place one might readily associate with free--wheeling, experimental musical improvisation featuring a cast "of thousands" (exaggeration of course).

Some of the best instrumental and vocal talents  - homegrown and those from overseas - gathered incrementally by the Club's Fairway Tavern to expound musically. The entire cast is too large to mention, but guitarists Wayne McGregor and Jason Worton, musical siblings Joel (keys) and Jeremy Ashbourne (drums) and members of other noted jam bands, including Skygrass, From the Deep and the long absent Belgian guitarist Gerd Baens (now playing mouth harp).

The result was a lively but not overpowering potpourri of dub, rap, blues, rock and other hyrbid or previously unnamed genre that sprang to the individual and collective minds

Live Music: heavy Grooves, Light Mood at Cafe Delite

There are jam sessions, and then there are legendary jam sessions. With some perseverance, we may (and they deserve it) soon be able to file the Wednesday night experience at Kingston's Cafe Delite under the latter.
Certainly bassist/convenor Paul "Smiley" Madden, and the most recent support duo of Chris Tyrell on drums and Alex Martin-Blanken on keys laid down sufficiently robust grooves - whether on "Mercy Mercy" or Bob Marley's "Heathen". Add in the "not too shabby" (OK, the marvelous) vocals of Alex's wife Christine Fisher - including a near tear-inducing "The Way We Were"(Streisand) and you have a live date definitely in need of wider recognition, even with the likes of Benjy Myers in the house.


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