Jazz Dawgs and Friends at The Sportsman

On Saturday we went to Adrian Ingram's 60th birthday bash at The Sportsman in Huddersfield. He plays jazz guitar and used to be a lecturer at Leeds College of Music until, as he puts it, they started talking about 'learning units' instead of students. The 'prof' you could call him.

Terry Kenyon used to play with him for many years, even touring the USA as a duo with Adrian, playing jazz and blues. He played with some of the musicians on Saturday for a few numbers -

Terry is second from left and Adrian 3rd from left.

We missed the Jazz Dawgs first set - I'm so disorganised that this is a common occurrence, unfortunately. The second set was more of a mixture with guests 'sitting in' on various instruments. I haven't got all the names, I'm afraid. As well as Terry on guitar and vocals, the sax and trumpet players were very good, as was Robin on chromatic harp. A guitarist and bass player, introduced as the Jazz Pups, as they were a bit younger than the rest, also played some fine stuff.

Malcolm Rose (current band Rose'n'berg) did a few blues numbers which I enjoyed, backed by Robin on harp & Chris Strachan (current band Manhattan Sound - http://www.manhattan-sound.com/) on double bass, also Ian Wroe from the Jazz Dawgs I think.

See more about the Jazz Dawgs on their website http://www.jazzdawgs.co.uk

The Sportsman is at http://www.undertheviaduct.com

A good time was had by all!