Today was a make or break day for us. Our first rehearsal with the Shanghai Symphony Big Band. They are all excellent symphony players, but only do a couple of big band gigs a year, so we were unsure of what their jazz playing was going to be like. At the end of the first 4 bars, we all breathed a huge sigh of relief! THEY SWING!!!!! We had a run through all the pieces for the concert and then headed off to get ready for our quartet gig at the JZ Club. The boys went off to dinner with our bass player, Ren....Japanese food and sake....while I took time out to relax before the gig.
The club is small so "packed" means about 150 people. It certainly wasn't quiet! We had a few tables right in front of the stage that were there just to listen - mostly westerners - but the other tables were really just there for the venue. We played really well and were very well received so it was good promo for our concert on Sunday. We stayed to watch sax player Alec Haavik who we saw at the art gallery on sunday.
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