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French pianist is with visiting Kentonites, who included Britain's own Don Rendell, whom I saw many times and who plays some lovely lazy Lesterish tenor here.

Jazz certainly has a very elderly audience. Many (like myself) will be survivors of the jazz boom of the late 50s and early 60s (the Blue Note era) when they will have been in their late teens or early twenties. My late friend John Shelton (JohnS of this forum) who ran the Portsmouth Jazz Society used to say that as aficionados passed on or grew too infirm to attend gigs they were never replaced by anyone younger and so the numbers of listeners was in steady decline. Some venues have younger audiences, though, but they are still not as young as their twenties, the few exceptions being those who are studying, or are the products of studying, jazz courses. I'm aware, though, that this picture which is true for this part of the world is not universal. Whenever I look on YouTube at what was on a few hours earlier at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, I'm struck - and heartened - by the youthfulness of the audience in which twentysomethings are the norm and old guys like me are never seen - except sometimes on the stand.

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👍 Now playing: Recorded live during Zoot's pioneering London visit in 1961. Very much my era! Didn't make it to Ronnie's for that one, but knew the rhythm team of Stan Tracey, Kenny Napper and Jackie Dougan well. (Funny how British jazz musicians in those days always seemed to be either Londoners or Scots!)

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This is a nice one, John. Now listening for the first time. They do great things with Wes's compositions and solos. A thorough exploration of the Montgomery oeuvre, you might say! 😄

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