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They’d come for a wedding, they said
From West Yorkshire. Huddersfield, I think they mentioned.
Soon – early in the conversation –
We were told that the full-haired - short-cropped – gentleman of seventy-ish, I’d guess
Had a grandfather who had been headmaster
Of a noted school in this historical city

Jazz had been advertised. And indeed
A more than decent pianist, who I’d describe
As (rugby) stocky more than obese, was laying down chords with his left hand
While, with his right, he played and then improvised around each melody.
Sat next to him, also in her thirties, his playing partner:
A nimble-handed, fluid-fingered woman
Fretting neat patterns on a low-actioned Fender Precision bass

When returning from the…lavatory (as I imagined he’d call it), the headmaster’s grandson
Offered his hand to the woman of another couple of similar age
As the jazz duo had moved on to old TV favourites
After an interval which the piano player had introduced
Via saying how much he and his musical companion were enjoying themselves
And if we were too, that was a very good thing.

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from What was left, released March 31, 2023

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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