The music knows no borders…

I had a fairly clear scheme on how to picture last night’s gig at Jazz Dock for this blog where the love for music was the connecting factor between the continents, Europe, Australia and North America.  After all, I’ve seen these guys before, and the last time was not even too long ago, I have their record (which you should also get! link below), I know they’re good, they have a joyable and very skillful approach to what they do, and yet they surprised me, and not only me, so much for my scheme! I’m of course referring to Three of Seven, Libor Šmoldas – g; Sam Zerna – b; Jesse Simpson – dr. And the surprise? It started with the first chord of the first song for the night, Streets of Laredo, it also got the audience in Jazz Dock totally quiet. Libor’s guitar, which was magic last night, was like a light switch, everybody’s attention was suddenly on the stage, no more eating, talking, drinking! This would be the tune for the rest of the night. I have no idea what made this, a receptive audience that made the band excel themselves or a band that excelled themselves and got the audience receptive or maybe all together. To be honest, I don’t care, I was just happy being at the right place at the right time!  And of course Libor and his guitar was not alone, Sam dancing, loving, making his magic with the bass, Jesse disappearing somewhere, like he does when he is at his best, and letting the drums do the talking, a textbook of solos and improvisation and yet the bands togetherness was what made us all fall in love with the three continents last night. With a set list that contained standards, a couple of requests from the audience and thankfully quite a few of all the band members’ own compositions this was just, just… perfect!