The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Mature mastery in east London
CHRIS SEARLE hears two veteran jazz groups roll back the years
The Mike Westbrook Trio
Vout-O-Renee’s London E1
5/5
Strata East Live
Barbican Centre
London EC2
5/5
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MIKE and Kate Westbrook last played east London 40 years ago when, as members of the Westbrook Brass Band and part of a quasi-Salvation Army unit, they performed at Stepney’s E1 Festival.
This time round, along with brilliant saxophonist Chris Biscoe, they welcome in Spring in the basement of the English Martyrs Church in Whitechapel, now the astonishing Vout-O-Renee’s club.
They’re running through A Foggy Day in London Town as I arrive, with Mike’s founding piano notes and Biscoe’s winnowing soprano horn to the fore.
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