Extreme Measures

I'm still buzzing from the Extreme Measures gig at the Cluny last night.
Extreme Measures - Gary Turner (ten), Mark Williams (gtr), Ben Gilbert (pno), Stuart Davies(bs), David Carnegie (dms) - is the best band playing original modern jazz in the North East.
This was a fund-raising event for a cancer charity called Maggie's and it was also the last gig of the band with Ben Gilbert on piano. He's moving to London.
He'll be a great loss to jazz in Tyneside, and to me personally, since I have learned so much from his jazz improvisation classes at the Sage.