Tim Kliphuis Trio

On Saturday 14th November a big audience gathered in Brodick Hall to hear the Tim Kliphuis Trio playing their distinctive, brilliant jazz. Tim himself is becoming well known not only as an astonishingly accomplished violinist but as composer as well, while Nigel Clark and Roy Percy have equal eminence as guitar and bass players, ever creative and technically stunning.

Starting with a laid-back rendering of Tea For Two, the trio went on to unveil their subtle, intellectual jazz in all its richness. Vivaldi’s Winter crept into the many variations explored, and then the trio was into Grappelli’s Chanson de la Rue. Their Hoe-down for the Common Man was enchanting, with a shift into that ever beguiling tune, She Moved through the Fair. With a complete switch of mood, Gabriel Fauré’s Nocturne No 1 followed, then a Bach chaconne that might have had its composer jumping up and down with delight. (Never a stuffy man, Bach …) Astor Piazzolla followed, with one of those plangent, somehow heart-breaking tango numbers, and by this time the audience was in helpless raptures of sheer joy. An unforgettable evening.