Club Night 4th March 2025

 A great night's entertainment with a distinct variety of music from classical piano to jazz standards on piano and pop/country style on guitar and vocals! We had a goodish attendance considering it was AGM night for the first 50 minutes. In the first set, Brian McMurray gave us a performance on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 playing nice jazz standards. Brian also kindly provided the arrival music. After the raffle and refreshments break, Hana Tani played the Clavinova for us with a mixture of jazz standards and classical pieces including Rachmaninov. What a wonderfully talented teenager who has been playing at our Club over the last 10 years and oh how she has developed. To finish the second set, Charles Rafi [Rafi] played his electric guitar with added vocals with some Pink Floyd and Toto! Well done Rafi, a nice change of style for the Club.

The Videos:

Hana Tani playing the Club's
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano

Brian McMurray playing the Club's Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Charles Rafi [Rafi] playing his electric guitar with added vocals

The Photos:

Hana Tani playing our
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809

Charles Rafi [Rafi] playing his electric guitar
with added vocals

Brian McMurray playing our Clavinova

Club Night 4th February 2025

 What a great start to the Year. A good attendance of members and visitors were entertained by a diversified and somewhat eclectic range of music styles and instruments. For the intro, the arrival music was shared between Graeme Webber and Warren Levick on our Yamaha Clavinova CVP-809 ensemble piano. Thanks guys some great music to get us into the mood. Graeme Webber then gave us a performance with a range of jazz standards, some with added vocals. Good stuff, thanks Graeme. Next up, our member Linus Treefoot brought along his Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano. Linus played some classics (with an interesting 'twist') and a highlight was a song he had composed for Auckland City - great song! Linus brought along his friend John Lethaby who gave us some solo performances on his acoustic guitar, harmonica, and vocals. To finish their set, Linus and John did some duets culminating in a great, foot tapping traditional Russian folk song. Well done guys, very entertaining.

After a refreshments break, we were entertained by our formal guest artists for the evening - Ken Naidu on our Clavinova CVP-809 piano and accompanied on some numbers by a music colleague, Denholm Orr on double bass. The focus was on light jazz numbers with some amazing instantaneous changes of key as called out by the audience! High-quality music and much appreciated by the discerning audience.

The Videos:

Ken Naidu (piano) and Denholm Orr (double bass)
Playing at our Club as our very special Guest Artists

Ken Naidu's BIO

"Ken Naidu is a session pianist, music director, composer, and arranger. He has collaborated with artists from Moses Mackay to Iris Dunn, with his music premiered in more than 20 countries, and has performed at nearly 40 venues worldwide. His work is grounded in the belief that art is both a mirror and a window: born of finite individual human experience, made infinitely boundless through its encounter with others, and deserving of the highest care in how it is created, shared and sustained."

Timestamps:

Tunes played:

  0:29 - Nardis | Bill Evans
    8:45 - Fly Love | Rio
  14:41 - Smile | Charlie Chaplin
  19:57 - Ken's Improvisation Game
  25:47 - Summertime | George Gershwin, Arr. Artley
  31:04 - Dark Eyes (Ochi chyornye) | Yevhen Hrebinka

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John Lethaby and Linus Treefoot. John on guitar and harmonica
and Linus Treefoot on his Korg Havian 30 ensemble piano

The Photos:

Warren Levick playing the arrival music

Graeme Webber playing the piano
with added vocals on some numbers

Linus Treefoot playing his Korg Havian 30

Linus Treefoot playing his Korg Havian 30 accompanied
by John Lethaby on guitar, harmonica and vocals

John Lethaby playing his guitar
with harmonica and vocals

Our Guest Artists:
Ken Naidu playing our Yamaha CVP-809 ensemble piano
and accompanied on double bass by Denholm Orr

Ken Naidu playing our Yamaha CVP-809 ensemble piano
and accompanied on double bass by Denholm Orr.
Denholm is seen here using a bow to play the double bass!