Always able to sprinkle the charm of Christmas through delightful jazz, the annual Dereck Walcott production, Christmas Jazz, rode into town and set up at the Plantation Garden Theatre before a – what else? – sold-out audience on Sunday night.
For the first time, an all-Bajan band, led by renowned saxophonist Arturo Tappin, graced the stage, dressed in red shirts and white pants: five horns (Tappin, Matthew Squires, Joseph Callender, Mylon Clarke and Kweku Jelani); three keyboardists (Stephen Francis, Andre Daniel and Kirk Layne); three percussionists (David Morgan, James De Lovell and Terry Mexican Arthur on pan); two bass players (Neil Newton and Marius Charlemagne); guitarist Jermone Waithe and drummer Melvin Alick.
There. That should dispel any question about whether the show was anything less than spectacular.
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