Opening with Is That Alright they go on to include Spunky, Bad Knees, Be Somebody and Baloney Roney. But it’s OK as they’ve recorded 36 new ones that have yet to be released and will be playing a selection of these tonight. To open, Sput tells us that with the pandemic preventing live gigs they’ve forgotten all their old tracks. Throw into the mix some keyboards, bass and lead guitar, a tarnished trombone, an even more tarnished alto sax, a flute and an eclectic bunch of musicians and you have the musical equivalent of a great trifle tasty and better than the sum of its parts. With two drum kits, conga drums and a variety cow bells it is heavily percussion based. Ghost-Note is the brainchild of Sput (Robert) Searight and Nate Werth. It’s part of what makes funk so funky! So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it is Ghost-Note’s moniker. For those of us who aren’t conversant with the occasionally arcane language of musicians, it’s that thing bass players do to make their guitars sound like drums, or that drummers do to sneak in extra mini-beats between the main rhythm. If you are a musician, you will know that a ghost note is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch. Now we have been treated to the explosion of sound and funk that is Ghost-Note. This was followed by another Prince protégé and NPG singer Liv Warfield. They kicked off back in November 2021 when we were treated to surrealist jazz-funk guitarist and former Princecollaborator MonoNeon. Since lockdown restrictions were lifted ParrJazz and Future Yard have been bringing us a host of big names from Across the Pond.

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