To Brecon Jazz to hear Derek Nash’s Sax Appeal (listen to him talk through his collection of saxophones and the Bakelite alto that makes him sound ‘like an old jazzer’ [www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdPSlmTNcI]). Where last year we watched Hugh Masekela, this year it was a series of fine solos from the likes of Mornington Lockett, Scott Garland, Gary Plumley and the gravely baritone sax of Bob McKay.
Afterwards to meet accordionist and busker Francois who, in his lilting West Wales accent, tells how the business of street music is being jeopardised by gangs of Roma musicians. He reckons they’re being bussed into town by old fashioned gang-masters and let loose on the unsuspecting streets. Fine for passers-by, he says, but when they’ve only got one or two tunes in their heads and play them ad nauseam it gives other buskers a bad name. Hum. My journalistic senses are aroused. Is there a story here?
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