The Colin Steele Quintet in full swing.
Review: Helen Maddox MID ARGYLL Arts Association transformed Ardrishaig Public Hall into a lively jazz club on Saturday March 10.
Scottish trumpet maestro Colin Steele was joined by four of Scotland’s finest jazz musicians to create the Colin Steele Jazz Quintet. They lit up the crowded hall with their virtuosic improvisations, delivering popular styles of jazz to a relaxed and enthusiastic audience. Unusually, the quintet played an acoustic set with pianist Dave Milligan coaxing fresh sounds and funky rhythms from the association’s wonderful grand piano, dreamy one minute, bouncing out of his seat when things hotted up. Drummer Stu Ritchie, from Nice in France, had never played so quietly, they joked. With Calum Gourlay on double bass, the three musicians played as a trio at times, cooking up brilliant percussive jazz.