ANYONE strolling through the grounds of Cheltenham Minster might have been startled to hear, not hymns, but Dixieland jazz emanating from inside the ancient building.
This was no figment of the imagination. St Mary's is celebrating its change of status to that of Minster by hosting what was possibly the first jazz concert in its 850 year history.
Debbie Arthurs' Sweet Rhythm Quartet set out to recreate the popular music scene between the wars. Melodies from the twenties, like Ain't She Sweet and Fats Waller's Honeysuckle Rose went down a treat. While nobody actually got up to dance in the aisles a certain amount of foot-tapping was in evidence.
Vocalist Debbie Arthurs encompassed a wide range of styles from the jaunty Walking my Baby Back Home to the sultry Ray Noble number The Very Thought of You. In addition she manned the percussion section with flair.
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Looking like a night club bouncer Zoltan Sagi from Hungary proved to be a musician of great sensitivity swapping between saxophone and clarinet throughout the evening. He performed lively duets with trumpeter Gary Wood in numbers like Sweet Georgia Brown and Dr Jazz.
Versatile Gary Wood also shared the vocal slots. His rendition of the Rodgers and Hart song The Lady is a Tramp brought to mind the legendary Frank Sinatra. He also, very appropriately, introduced a religious flavour into the concert with the rousing Just Over in That Glory Land.
The fourth member of the group Roger Heeley is equally talented, executing amazing pyrotechnics on the keyboard in Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm and everything else.
The Sweet Rhythm Quartet rounded off the evening with a rollicking account of Duke Ellington's It Don't Mean a Thing if It Aint Got that Swing to great applause.
Roger Jones
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