After just 24 hours at home, back down to London. Once again the on-going works on the railways caused us to adopt new travel plans - Leicester to Narborough and then Narborough to Euston.
A straightforward journey and a short walk along Euston Road to the St Pancras Premier Inn.
Home for the next three nights:
A quick lunch at the nearby Pret a Manger and then a cab ride to Charing Cross Station, from where we walked down to the Embankment and then across the Golden Jubilee Bridge:
The first of today's two concerts:
After a great concert featuring music from their new album, Julia and bandmates took their bows:
and we headed out into the foyer:
Out, and down the side of the main Festival Hall building to Honest Burgers for an early dinner:
and then into the main Festival Hall building and into the Clore Ballroom:
A young audient makes himself comfortable:
and the band takes the stage. Yes, it's the Julia Hülsmann Quartet playing a free 30-minute set, to be broadcast the following Saturday on Radio 3:
After the set, Julia was joined by BBC presenter Kevin Legendre for a short interview:
Out, and along the Thames towards Waterloo Bridge:
OK, it's the wrong bridge, but for me, when it comes to the London skyline, Wordsworth really got it right:
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Across the bridge and up to the Strand, from where we caught a cab to the Barbican:
We were there to see (for the first time) funkmeister Herbie Hancock:
It's not a Herbie gig until he straps on the keytar:
On bass, James Jenus - who we had last seen supporting pianist Makoto Ozone at the "Porgy and Bess" jazz club in Vienna in 2018:
On vocals and flute, 24-year-old Elena Pinderhughes was as impressive as when we had seen her supporting trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah at the Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham in 2015:
Guitarist Lionel Loueke and drummer Justin Tyson with the others for their curtain call:
Out, to find that our troubles with public transport were continuing; the Barbican underground station was closed for the whole weekend. A walk to St Paul's station and a tube ride back to St Pancras, from where we walked across Euston Road to the Premier Inn.
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