Had a very nice evening on Friday night after my long trek back from the SW - with some old BBC friends. We went to a new jazz place on the corner of Wood Lane and Shepherd's Bush Green, called The BlueJay Jazz Lounge.
Great decor, very attractive serving staff and decent enough food.
The jazz however was pretty terrible - Jazz latino style is just not my thing. Plenty of people seemed to enjoy it however - getting up and showing off their salsa skills, but for me jazz needs a double bass and proper drums. It also doesn't feature vocals in Spanish and a flute, but there you go...
It was too loud as well to have a conversation with friends that I've not seen in ages - I prefer my jazz a bit more circumspect. Dinner jazz if you like.
Still the decor and atmosphere is such that I'd go again - but next time I'll make sure more trad jazz is on the venue.
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