Time At The Bar, Ignite, Wigmore Hall Bar/Restaurant, 22 June 2012

This seemed like a wonderful idea – improvised music to please lovers of jazz and contemporary music, after the Evelyn Glennie concert, in the bar/restaurant.

Of course we were up for it.

Here is the Wigmore Hall puff about it – click here.

It didn’t attract much of a crowd if I remember correctly.

We enjoyed our cold compilations and some wine…

…more than we enjoyed the music, which we found surprisingly bland – not jazzy in the way we thought it might be.

We’re all for the Wigmore Hall experimenting and the late night format is one of the more interesting experiments, although they are still struggling to find a formula that works.

But we have booked two more Wigmore Lates this year (as I write in 2018), both of which look right up our street, so we really hope the idea will find its feet eventually.

Anyway, below is the running order for the concert we heard on 22 June 2012: