The stage was hot at Harlem Jazz Club in Barcelona last night as the talented, warm and excitable host Ludovico Hombravella Suarez compared the tap jam. With the international guests, the audience was offered French- Spanish flash; Mexican- Spanish duos; amazing flamenco passion; fiery and fun Catalan precision; swinging American challenge…
Miss last metro (can hardly leave to catch it when Chloe and Jason are about to dance!) so walk home with Sebastian Weber, whose hotel is near by my flat, through the labyrinth streets in the old town. The third time we pass the same street in five minute intervals, I decide take over navigation only to find that the shortest route is possibly also the most dangerous and in a narrow alley lined with rubbish and some very suspect looking characters Sebastian picks up the pace and I reach for a tap shoe. A clop to the head with the metal of my Victorias could be life saving. And then I imagine the papers… ‘girl saves life with tap shoe’… followed by: ‘police are looking for a man with three dents and ‘Capezio’ stamped on forehead’…. but we make it out alive and enter the wider, breezier avenues … and the best part is that only moments before reaching home, Sebastian pulls out his camera and hands it to me…. so videos are possible and on their way for the next classes, jams and fetes.
