Sarah Spencer revisits the States with her Transatlantic Band

Early this year, veteran reedwoman Sarah Spencer relocated permanently to her native England after nearly two decades in the United States. Over the past several years she had lived in Connecticut, but no matter whether gigging in London or Hartford, her music remains ever-faithful to old New Orleans. Sarah fronted her own Transatlantic Band at four concerts in New England and Upstate New York in September and October, and last month she herself marched in two New Orleans-style parade gigs at The Villages, an active adult community located a few miles northwest of Orlando. The Band On the afternoon of Sunday, September 17, Sarah primarily played her tenor sax as the Transatlantic combo played a concert hosted by the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse at Uriah’s restaurant in Liverpool, New York. The septet’s only other Brit, the brilliant Birmingham-born trombonist Mike Owen, is leader of Scarlette’s Serenaders and the Woodland Jazz Band, which pays tribute to his idol, Kid Ory. The venerable Fred Vigorito