Celebrated American jazz trio the David Becker Tribune enchanted a good-sized audience at the Juice Bar, in Parnell's Windsor Castle Pub, last night.
The show opener, guitar virtuoso Tama Renata, who commands a cult following here in Auckland, would have been a hard act for anyone to follow for anyone - even the famous international Grammy Awards-nominated ensemble.
David, brother of Bruce (one of the best drummers that ever lived) and stellar German bass player Wolfgang "Bolle" Diekmann, enchanted the gathered with tracks from Batavia.
This is an album influenced by experiences of Becker brothers' mother and her family in Indonesia, recounting their internment in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II.
Batavia was voted one of the Best World Music recordings of 2010 by World Music Central.org.
