Small Business... Bread Man Walking
I knew Gerry Godley reasonably well when I worked and ran the Jazz Section of Tower Records in Dublin circa 1998 until about 2002. It was a period in where there was a sense of a revival or new wave of jazz musicians coming through after public interest had possibly dwindled in the art form in the 1990s. Gerry was a sax player, tenor and baritone mainly and he cut a rather dashing and handsome figure on the instrument back then. People actually bought cds, Ray Comiskey was reviewing his jazz album of the week in the Irish Times and Gerry took notice of the Arts Council Funding and was heavily involved in founding the Improvised Music Company and began to utilise his other talents of organising musicians and concerts at home and abroad. Vicar Street had a little smaller venue called 'The Shelter' and I remember being seated next to the ambassador to Sweden while listening to the hottest trio coming through Europe called the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. ...
