Smoking Chutney lived up to it's name at the Sol's sizzling Thursday Night Jazz session on the 6h of September. Singer/harp player Pratish Motwane was the special guest flown in from Mumbai to spice up an already cooking Smoking Chutney, featuring Shane Ballentine on guitar, Sancho Menezes on keyboards, Colin D'Cruz on bass and Bosco D'Souza on drums. The crowd turnout was fantastic as usual and included quite a few regular Thursday Night Jazzers. A smokin' jazz-rock instrumental set the stage for front man Pratish to take control of both the band and the crowd and he did it with flair. A bluesman to the core, Pratish took the blues struck crowd on a journey through various genres of blues through Chicago, Delta, New Orleans, Boogie Woogie and not surprisingly, since he spent fourteen years in America performing with some great blues bands there, including a stint with blues legend Buddy Guy. Sol's Thursday Night Jazz sessions has become 'the' live music event in Goa.
