Ten-year-old drummer Tosh Kachan took it in his stride when he was asked to stand in last week for Plan B Modern Jazz Quartet’s resident drummer, Noel Bowden at a gig at the Harbour Wine Bar, Noosa Harbour Marina.
While Noel was occupied as musical director for A Chorus Line Tosh took his spot, handling everything from standard jazz Bossa Novas to swings by Miles Davis with great skill.
Though he had never heard of most on the songs in the set he didn’t miss a beat after a little coaching from pianist Brian Ford.
The audience was enthralled with the boy drummer from Noosa Heads who could barely see over the top of his cymbals and enthused to the personal touch that he brought to the band’s performance.
Dave Merry (tenor/saxophone/flute) and Ken Gibson (bass) agreed that Tosh’s sense of tempo was “very keen with no hint of fading”.
Tosh has been studying drums with Ross Farrant at Drum Hero Drum School and has been playing drums for the past four years in the school ensembles at Good Shepherd Lutheran College under Joshua Appleby and now OJ Newcomb.
Tosh has his own rock band called “The Myths” and has recently been asked to join the Jazz Band at Good Shepherd Lutheran College.
The Myths, the youngest band in Noosa, will be performing at the Noosa Festival of Surfing on Main Beach on Sunday 11 March at 6pm.
