February 2025
Tue 04: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, North St., Ferryhill DL17 8HX. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 04: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Ben Phillips, Paul Grainger, Bailey Rudd.
Tue 04: Dilutey Juice + Life Aquatics Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Wed 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 05: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 05: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 06: Lewis Watson Quartet @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 06: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Latin jazz/top-rated dance bands.
Thu 06: Rose Room @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 06: Mostly Moonlight @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Helen Barber (vocals) & Alex Moon (piano).
Thu 06: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. Guests: Richie Emmerson (tenor sax); Donna Hewitt (alto sax); Kevin Eland (trumpet); Graham Thompson (keys); Ron Smith (bass). 8:30pm. Free. A Tees Hot Club promotion. The session is now monthly, first Thursday in the month.
Fri 07: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 07: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 07: James Birkett & Emma Fisk @ Old Lowlight, Clifford’s Fort, North Shields NE30 1JE. 7:00pm. £15.00. + bf. www.oldlowlight.co.uk. SOLD OUT!
Fri 07: Stuart Turner Trio @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Jazz, blues, Americana etc.
Fri 07: Dean Stockdale Quartet @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Fri 07: Rose Room @ Wylam Institute. 8:00pm. £19.67.
Fri 07: John Rowland Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 08: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 12:30-2:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 08: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 08: Milne Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 08: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Sat 08: Anth Purdy @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. ‘Swing Jazz Guitar’.
Sat 08: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra event. All welcome.
Sun 09: Glenn Miller & Big Band Spectacular @ The Forum, Billingham. 3:00pm.
Sun 09: The New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 09: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 09: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 09: Tom Remon & Mark Williams @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 09: Rod Oughton’s Tomorrow’s New Quartet with Ben van Helder @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Deschanel Gordon.
Sun 09: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 10: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
5 comments :
I first met Chris when I returned to the Uk in 1983 after ten years or so working overseas. When I told him I wanted to start a band, he very kindly put me in touch with some like-minded individuals; when we thought we were ready to appear in public, Chris was generous with advice on venues, gig fees and so on; over the next twenty-six years or so, as I continued with the band and subsequently also took up the promotion of traditional jazz, he was unfailingly helpful with advice, publicity and encouragement. In the last few years, we worked together on the Arts Council's Jazz Strategy Group for the North East, and I was continually reminded of Chris' broad appreciation for and in-depth knowledge of jazz styles that ranged across virtually the whole spectrum. As promoter, educator, writer, critic, facilitator and all-round force for good in furthering the jazz cause in this region and further afield, he will be greatly missed, but leaves us a rich and varied heritage by which to remember him.
Mike Durham
Very sad news. Just echoing Mike's comments I would like to say Chris was always totally supportive of our jazz activity at Blaydon - for example he would phone regularly for details and ensure events were put in the listings and he was always so helpful and encouraging. Chris has worked tirelessly for the benefit of jazz music.
Roly
Hi Lance
I first met Chris when I went along to a Jazz North East concert at the Corner House. He gave me a warm welcome and I became a regular at JNE gigs. I soon learned that Chris was a walking encyclopedia of the history of jazz. He was, quite simply, a very nice man.
Russell
I first met Chris in the late 1970s after I succumbed to pressure from my features editor to write a new jazz column - not because I knew much about the music but because I was the only journalist on the Evening Chronicle who liked jazz.
Someone suggested I start by meeting Chris Yates and he provided me with topics for the first column - the then pivotal role of the Corner House, Heaton, and the impressive amount of jazz talent in the region.
At that early stage I was able to keep tapping into his immense knowledge of jazz to help with the necessary rapid expansion of my own.
For the next 17 years of the column, which soon included blues, he was one of the key contributors and I always like him, not only for his passion for the music, but as a genuine and concerned person.
Aware of the importance of pre-publicity for Jazz North East promotions he would almost invariably include in his letters to me the description in capital letters: A VERY SPECIAL EVENT, usually underlined more than once. And, of course, all the big names he presented were special.
Soon after I first met him someone told me, perhaps he himself, that after arriving in the North-East from elsewhere he complained to Jazz North East about something they'd done or hadn't done. All right, he was told, why not join us and ensure that we operate to your satisfaction. So he did.
As well as his key role in Jazz North East presentations and in the commissioning of works by, as I recall, Stan Tracey and Ian Carr, Chris regularly lectured on jazz. Only recently a friend who attended a series of his talks told me how impressed he was and how useful they had been.
Mike Jamieson
I can only echo all of the sentiments left in the previous four comments. My own appreciation can be found here:
http://africpepperbird.blogspot.com/2009/12/chris-yates-rip-with-references-to.html
It only scratches the surface and barely does him justice, but what else is there to say?
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