TODAY MONDAY MAY 28.

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON
- Crescent Club, 1 Huddleston, Cullercoats. NE30 4QS. 1:00pm. Free. 0191 2530242.
A fun filled afternoon of traditional jazz.
VIEUX CARRE JAZZMEN - Corner House Hotel, Heaton Rd., Heaton, Newcastle NE6 5RP. £3. 8:30pm.
A fun filled evening of traditional jazz.
THE BLAYDON ACES - Cherry Tree Restaurant, 9 Osborne Rd., Jesmond NE2 2AE.. 0191 2399924. Free.7:30pm.

Good food, traditional north east songs with a difference by Roly Veitch and James Birkett.

JAZZTONES - Darlington Forum. 8:00pm. Free. 01325 363135.

Swinging new band on the Teesside scene.

Sunday, 30 January 2011

Skywalkin' @ The Central Bar.

Byron Baddoo (vcls), Kenny Kirsopp (ten/alt), Steve Coady (gtr), Keith Nicholson (bs), Dave Morton(dms).
The Skywalkers have been around for a long time and they are none the worse for that.
This afternoon, at the Central Bar, they kept the blues flag flying with some dynamic numbers.
This is no ordinary blues band - this is that and a whole lot more.
Baddoo is as baaaaad a bluesman as you're ever gonna meet this side of Sunset and Vine.
Byron hollers like he was born cross the tracks in the stockyards of Chicago. He's a bluesman - full stop.
However, although I dug his blues, I felt the patter overran. The Fufu gag went well past its sell by!
My old mate Kenny blew from a blue haze and played some great bar-walkin tenor and Louis Jordon alto. In fact a lot of the material was updated Louis Jordan and they don't come much better than that. Big round for Steve who did some fantastic guitar business.
The rhythm is great and infectious - by the closing number the floor was awash with gals shaking it around a bit!
Wow!
Lance

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