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Bebop Spoken There

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The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Sunday, July 08, 2018

Spats Langham's Hot Fingers with Emily Campbell @ Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club - July 7

Spats Langham (guitar, banjo, ukulele, vocals); Danny Blyth (guitar, mandolin, clarinet, bass clarinet, harmonica); Malcolm Sked (double bass, sousaphone); Emily Campbell (vocals) 
(Review by Russell)
Darlington, first Saturday in the month, you're in St Augustine's and on this blue sky day there is not one but two games in town. First up, the ever popular Spats Langham playing a lunchtime concert at the long-running Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club followed by the little matter of England v Sweden.
A 12:30 kick off for Langham's Hot Fingers, three o'clock in Russia. Hmm...it would be wise for Spats to take a shorter interval, thus the second set would finish a few minutes before the quarter-final showdown. And so it was...
Bing Crosby to Fats Waller by way of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Langham's lovingly compiled treasure trove of tunes probably runs into the hundreds thus enabling him to surprise even his most ardent fans with something new.   
When the Folks High Up Do the Mean Low Down to My Sweet Virginia (Al Bowlly!) to McKinney's Cotton Pickers (There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder), Tom Langham performs with the assuredness of the virtuoso musician and classic jazz authority that he most certainly is. 

The 'Hot Fingers' comprise three musicians - Langham, Danny Blyth playing guitar, mandolin, clarinet. bass clarinet and harmonica, and anchorman Malcolm Sked alternating between string bass and sousaphone. Joining the boys to sing a few numbers was the Cotswolds' Canary, aka Emily Campbell. Ms. Campbell's secure lower register delivery featured first on Chick Webb's Take Another Guess then, with Blyth on bass clarinet, Moanin' Low followed up by a happy Get Happy (Spats doing the tricky guitar bits, Blyth, now on guitar,  supplying the rock steady rhythm). 

Ukulele Ike is a favourite of Langham, the music tremendous, the anecdotes equally so...Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) was the voice of Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio)! What's more, the movie's success made Edwards' fortune a second time over, which he promptly blew a second time! 

Alex Hill's Delta Bound lives on in the hands of the Hot Fingers (and Tuba Skinny), as does the inimitable, Fender Strat-toting Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Who Rolled the Stone Away? the first of two from the formidable Tharpe, she would later close the show. 

Fats Waller's salutary (he'd had a spell in the slammer) Keeping Out of Mischief Now fulfilled the Dr Jazz quotient, Freddy Taylor's Blue Drag the viper jazz element, and the popular novelty song - Lena from Palestina - amused all present. And so, the England XI was about to do duty. Spats and co left us with more from Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't it Rain? Not on England's parade, it didn't. 
Russell

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