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November
Wed 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 06: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 06: The Horne Section’s Hit Show @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 06: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 07: Jazz Appreciation North East/Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘George - named musicians, vocalists & composers (Chisholm, Duke, Lewis, Shearing, Benson, Melly, Gershwin et al)’.
Thu 07: Aki Remally: The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Remally (guitar, vocals); Fraser Urquhart (piano); Tom Wilkinson (bass); Max Popp (drums).
Thu 07: Rat Pack Live @ Whitley Bay Playhouse. 7:30pm.
Thu 07: Mo Scott @ The Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:30pm. Free.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. Guest band night with the new Pensacola Boulevard: Josh Bentham (trumpet!); Donna Hewitt (clarinet); Ron Smith (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Mark Hawkins (drums); Django ZaZou (trombone); Vicky Jackson (vocals).
Fri 08: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 08: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 08: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Corbridge. 7:00pm.
Fri 08: TC & the Groove Family + Swannek + Knats @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Sat 09: Moscow Drug Club @ Hamsterley Village Hall, Co. Durham DL13 3QF. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Sat 09: Anth Purdy @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. ‘Swing Jazz Guitar’. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: The New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free. A ‘second Sunday in the month’ residency.
Sun 10: Panharmonia @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £6.00.
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Jude Murphy, Steve Chambers & Sid White @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: Moscow Drug Club @ Lesbury Village Hall, nr. Alnwick NE66 3PP. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Sun 10: SH#RP Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 11: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Graham Hardy’s Eclectic Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 12: Matthew Forster Quartet @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm.
Tue 12: Phil’s Elastic Band @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Free, but ticketed, book online.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2024
The Classic Jazz Party: Friday evening jam session @ the Village Hotel, North Tyneside - Nov. 1
Ed Kainyek Quartet w. Rachel Howells @ the Moor Club, Heaton Moor, Stockport - Nov. 3
© Jeff Pritchard |
This was my fourth visit to the Moor Club's Sunday evening jazz nights and one thing I’ve learned is that if you want to get a good seat then get there early. By 8:30pm the room was filling up nicely with plenty of jazz fans that I recall from the Railway as well as a few newcomers which was great to see. I was pleased to note that, just right of the bar, was a poster of the late great Dexter Gordon - the atmospheric one by Herman Leonard with smoke everywhere. I have the very same picture at home but it is in a heavy frame so it just stands against the wall. Paul said to the audience This is a no smoking room by the way which I thought was amusing.
The Classic Jazz Party: Friday evening @ the Village Hotel, North Tyneside - Nov. 1
Preview: The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook is coming to Gosforth Civic Theatre (Thursday Nov. 7)!!!
At Gosforth Civic Theatre tomorrow (Thurs. 7) it's the last date of the Aki Remally-Fraser Urquhart tour celebrating the music of Gil Scott-Heron.
Fixtures on the Scottish jazz scene, Remally (guitar, vocals) and Urquhart (piano) have been touring their Gil Scott-Heron project as a quartet with the ace rhythm section of bassist Tom Wilkinson and drummer Max Popp. Their focus is on the life and music of poet, composer, jazz musician and pioneering rapper, Gil Scott-Heron.
Some of us were at Riverside circa 1990 when the legendary American appeared at the 'old place' on Melbourne Street. For those of us who weren't, Thursday evening at Gosforth Civic Theatre is the closest we'll get to experiencing the life and times of Gil Scott-Heron. Book now at: www.gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk
Guy Davis @ the Witham, Barnard Castle, - Nov. 2
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Album review: Bill Frisell, Kit Downes, Andrew Cyrille - Breaking The Shell (Red Hook Records)
What do you expect
from an instrumental line up like that? Guitar, organ drums – a classic organ
trio. Surely, a bit of the old funked-up electric boogaloo is in store? Not
this time kids. This is less predictable, more stripped back, though not
laid-back. It’s intense, angular and unlike recent works by Frisell and Downes.
For a start, the organ isn’t electric; the album was recorded using the Church
organ at St. Luke in The Fields in Greenwich Village, New York.
It opens with an ominous low drone and some delicate tracery of notes on the organ, little more than aural scratches; the drone fades and Frisell steps into the gap whilst Cyrille skirts around the proceedings, adding some propulsive skitterings. Second track, Untitled 23, is all angles from Frisell, ably supported by rolls and crashes and more skittering from the drummer. Frisell’s voice on the guitar rises and stops with a melancholy fall, he questions and probes and Cyrille fills in the colours in between.
Sinatra @ Capitol: Part one
Afternoon Jazz @ Saisons, Burton Road Didsbury: Richard Iles Trio - Nov. 3
© Phil Portus |
After such a great gig by Greg Abate and his amazing musicians at Cheltenham's Victory Club on Friday, I was not expecting much from this, my first visit to the Saisons, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the music.
The venue is small and has seating outside which was already occupied when I arrived by taxi just in time for the 3pm start. There are no buses running at all in Handforth on Sundays and you are lucky if any of the trains are not cancelled.
Saisons is in West Didsbury and is very close to where the Midland Hotel was once situated and was the scene of many legendary jazz encounters. I think the pub is still there but has a new name. The famous Alan Hare Big Band used to play every week and that band was known world wide. Yep, Didsbury was buzzing back then!
Press release: Pete Allen Jazz Band -Touring dates (down south) November 2024
Press release: Orchestras celebrate Duke royally across Scotland
© Shawn Pearce |
“Duke Ellington has been an inspiration to musicians and composers across the musical spectrum for almost 100 years,” says SNJO founder and musical director, saxophonist Tommy Smith. “The breadth of his writing encompasses songs that were the pop music of the day and hugely descriptive suites that compare with works in the classical canon in terms of ambition. It’s wonderful to witness young players from the TikTok era finding their way into playing jazz through Ellington as generations before have done.”
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