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January 2025
Sat 18: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 18: Alter Ego + Jamie Toms/Graham Don Duo @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Sat 18: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Repas 7 by Night, West St., Berwick TD15 1AS. 7:30pm. Free. Album launch gig.
Sat 18: Delta Prophets @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 19: Glenn Miller Orchestra UK @ Glasshouse, Gateshead. 3:00pm. ‘Glenn Miller & the Rat Pack Era’.
Sun 19: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 19: Spilt Milk @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:15-7:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Sun 19: Tenement Jazz Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 19: Nick Ross Orchestra @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm.
Sun 19: Freight Train (Tobin/Noble/Clarvis) @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 19: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 20: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 21: ???
Wed 22: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 22: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 22: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 22: Pasadena Roof Orchestra @ Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Thu 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone. 1:00pm. Free. Fortnightly.
Thu 23: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Obituaries 2024.
Thu 23: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:30-6:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Thu 23: Pedal Point Trio @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 24: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Creakin’ Bones & the Sunday Dinners @ Lindisfarne Social Club, Wallsend. 9:00pm. Admission: TBC. Jazz, blues , jump jive, rock ‘n’ roll.
Reviewers wanted
Friday, January 17, 2025
Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits For No Man @ the Lit & Phil - Jan. 17
Pete Tanton and the Cuban Heels @ the Prohibition Bar, Newcastle - Jan. 16
© Russell |
Tonight it was Cuban Heels on other days it could have been the Chet Set or the Riviera Quartet. They're interchangeable, all featuring Tanton's blistering trumpet and his cajoling vocals over various, often Latin, but rarely Cuban either geographically or geometrically, rhythms. It didn't matter. We were there to enjoy ourselves and that's what those in the well-attended room did. The music inspired some couples to dance - or maybe it was to keep warm!
Thursday, January 16, 2025
DVD review: Ella & Basie - The Perfect Match
The Paul Smith Trio: Paul Smith (piano); Keeter Betts (bass); Mickey Roker (drums)
Count Basie & his Orchestra: Count Basie (piano); Freddie Green (guitar); Keeter Betts (bass); Mickey Roker (drums); Pete Minger, Sonny Cohn, Paul Cohen, Ray Brown (trumpets); Bootie Wood, Bill Hughes, Mel Wanzo, Dennis Wilson (trombones); Bobby Plater, Danny Turner (alto sax); Eric Dixon, Kenny Hing (tenor sax); Charlie Fowlkes (baritone sax)
You know how it is. Some days you are walking along, minding your business, when, inside a charity shop, you spot a DVD of Ella and Basie at Montreux in 1979! That's what happened to me today and, to make it even sweeter, the asking price was 20p! I didn't haggle, it was cash on the barrelhead. Transaction completed, it was home Lance and don't spare the horses.
Album review: Barb Jungr and her trio - Hallelujah on Desolation Row (Absolute)
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Rossano Sportiello: Live at the Flat in Greenwich Village (#123) - Jan. 14
Lily Dior Quartet @ Burford Jazz, Warwick Hall, Burford, Oxfordshire - Jan. 10
The display stands for
Burford Jazz promises “Top quality live jazz every month with an accent on
entertainment” so let’s see if that promise is met. Lily Dior, in turn, told us
that she would be singing all wonderful old standards with her twist on them,
and, in fairness, she did that.
She opens with My Foolish Heart, an easy grooving intro to the night’s entertainment, with rolling mallets and glowing guitar chords, with Montgomery-ish, spring-loaded, single notes soloing from Cook. Angel Eyes, as a Latin shuffle follows. It’s mainstream jazz but Dior puts herself into it; she has a flexible voice of some corners and angles. She seems to thrive on stage as if it’s her Friday, end-of-the-week release as much as it is the audience’s. There’s a strong hint of Cleo Laine, but with less scatting. Jeffries adds a bouncing bass solo.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Album review: Emily Masser Quintet - Songs With My Father (self-released)
Press release: Ronnie Scott’s Announces New Musical Instrument Amnesty to Support Aspiring Musicians in the UK and Beyond
Raymond MacDonald & Andy Champion @ The Globe, Newcastle - Jan. 13
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- Just in case you hadn't noticed ...
- Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits For No Man @ the Lit & P...
- Pete Tanton and the Cuban Heels @ the Prohibition ...
- DVD review: Ella & Basie - The Perfect Match
- Album review: Barb Jungr and her trio - Hallelujah...
- Rossano Sportiello: Live at the Flat in Greenwich ...
- Lily Dior Quartet @ Burford Jazz, Warwick Hall, Bu...
- Album review: Emily Masser Quintet - Songs With My...
- Press release: Ronnie Scott’s Announces New Musica...
- Raymond MacDonald & Andy Champion @ The Globe, New...
- Johnny Staccato - E01 (The Naked Truth)
- Sunday night @ The Globe, Newcastle: Jack Pearce Q...
- Ken Marley Quartet plays the Benny Carter Songbook...
- Martin Hummel (Feb. 2, 1955 - Jan. 10, 2025)
- The Mark Toomey Quartet @ Dorman's Jazz Club, Midd...
- From JRR to Tyneside - Jan 12 then March 2 & Apri...
- Album review: Meredith d'Ambrosio - Midnight Mood ...
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Laurie Holloway MBE (March 31, 1938-Jan. 9, 2025)
- Press release: Jack Pearce Quintet @ the Globe - S...
- New single from Knats
- Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar - Jan. 9
- Album review: Dayna Stephens - Hopium (Contagious ...
- Film review: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat @ Tynesid...
- Album review: Glebe – Gaudi (ECN/Propermusic)
- The Jazz Cavern on Pure Jazz Radio - Latest
- Album review: Arild Anderson – Landloper (ECM)
- R.I.P. George Robinson
- Press release: Copasetic Foundation's new year pro...
- Press release: Fergus McCreadie and corto.alto joi...
- Press release: JazzLeeds Spring Jazz Programme 2025
- Press release: Subterranean explorations 1 @ the G...
- Michel Legrand all week on Radio 3
- Richard Iles Trio @ the Moor Club, Heaton Moor, St...
- Peter Gunn (1989 movie/DVD)
- Album review: John Stein - Next Gen, Jazz for my G...
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Yamaha strikes a chord in North Shields (Jan. 5)
- Album review: Towner Galaher Organ Group - Brother...
- Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club - Jan. 3
- Album review: Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band ...
- Album review: Edison Herbert - All I Need
- Rossano Sportiello: Live at the Flat in Greenwich ...
- Album review: Greg Abate - Road to Forever (Whalin...
- Album review: Xhosa Cole - On a Modern Genius Vol....
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