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September.
Thu 24: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 24: Castillo Nuevo Orquesta @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. £6.50. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 24: Arun Ghosh @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm (7:30pm doors). £21.05. (£22.00. on the door). A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 24: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00.
Fri 25: Mark Williams Trio @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 25: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 25: Get the Blessing + Dilettante @ The Cluny (Cluny 2), Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £18.00. + bf. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 25: Jazz Sabbath @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Sat 26: Adam Fairhall & Johnny Hunter: Play Mary Lou Williams @ The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 6:00pm. Free. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sat 26: John Pope Quintet + Urvashi @ The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £15.40. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sun 27: Salty Dog @ The Cluny. 12:30pm (doors). Free (donations).
Sun 27: Musicians Unlimited @ West Hartlepool RFC. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Zach Sewell-Lara Hopper Quintet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 27: Sun 27: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free. RESCHEDULED to Sunday 4 October.
Sun 27: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Alex Hitchcock Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £16.00., £14.00. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Mon 28: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 29: Tenderly: The Life & Times of Nat ‘King’ Cole @ Hepscott Parish Hall. 7:30pm. . £15.00., £12.00. (Early Bird advance ticket), £10.00. Off-Broadway production feat. Duane Forrest.
Tue 29: Red Kites Jazz @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 30: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 30: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 30: Tenderly: The Life & Times of Nat ‘King’ Cole @ The Hearth, Horsley. 7:30pm. £15.00., £12.00. (Early Bird advance ticket), £10.00. Off-Broadway production feat. Duane Forrest.
Wed 30: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 30: New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds + Juliana Day & Manon McCoy + Helen Anahita Wilson @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. A BBC Introducing-Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Album review: Clifford Jordan - Night of the Mark Vll (Time Traveller)
Brian Arthur Richardson (Oct. 11, 1933 - Aug. 31, 2026)
Brian was born in
Newcastle UK and went to Rutherford College to study engineering. He was evacuated to Lanercost near Brampton,
Cumbria during World War ll. He went on to be an apprentice with Parsons
Engineering of NewcastleCourtesy Chris
Perrin
He learned to play the
cornet and then the trombone with The Salvation Army. This led to him playing
in brass bands and he started his jazz career playing with local jazz bands
including the Clem Avery Jazzmen.
He later moved to Canada to work in the wine industry and then on to San Francisco where he established a successful calibration business. When he ‘retired’ he became a consultant and was still testing the structural integrity of the Golden Gate Bridge up to his 90th birthday.
RADIOPHONICX - Season 2026/27
BERLIN RADIO FESTIVAL 2026
I've just returned from the Berlin Radio Festival, where my audio short Nothing but hope was shortlisted for the MikroFlitzer competition. Truly inspired and uplifted by all the fantastic audio pieces and the enthusiastic audio makers, I am now looking forward to the second season of RADIOPHONICx, communal listening event at Cobalt studios.
RADIOPHONICX - Season 2026/27
Yes, we are back with more outstanding international audio plays and sound art.
RADIOPHONICx is the only event in the north east dedicated to international radio and sound art. Celebrating a 100 year old art form, which resulted directly from the invention of a new communication medium, the radio.
From October to January Cobalt Studios will be hosting RADIOPHONICx, the communal listening event, once a month on a Saturday afternoon from 2 till 4pm.
Lewis Watson Quartet @ the Lit & Phil: A John Coltrane Centenary Concert - Sept. 23
| Photo © John Lyons |
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
More Trane tomorrow - in the meantime...
The Lewis Watson Quartet's magnificent tribute to John Coltrane will be reviewed tomorrow. In the meantime log on to Roy Woodcock's three-part programme dedicated to JC himself on Roy's Blues and JazzTastic Mixcloud show..
The podcast link to the shows is HERE.
A word of warning - it works fine on my smartphone but not on my PC. Strange.
Let me know if it works for you. Lance
Stockport Jazz
Sunday 27th September 2026
8-10pm, doors open at 7.30pm
£5 entry on the door, all welcome
The Moor Club, 35 Heaton Moor Road, Stockport SK4 4PB (next to the Elizabethan PH)
Neil Yates Quintet @ Llandudno Jazz Club - Sept. 21
| © Richard Morris |
Neil Yates (trumpet, tenor sax); Antony Stevens (trumpet); Andrzej Baranek (piano); Grant Russell (double bass); Johnny Hunter (drums)
The concept for this concert, as explained by Neil Yates, was to have a band with two trumpets. There are a few albums that have explored this concept including Two Trumpets recorded by Art Farmer and Donald Byrd in 1956.
Neil is renowned for his jazz trumpet playing. Antony Stevens is better known for playing the sousaphone on which I last saw him play at this venue. However, he gave a very good account of himself on the trumpet remarking that,at age 18, he was a student of Neil Yates and now at age 42 he was playing Step Lightly - a number Neil had taught him 24 years ago! Antony is a member of the roving brass band The Stray Horns who specialise in bringing their music to all sorts of events such as weddings, parties etc all around the country with other prominent members such as Jamie Brownfield and Mike Smith.
Ben Crosland Quartet @ the Moor Club, Stockport - Sept. 20
Ben Crossland (bass guitar); Rod Mason (soprano/ tenor sax); Dean Stockdale (keyboards); Dave Tyas (drums).© Jeff Pritchett
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Lewis Watson Quartet @ Blaydon Jazz Club - Sept. 21
| © Roly Veitch |
Album review: Joe Lovano Paramount Quartet ft. Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano, and Will Calhoun (ECM)
Joe Lovano: (tenor/G mezzo soprano saxes, tarogato); Julian Lage (guitar); Asante Santi Debriano (double bass); Will Calhoun (drums). All compositions by Joe Lovano unless otherwise stated.
First Song (Charles Haden): A dreamy, plaintive, esoteric exploration on, I presume, the mezzo sop sax. followed by Lage in a similar mode.
Amsterdam: Lovano sticks with the soprano enjoying some interplay with Lage. Debriano has his say on bass and Calhoun paradiddles. Lage produces some harplike sounds on guitar.
The Call: The soprano sounds eerie, almost phantasmagoric. I checked that all the doors and windows were closed. A shot of the 'cup that cheers'* calmed me and I found myself drawn into the mysterious aura surrounding the track.
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- TJ Johnson Trio @ Jamboree, London - Sept. 9
- Album review: Visions Jazz Ensemble - Of The People
- R.I.P. Steve Gilbert
- Frank Griffith Nonet @ Morley Green Club, Mobberle...
- Album review: George Garzone - Themes For Good Fri...
- Alex Clarke with the Paul Edis Trio @ The Wheatshe...
- Album review: Aria – Rectify
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- Tonight @ the Globe - Nils Kavanagh Trio
- R.I.P. Brian Richardson (? - August 31, 2026)
- Album review: Ross Margitza Trio - Discovery (Self...
- R.I.P. Harry Brown (1974 - Sept. 3, 1926)
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
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- TRIO-SKW @ Swan and Chequers, Sandbach - August 30
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- Late Night Chicago Radio with Denny Farrell (Sept....
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- A few thoughts on Cassandra Wilson
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- Cassandra Wilson (1955 - Sept. 1, 2026)
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