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May
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: Jordan Jackson @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £19.80 (inc. bf); £15.40 (inc. bf).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 21: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Jazz Classics with Rivkala @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Rivkala (vocals); Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass).
Thu 21: Paul Skerritt @ Angels' Share, St George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 2SX. 8:00pm. Free. Booking advised (0191 200 1975). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Fri 22: Paul Skerritt @ Market Place, Durham. From 12 noon. Free. Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Fri 22: Paul Edis Trio @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £9.00. Edis, Andy Champion, Steve Hanley.
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: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Hotel Gotham, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Fri 22: Paul Edis Trio @ St Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook. 7:30pm. £TBC. Edis, Andy Champion, Steve Hanley.
Sat 23: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Bywell Hall. 2:00pm. Northumberland County Show.
Sat 23: Paul Edis @ Core Music, Gilesgate, Hexham. 3:00pm. £12.00. A Core Music fundraiser, Hexham Jazz Weekender Day/Weekend ticket not applicable. Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sat 23: Blyth Big Band @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 6:30pm. £9.00., £5.00.
Sat 23: Paul Edis & Friends @ Musicwonders, Church Chare, Chester-le-Street. 7:00pm (6:30pm doors). £15.00. www.musicwonders.org. BYOB. SOLD OUT!
Sat 23: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ Queen’s Hall Hexham. 7:00pm. £13.50 (inc. bf). Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sat 23: TC & the Groove Family + Lagos to Longbenton @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.51., £14.33., £11.16.
Sat 23: Davina & the Vagabonds @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £22.00. + £1.50 bf.
Sat 23: Celebrating Wes Montgomery @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 8:15pm. £14.00., £12.00. Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sat 23: Chris Coull’s Porgy & Bess @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 9:30pm. £16.50 (inc. bf). Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Table reservations (0191 261 8000). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Sun 24: SwanNek @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. £11.50 (inc. bf). Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sun 24: Salty Dog @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free. Donations.
Sun 24: Ben Crosland’s Threeway @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:00pm. £13.50 (inc. bf). Line-up inc. Steve Waterman. Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Sun 24: Society Quartet @ Hilton Garden Inn, Sunderland. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Street Brass Band Bonanza: The Fanfare + Storytellers + Tenth Avenue Band @ The Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £10.00., £8.00.
Sun 24: Charlie Parr @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £17.50. Blues. Jumpin’ Hot Club.
Sun 24: Olly Styles Experience @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £7.00.
Sun 24: Finn-Keeble Group @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 8:15pm. £13.50 (inc. bf). Hexham Jazz Weekender. Feat. Jamil Sheriff.
Sun 24: Modern Vikings @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 9:30pm. £16.50 (inc. bf). Hexham Jazz Weekender.
Mon 25: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 26: Noel Dennis Sextet @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £12.00. A Miles Davis centenary concert (Davis b. 26. 5. 1926). Noel Dennis (trumpet); Harry Keeble (tenor sax); Dean Stockdale (piano); Mark Williams (guitar); Andy Champion (double bass); John Bradford (drums). SOLD OUT!
Tue 26: Lagos to Longbenton @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Mark Williams Trio @ Blaydon Jazz Club - May 18
Album review: Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band - Treasury Volume 3 (Turtle Bay Records)
Jazz on the Tyne Welcomes Alexia Gardner & the Hexham Jazz Weekender 2026
You can listen to the show anytime HERE.
Plus, you can request music for future programmes, pass on
news or leave feedback by emailing Colin at jazz.tyne.hive@gmail.com
or by heading to www.jazzonthetyne.org.
Monday, May 18, 2026
Julian Lage @ Royal Festival Hall – May 15
There’s something
about the walk along the South Bank towards the Royal
Festival Hall that makes it feel as though the evening has already begun
long before you reach your seat. London, in all of its colour and sound, slowly
unfolding around you like an overture. The Thames catching the last of the
early evening sun, the London Eye rotating
gently against a softening sky while, across the river, the newly restored Elizabeth Tower glistens gold in the fading
light. Overhead, triple sevens make their slow descent towards Heathrow Airport, banking low across the
skyline, while below by Festival Pier the rhythm of a reggae band drifts
upwards from an impromptu riverside performance that has stopped passers-by in
their tracks.
And somewhere in
all of that movement — the river traffic, the distant conversations, the hum of
trains arriving and departing across the city — Stephen Sondheim’s words
quietly come to mind: “Another hundred people just got off of the train…”
London carrying on exactly as London always does. Alive. Restless. Beautifully
chaotic.
Yet inside, another kind of listening waits.
Vince Dunn Quartet @ the Moor Club, Stockport - May 17
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Sunday night @ the Globe: QOW Trio - May 17
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Pronounced ‘cow’ from a tune by Dewey Redman, in case you were wondering. An evening of celebration in tha Toon as Newcastle score 3 for the first time, it seems, since Adam was a lad and from the same ‘Adam was a lad’ time scale we have, on stage, legendary drummer Spike (Michael to his mother) Wells and from a more recent era, Riley Stone-Lonergan, here along with Eddie Myer on bass and pleas to buy the new album they are touring The Rule of Three. The title track of which opens proceedings.
It rolls along nicely, mid-paced with an edge and lovely fluid runs from Stone-Lonergan, the others steady and solid behind him. The spare trio format throws all the attention on the sax, with Myer providing a prodding bass whilst Wells is on manoeuvres before an exchange of solos with Myer sharp and pointed, Wells bombing and snapping with delicate cymbal punctuations.
Cheltenham Jazz Festival: Camilla George @ Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, May 3
Camilla George (alto sax); Daniel Casimir (bass); Renato Paris (keyboards, vocals); Rod Youngs (drums)
Camilla George is one of the leading lights of the current generation of movers and shakers that emerged from the Tomorrows Warriors/Jazz Jamaica nexus led and guided by Gary Crosby and Janine Irons. (Well-deserved OBE recipients both). Of her band this afternoon, only Paris is unknown to me. Casimir brought his own large ensemble to Cheltenham last year. George is another of the current generation who look directly to their own personal African roots as a source of inspiration and energy for their work, more than they look to jazz’ roots in America.
Album review: De-Phazz - belooped (MPS)
That has always been the magic of De-Phazz.
Taking the legendary MPS catalogue — recordings tied to the immaculate sound of Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer and performances by artists like Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and George Duke — and threading them through De-Phazz’s unmistakable electro-organic aesthetic could easily have become heavy-handed. Instead, it feels strangely natural, as though these recordings had been waiting patiently for someone to open a different door into them.
The Kaberry Big Band @ The Seahorse, Whitley Bay - May 16
Sunday, May 17, 2026
The day the APPJG lights went out...
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