You can spend mega bucks on a top of the range saxophone, more hard earned cash on a mouthpiece and ligature but, at the end of the day, it all boils down to a bit of bamboo that may or may not do what the manufactures say it will do! Lance
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May 2023
Tue 30: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 30: Big Chris Barber Band @ Whitley Bay Playhouse. 7:30pm.
Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
June
Thu 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 01: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Donations.
Thu 01: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 01: Jake Leg Jug Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 01: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: Joseph Carville Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 02: Claire Martin & Her Trio @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm. £25.00., £20.00. Feat. Jim Mullen, Alex Garnett & Jeremy Brown.
Fri 02: Guy Davis + Michael Littlefield & Scott Taylor @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. Doors 7:30pm. Blues double bill.
Fri 02: Anders Ingram @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club. Country blues. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sat 03: Newcastle Record Fair @ Northumbria University, Newcastle NE8 8SB. 10:00am-3:00pm. Admission: £2.00.
Sat 03: Pedigree Jazz Band @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 03: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Sue Ferris. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 03: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sun 04: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 04: Central Bar Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. £5.00. The Central Bar Quintet plays Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus. Featuring Lewis Watson.
Sun 04: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 04: Struggle Buggy + Michael Littlefield @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Acoustic blues.
Sun 04: Swinging at the Cotton Club: Harry Strutters' Hot Rhythm Orchestra @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 04: Richard Jones Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 05: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Monday, May 29, 2023
Album review: Javon Jackson - "With Peter Bradley"
Jazz and the movies have had a chequered career - Anatomy of a Murder and Lift to the Scaffold are a couple of the better ones that spring to mind. However, With Peter Bradley, going by the TRAILER, this 90 minute documentary looks to be something extra special and, even if it isn't, the soundtrack alone will be worth price of the popcorn and so much more if it ever hits your local fleapit (those were the days!)
Preview: Swinging at the Cotton Club, The Fire Station, Sunderland (June 4)
In Tune this bank holiday Monday (May 29) with Kitchman & Heinen
Sunday night @ the Globe: Matt Anderson Quartet - May 28
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Sugaray Rayford @ the Fire Station, Sunderland - May 26
And he could sing too, the best comparison I could come up with was Eddie Levert of the O’Jays, one of the very best, though playing an album by bluesman Lucky Peterson on the way home also showed similarities, which was a happy coincidence.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
The Whitley Bay Carnival 2023 - May 28
Ben Sidran Quartet @ Cafe Central, Madrid May 23
Ben Sidran (piano); Bill McHenry (saxo tenor); Billy Peterson (contrabaja); Leo Sidran (bateria)
I guess I am one of the few people who still actually buys a hard copy of the Lonely Planet guide when I am going on holiday, although I am sure it is available as an app (or something similar) for more tech savvy members of the human race. However, the title of the guides must be one of the most out of date concepts imaginable (due in part, of course, to its own success). No doubt the Sunday Times has already had articles listing the ten most ‘lonely’ places to have a wild party and I am sure if I took a Ryanair flight to the dark side of the moon the first person I would bump into would be one of the Mooneys who lived in the next street to where I grew up in Dublin.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time - Sundays 6.30-8.00 pm (repeat Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 28/05/23. (Repeated Tuesday 30/05/23)
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.
Requests from the Windy City Weatherbirds Gig: Sauter - Finegan Orchestra, Nellie Lutcher, Stan Getz/Gilberto, Eddie Condon All Stars, Blind Blake, Townes Van Zandt, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Tadd Dameron Octet, Charlie Parker, Jack Teagarden, Andy Schumm,
Herbie Hancock.
What’s happening in the NE: Chris Barber, Harry Strutters.
Tony Eales pick: Roger Neumann Instant Heat.
Requests: Stan Getz And Kenny Barron, Borealis/Joe Steels.
JazzTimes - May issue
Melody Maker, Metronome, Jazz Journal, Jazz Monthly, Crescendo, DownBeat, Jazzwise, JazzTimes are but some of those publications who have provided the words and the photos to the Holy Grail of jazz.
However, in all my years of reading jazz lit., not one of them comes within a bebop mile of the controversy that the May issue of JazzTimes will stir. Indeed the new regime's inaugural April issue's Wayne Shorter obituary resulted in most of the old guard being shown the door - a bit like some recent UK government shenanigans!
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- Album review: Javon Jackson - "With Peter Bradley"
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- The Whitley Bay Carnival 2023 - May 28
- Ben Sidran Quartet @ Cafe Central, Madrid May 23
- Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time - Sundays 6.30-8.00 pm (...
- JazzTimes - May issue
- House of the Black Gardenia @ Hoochie Coochie - Ma...
- Tom Remon & Alex Ho @ Prohibition Bar - May 26
- Album Review: Ellie Martin – Verdant
- Album review: Zoe Francis - Somewhere in the Night
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- Customs House Big Band touching base on June 16
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- Preview: Pete Tanton's Cuba Libre - Prohibition Ba...
- Farewell to Bill Lee - bassist & composer (23 July...
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- Everything All Together All at Once at the N’Awlin...
- Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ the Black S...
- Album review: Noah Haidu - Standards
- Trombone players wanted up Blyth way
- Press release: Tom Ollendorff - Open House
- Preview: The Big Chris Barber Band @ Whitley Bay P...
- Preview: Lindsay Hannon sings Tom Waits (May 23)
- The encore.
- Kira Kira @ the Lit & Phil (Jazz North East) - May 19
- Sunday Night @ the Globe: Giles Strong Quartet - M...
- Tonight @ the Globe
- Jazz on the Tyne – What’s New & What’s On, late Ma...
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- The Ochre Trio on Houndgate, Darlington - May 20
- The Windy City Weatherbirds @ Darlington New Orlea...
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- More from Congo Square
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- Album review: Jeff Coffin - Look For Water
- UK Guitarist To Release Soaring Suite Of Powerful ...
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- Album review: Tatiana Eve-Marie - Two at the Most
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- Album review: Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra - Th...
- The Black Swan jam session - May 16
- Sunday Night @ the Globe: Eternal Triangle + Andy ...
- Keb Mo @ New Orleans
- No more Norton for me
- Album review: Duncan Eagles – Narrations (Ropeadope)
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- The Lewis Watson Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon...
- Michael Young Trio @ the Engine Room, Sunderland -...
- Tonite!!! The Lewis Watson Quartet @ The Black Bul...
- An evening of jazz and good food on Monday May 15 ...
- Dave Lynane Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - May 14
- Hexham Jazz Festival: Claire Martin & Jamie Safir ...
- Hexham Jazz Festival: The Wild Cat @ The Forum Cin...
- Dead and Company Live in New Orleans
- Pete Tanton’s Chet Set @ St James’ and St Basil’...
- More Jack Goodwin/VCJ
- Hexham Jazz Festival: Jo Harrop + Freddie Benedict...
- The Eurovision Go As You Please Song Contest
- R.I.P. Jack Goodwin.
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- Dee Dee Bridgewater @ New Orleans
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- Album review: Anthony E. Nelson Jr. - Swinging Sunset
- Minds blown in New Orleans!
- Jacob Egglestone's Final Recital @ Newcastle Unive...
- Irma Thomas @ New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
- Dean Stockdale livestreaming from Matt & Phred's -...
- Bailey Rudd's Final Recital @ Newcastle University...
- Farewell to a friend...
- Funkin' at the Festival
- Identity parade
- West Coast Octet @ the Railway, Stockport - May 9
- More from our man in New Orleans
- Bublé photos from night two at the Utilita
- Meanwhile, down in Louisiana ...
- Album review: Jonny Mansfield Quintet – The Air In...
- RIP Chris Strachwitz
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- Album review: Joshua Jaswon - Polar Waters
- In Tune with Emma Smith (Radio 3)
- Sunday Night @ the Globe: Andrea Vicari Trio - May 7
- Preview: Hexham Jazz Festival (May 12-14)
- Way down the Mississippi with Steve T
- Mike Hall Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - May 7
- The Central Bar Quintet @ The Central Bar, Gateshe...
- Richie Emmerson/Kevin Eland Quintet @ Dorman's Jaz...
- Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time - Sundays 6.30-8.00 pm (...
- Central Bar on Sunday (that's today, May 7)!
- Cheltenham Jazz on BBC Four (Sunday 8:15pm)
- Jack Wilkins (June 4, 1944 - May 5, 2023)
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