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Donovan Haffner ('Best Newcomer' 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards): ''I got into jazz the first time I picked up a saxophone!" - Jazzwise Dec 25/Jan 26
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This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)
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18146 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 24 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Jan. 7), 24
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JANUARY 2026
Fri 09: The House Trio @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 09: Nauta @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Trio: Jacob Egglestone, Jamie Watkins, Bailey Rudd.
Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Warren James & the Lonesome Travellers @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 09: The Blue Kings @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv.). All-star band.
Sat 10: Mark Toomey Quintet @ St Peter’s Church, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:30pm. £12.00. (inc. pie & peas). Tickets from: 07749 255038.
Sun 11: New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 12: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.
Tue 13: Milne Glendinning Band @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Coquetdale Jazz.
Tue 13: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 14: Jam Session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 15: Mark Toomey Quartet @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Free. Quartet + guest Paul Donnelly (guitar).
Reviewers wanted
Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog.
Look forward to hearing from you. Lance
Friday, January 16, 2009
Stan Wilde's Wildcats in 1951 from Colin Aitchison
Hi Lance,
I found this very interesting recording of Stan Wilde & The Wilde Cats plus a photo from a 1951 Northern Sound Studio session and decided to put a video together, the song is Lonesome Road and is quite a nice version, interesting no bass, but it works. A great bit of jazz history from the North East, in those wonderful days gone by...
Cheers
Colin
Stan Wilde And The Wilde Cats 1951 Recording Of Lonesome Road
Stan Wilde & The Wilde Cats 1951 Recording Of Lonesome Road, This band was a UK based band in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the early 1950's, the band line up is:Stan Wilde (Piano - leader) Hughie Aitchison (Trumpet) Ronnie Maclean (Trombone) Brian Clark (Clarinet) Alan Shipley (Clarinet) Alan Brown (Guitar) Joe Ward (Drums) note there is no bass on the recording, and it was recorded on 25th, June, 1951, at the Northern Sound Studios, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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2 comments :
Ah what memories! I worked with Ronnie and Hughie (your dad) in Windows and Ronnie and yourself in Newcastle Big Band. Great times.
Brian Clark was a tragic figure after he'd been beaten up going home - such an awful thing to happen to such a gentle man.
I remember Alan Brown from the Panama Jazzmen and I recall the Stan Wilde Wildcats from possibly Nelson St or the Arcade.
Thanks for sharing this with us Colin.
HI Lance,
Yes Windowns, I uesd to spend whole afternoons in the jazz department, when it was in the basement, waiting to go home with Dad, or Ronnie & Dad rushing off to play a gig somewhere. I must have been around 15 yrs of age, I can still picture My Dad, Ronnie & yourself, behind that long counter, that must have been in those days the best jazz record department in the whole of the North East, you were all like walking discographies learned so much about jazz down there, and was up to date on the latest releases.
Happy Times, wish I could turn the clock back...
Colin Aitchison
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