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Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

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Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

16401(and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 281 of them this year alone and, so far, 78 this month (April 27).

From This Moment On ...

April

Mon 29: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 29: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30-8:30pm. Free. ‘Opus de Funk’ (a tribute to Horace Silver).

Tue 30: Celebrate with Newcastle Jazz Co-op. 5:30-7:00pm. Free.
Tue 30: Swing Manouche @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. A Coquetdale Jazz event.
Tue 30: Clark Tracey Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ’10 Years á Co-op’ festival event.

May

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 02: The Eight Words - A Jazz Suite @ Newcastle Cathedral, St Nicholas Square, Newcastle NE1 1PF. Tel: 0191 232 1939. 7:30pm. £20.00. (£17.00. student/under 18). Tim Boniface Quartet & Malcolm Guite (poet). Jazz & poetry: The Eight Words (St John Passion).
Thu 02: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 02: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guest band: Mark Toomey (alto sax); Jeremy McMurray (keys) Alan Rudd (bass); Paul Smith (drums)

Fri 03: Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle. 1:00pm. 8:00pm.
Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: Jake Leg Jug Band @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 03: Front Porch Blues Band @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 03: TBC @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Blind Pig Blues Club.
Fri 03: Boys of Brass @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm. £5.00.

Sat 04: Jeff Barnhart’s Mr Men @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 04: Jeff Barnhart @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. Barnstorming solo piano!
Sat 04: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free (donations).
Sat 04: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm.

Sun 05: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm. £7.50.
Sun 05: Sue Ferris Quintet plays Horace Silver @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm.
Sun 05: Guido Spannocchi @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 06: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Update on Mike Carr

An update on former Emcee 5 keyboarder Mikr Carr and his current happenings.
Mike tells me of a one hour Radio Show, "The Doodlin' Lounge" , in San Francisco by Pete Fallico. Fallico has done 12 Podcasts including Horace Silver and Jimmy Smith as well as a one hour show by Mike.
Mike says that when you see 'Radio' double click on it. Well I did that but had to take a raincheck on Mike. Nevertheless, there is still some great organ jazz from players such as Joey De Francesco and Charles Kynard among others.
Mike's own website is at http://www.mikecarr.co.uk/
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"The Emcee 5 CD," said Mike, "comprises world class players; Ronnie Stephenson (drums), Gary Cox (tenor), my brother Ian (trumpet) who was also a great writer - he wrote the marvellous Miles Davis Book as well as the Keith Jarrett one. On bass there was Spike Heatley, Malcolm Cecil, Midge Ure or John O'Carroll. Jackie Denton and Johnny Butts were also on Drums. The disc has been issued twice in Japan, the first time to Eugene Music in 1998 and the second time to Celeste Records in Tokyo, in 2002. Celeste have it out right now on CD."
(Lance says: If there are any deprived persons who haven't got the Emcee 5 disc, either on CD or vinyl they can remedy it by going to Mike's site - he's got them for a tenner plus postage.)
"If you go to my web site," continued Mike, "you will see some of my other CDs including 'Cargo' which features Dave Collins vocals, Victor Feldman vibes, Jim Mullen guitar, Dick Morrissey and Don Weller tenor. Also, Ronnie Scott, Tim Cansfield guitar and Robert Ahwai as well as Peter King alto.
My current band is the Blue Note Band - see website.
As you probably know, I lived in Gosforth but worked with the Emcee Five in the Marimba Coffee House, the Downbeat Club and another club in Percy Street - I don't remember the name (Club A' Go Go?)." - Mike Carr."
(As a matter of further interest - Mike has Jim Cormack's standard fake book "JC Changes" available. Not only does it have melody and changes for a zillion standards but the changes are the real McCoy and as modern as tomorrow. £33 from Mike.)
Lance.
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