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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Paul Edis Trio + Roly Veitch at The Cherry Tree.


Roly Veitch – guitar and vocals; Paul Edis – piano and flute; Mick Shoulder – bass and Adam Sinclair – drums.
Take Paul’s trio, add Roly’s guitar and vocals and what do you get? Musically the most varied (and arguably the most successful) programme I've yet seen at The Cherry Tree. There was something for everybody: standards, bossa nova and twelve-bar blues. The musicians really seemed to gel and to get a kick out of playing together creating wonderful combinations of sound - flute and guitar on the bossa nova, Meditation; piano and bass on Emily and piano and guitar on Just One of Those Things.
It was delightful.
      The roll-call of composers and lyricists was impressive too, featuring Rodgers and Hart, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin whose beautiful Ah loves you Porgy was, for me, the high-point of the evening.
      The first set opened with the trio playing a request, Satin Doll,  Roly crooned away our “cares and woes” with Just You, Just Me and Bye, Bye Blackbird. Paul gave his flute an airing on the aforementioned Meditation and Mick was to the fore in Emily
Paul’s arrangement (Bill Evans influenced?) of  Singin’ in the Rain is one  that I would dearly love to hear in a quieter atmosphere as, by this time, main courses were in full swing. My Funny Valentine was next up and the set closed with more fine vocals from Roly on that optimists’ anthem, Wrap your Troubles in Dreams.
In the second set we were treated to Yesterdays, Say it Isn’t so” (another good solo from Mick), the Gershwin love song (Porgy) and Johnny Mercer’s Harlem Butterfly. Roly said "We could only guess at where Paul got his title for Big Jug Blues from" (a pub on Claypath, Durham City, Roly, actually!) but the number drew warm applause anyway. Just One of those Things completed the evening apart from an encore which I missed while paying the bill!
The food normally gets equal billing with the music in these reviews so my apologies for the brevity of what follows: it was, as ever, excellent and, between four of us we sampled a good cross section of the menu. If you’ve never been yet, why not? - Photos.
Jerry.

1 comment :

John Taylor said...

Last minute we decided to go to the Cherry Tree Only a 7:00 table available.
Nevertheless we had a nice meal and enjoyed the programme. As big an audience as I have yet seen at the Tree were well entertained.

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