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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.

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.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

ACV on 3

Lance.

1 comment :

George M said...

It was such a thrill for jazz in the northeast last night when Jez Nelson, presenter of Jazz on 3, announced Bassist Andy Champion's new band ACV, "based in Newcastle", his closing remarks rightly praising not only ACV but also, the deserving Graeme Wilson for his blasting baritone work on the aptly chosen track, Waking the Sleeper, written by Andy and taken from ACV's first album, Fail in Wood ; Listen again if you missed it - it's really worth it - (See link above) and, if you want to read the track through as you listen, you can take your chances with this paragraph from ACV's Fail in Wood album review:

Waking the Sleeper
Close your eyes and climb into the cockpit of this fast-moving game - this atonal dream; become the Sleeper; plumb each traumatic well of disharmony and dis-chord. You might feel it's trying to trick you awake but don't be fooled; cling on to the bucking-bronco tempos of the night - 3/4, 4/4, 7/8, 7/4, as your Spitfire banks and bumps down a flight of stairs that only a moment ago was the vast soaring London skyline, turning into a monocycle with no saddle - painful! but you're sticking with it, as Graeme Wilson's baritone swaps cannon bursts with Mark's Strat and Paul's Hammond splashes huge Ak-Ak salvos on the bullet-holed curtain of the night, splitting well worn threads like long molecular chains. Some beautiful solo work from the baritone - modal roots moving around in a 'Now you see me' way, while the organ spins its searchlight laser chords this way and that in an effort to keep those bombers in sight. This is an exciting, hardly comfortable Blitz raid where, just when you think you know where Andy's bass is safely leading you, the ME-109's are back; Jez Nelson shakes you as you lie in bed, "Oh thank God Jez - it was only a dream." But then a voice cruelly reminds you, "No my friend - this is the dream!"
George Milburn.

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