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December
Sat 09: Prudhoe Community Band @ Central Station, Newcastle. 10:00am - 12 noon. Charity fundraiser.
Sat 09: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Skinnergate, Darlington. 1:00pm.
Sat 09: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 09: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Middleton & Todridge Village Hall, Morpeth. 7:30pm. £12.00., £6.00.
Sat 09: Paul Skerritt @ Slaley Hall, Hexham NE47 0BX. 7:30pm. From £42.00.
Sun 10: Musicians Unlimited’s Xmas Party with Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. MU 1:00-3:00pm; Zoë Gilby Quartet 4:00-6:00pm. Tickets: £7.50.
Sun 10: Alan Law, Paul Grainger & Abbie Finn @ Darlington Market, Market Square, Darlington. 1:00pm. Free. A ‘Christmas Market’ outdoor gig. Wrap up warm!
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Funk Soul Sista @ Stack, Seaburn. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Beth Clarke @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Whittingham Memorial Institute, Alnwick. 7:30pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 10: Tele-Port @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Zhenya Strigalev.
Mon 11: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Interim Final Recitals @ Newcastle University. Details TBC.
Tue 12: Stu Collingwood Organ Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Wed 13: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 13: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 13: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 13: Bold Big Band @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 13: Giles Strong Quartet @ Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Hot Fingers @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 14: After Hours Student Jazz Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. . Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 14: Niffi Osiyemi Trio @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Mo Scott ‘Little Mo’s Festive Appearance’ @ The Schooner, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Tees Hot Club w. Kevin Eland, Josh Bentham, Garry Hadfield, Adrian Beadnell @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 15: Paul Edis @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 15: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 15: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: Paul Skerritt @ Black Horse Inn, Crook. From 7:00pm.
Fri 15: Paul Edis: A Jazzy Christmas @ St Cuhtbert's Centre, Crook. 7:30pm. £15.00. SOLD OUT! Waiting list open.
Fri 15: Zoë Gilby Trio @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Fri 15: Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm. First night of two.
Fri 15: Darlington Big Band @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £10.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 15: Baghdaddies @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £14.00.; £10.00.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Schmazz @ The Cluny: More on Troyka & Corey Mwamba Trio. Tuesday 29th June.
Slice of Troyka followed by a cool glass of Mwamba/Kane/Blackmore - Schmazz @ The Cluny June 29.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Whitley Bay Jazz Festival Reminder.

Stan Martin Funeral Details.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Sarah Ellen Hughes @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant. A Game of Two Halves
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Alter Ego - Splinter @ The Bridge
Tomorrow at the Cherry Tree.
Troyka on 3 and at the Cluny.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra @ The Sage, Gateshead.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Jazz At The Fell - John Hallam with The Dream Band.
Saturday Night @ The Sage Looks Good To Me.
Farewell Alan Plater O.B.E.

Mo Scott Trio @ Blaydon.

Thursday, June 24, 2010
R.I.P. Stan Martin
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Rosier than ever at Rosie's with the Maine Street Jazzmen.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Hot 8 Brass Band
Jazz Returns to the British Legion Club in West Jesmond
Ned Kelly Rides Again - Colin Aitchison
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Update on Mike Carr
Chuck Chucks It!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Willie Payne - a Guitarist's Guitarist .

Sunday, June 20, 2010
ACV - Splinter @ The Bridge
Tonight's Big Gig - Splinter @ The Bridge - ACV
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Tal Farlow on KRML
Friday, June 18, 2010
Customs House Big Band with Ruth Lambert @ Saville Exchange, North Shields

Review: The New Couriers - Brazilian Thoroughfare.
Paul Morgan - another elite bass player - provided the essential foundation as well as chipping in with solid solos.
Martin Drew kicked it along mega mightily giving the soloists no other option but to swing their butts off or die.
Nobody died.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Paul Towndrow's Newology @ the Corner House

Further Trials of a Trainee Jazz Singer. (If there can be such a creature!)
When It's Sleepy Time (not) Down South Shields
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
More on the Great Whittington Jazz Picnic
Tomorrow at the Corner House
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
South Africa Comes to England
Nigel Kennedy on BBC 1 Tonight.
From Bev Getz (on Facebook)
Monday, June 14, 2010
Some People by Sarah Ellen Hughes
ALEXANDER STEWART MAKES PIZZA EXPRESS DEBUT

Sunday, June 13, 2010
Drums? Bass? - who needs them? Saxophonics and the Loco Guitar Trio - Splinter @ the Bridge.
Next Time You're Down in Texas
Forget the World Cup - Look what the future holds...
Saturday, June 12, 2010
The Book of Pepper - Jazz Library, Radio 3
Honoured.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Report from the Jersey Shore
Thursday, June 10, 2010
John Hallam @ Blaydon Jazz Club
Marcin Wasilewski Trio @ The Sage. June 9th.
Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's (Rosie Malone's, South Shields.)
Archival Items from Don Armstrong.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Update on New Century Ragtime Orchestra
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Blame it on my Youth - Sarah Ellen Hughes
The Blaydon Aces - Roly Veitch (guitar & vocals) & James Birkett (guitar) @ Blaydon & District CIU. June 7
WHAT A MUSICAL WEEK!
During last week I spent the sum of £21 and had great music in return, 13 gigs to be exact. Where else in this country could you do that, I ask you?
Jazz gigs included the Claude Werner Quartet last Sunday and the Michael Garrick concert on Thursday, where I got to talk to the man himself, and what a lovely gentleman he was – see the photo. Then there was a ceilidh at Gateshead on Tuesday. I can’t imagine many of the jazz fans I know dancing at a ceilidh (eh Lance?) but it’s great fun if you like that sort of thing, which I do.
But what I mainly wanted readers to know about were the jazz-like influences that I spotted at the Sage folk concerts run by the young people doing the Folk and Traditional Music Degree. There were 10 of these concerts. Nine of them were FREE, each lasting about 45 minutes, and were part of the students’ work which was being assessed. Obviously these were mainly folk music influenced (forget Wild Rovers, there’s a lot more to it than that!) but there were influences from folk music of other cultures such as Mongolian and French, elements of Shakespeare, and even a brass band. The jazz-like elements included a young lad called Simon Stephenson on guitar who treated us to ‘Windy and Warm’ (John D. Loudermilk); ‘The Orange Grove’ composed by the lad himself but influenced by Mississipi John Hurt; and ‘Salty Dog Rag’ and ‘Saturday Night Shuffle’. That last one was originally played by Merle Travis. Simon certainly knew how to play a mean rag.
Another lad to watch for is Ben Church (I don’t think he’s related to Charlotte though he did sing a song in Welsh). He has a most intriguing style of playing guitar which I think would interest jazz musicians. He was finger-picking, playing a quick chord, then doing percussion on the side of the guitar, each in turn, to produce a wonderful lively evocative sound.
Jazz fans may want to try these free concerts next year. You never know, you may get to like folk music if you don’t already listen to it.
Ann Alexander
Hi-hats and Hot-rods. Paul Edis Trio + Chris Hibbard at the Cherry Tree.

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- Schmazz @ The Cluny: More on Troyka & Corey Mwamba...
- Slice of Troyka followed by a cool glass of Mwamba...
- Whitley Bay Jazz Festival Reminder.
- Stan Martin Funeral Details.
- Sarah Ellen Hughes @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant. A...
- Alter Ego - Splinter @ The Bridge
- Tomorrow at the Cherry Tree.
- Troyka on 3 and at the Cluny.
- Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestr...
- Jazz At The Fell - John Hallam with The Dream Band.
- Saturday Night @ The Sage Looks Good To Me.
- Farewell Alan Plater O.B.E.
- Mo Scott Trio @ Blaydon.
- R.I.P. Stan Martin
- Rosier than ever at Rosie's with the Maine Street ...
- The Hot 8 Brass Band
- Jazz Returns to the British Legion Club in West Je...
- Ned Kelly Rides Again - Colin Aitchison
- Update on Mike Carr
- Chuck Chucks It!
- Willie Payne - a Guitarist's Guitarist .
- ACV - Splinter @ The Bridge
- Tonight's Big Gig - Splinter @ The Bridge - ACV
- Tal Farlow on KRML
- Customs House Big Band with Ruth Lambert @ Saville...
- Review: The New Couriers - Brazilian Thoroughfare.
- Paul Towndrow's Newology @ the Corner House
- Further Trials of a Trainee Jazz Singer. (If there...
- When It's Sleepy Time (not) Down South Shields
- More on the Great Whittington Jazz Picnic
- Tomorrow at the Corner House
- South Africa Comes to England
- Nigel Kennedy on BBC 1 Tonight.
- From Bev Getz (on Facebook)
- Some People by Sarah Ellen Hughes
- ALEXANDER STEWART MAKES PIZZA EXPRESS DEBUT
- Drums? Bass? - who needs them? Saxophonics and the...
- Next Time You're Down in Texas
- Forget the World Cup - Look what the future holds...
- The Book of Pepper - Jazz Library, Radio 3
- Honoured.
- Report from the Jersey Shore
- John Hallam @ Blaydon Jazz Club
- Marcin Wasilewski Trio @ The Sage. June 9th.
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's (Rosie Malone's, So...
- Archival Items from Don Armstrong.
- Update on New Century Ragtime Orchestra
- Blame it on my Youth - Sarah Ellen Hughes
- The Blaydon Aces - Roly Veitch (guitar & vocals) &...
- WHAT A MUSICAL WEEK!
- Hi-hats and Hot-rods. Paul Edis Trio + Chris Hibba...
- In (and out) of Town Tonight
- Michael Garrick says...
- Extreme Pleasure from Extreme Measures - Splinter ...
- It IS possible to Love a Banjo Player! (of course ...
- Jan Kopinski's Reflektor @ The Sage. June 6th
- Another look at Ashington Jazz Club's Jubilee
- Play Misty for Me
- The Rae Brothers w. Steve Graham, Ian Wynne and Ke...
- Appeal Court Free Corbett and Liddle
- Verona Chard's Fever
- Tomorrow's Warriors Live @ Peter Parker's Hot Dog ...
- Michael Garrick Trio @ Gateshead Old Town Hall
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's (Rosie Malone's, So...
- Jubilee Quintet @ Ashington Jazz Club
- Nigel Kennedy Quintet and Anna Marie Jopek at The ...
- Nigel Kennedy Takes Pole Position at The Sage
- Tell 'em you're allergic to Andrew Lloyd Webber Liz.
- The Customs House Big Band & Ruth Lambert @ New Cr...
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Corner House. May 31st.
- Martin Taylor on TV tomorrow morning.
- Doctor Who? New Crown, South Shields, Tonight
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