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Bebop Spoken There

Steve Coleman: ''If you don't keep learning, your mind slows down. Use it or lose it''. (DownBeat, January 2025).

The Things They Say!

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)

Postage

17719 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 39 of them this year alone and, so far, 39 this month (Jan. 15).

From This Moment On ...

January 2025

Wed 15: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 15: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 15: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 15: Hot Club of Heaton @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘third Wednesday in the month’ session. TBC.

Thu 16: Pete Tanton & the Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Fri 17: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 17: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 17: Joe Steels Trio w. Graham Hardy @ The Pele, Corbridge. 7:00pm. £10.00. (inc. a welcome drink & table reservation). Book at: www.drinks@thepele.co.uk. A ‘Jazz at the Pele’ promotion.
Fri 17: Russ Morgan Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 17: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 18: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 18: Alter Ego + Jamie Toms/Graham Don Duo @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Sat 18: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Repas 7 by Night, West St., Berwick TD15 1AS. 7:30pm. Free. Album launch gig.
Sat 18: Delta Prophets @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 19: Glenn Miller Orchestra UK @ Glasshouse, Gateshead. 3:00pm. ‘Glenn Miller & the Rat Pack Era’.
Sun 19: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 19: Spilt Milk @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:15-7:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Sun 19: Tenement Jazz Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 19: Nick Ross Orchestra @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm.
Sun 19: Freight Train (Tobin/Noble/Clarvis) @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 20: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 21: ???

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

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Midnight in Mayfair - A Tribute to the Great British Dance Bands with Keith Nichols & His Park Lane Orchestra. The Sage, Gateshead.

Ben Cummings, Enrico Tomasso, Bent Persson (tpts). Alistair Allan, Adrian Fry (tmbs), Rob Buckland, Robert Fowler (alt/clt). Jean-Francois Bonnel, (ten/clt), Mark Allaway (ten/bar), Franz Sjostrom (bass/sax). Sarah Roberts, Ed Cross, Emma Fisk (vln), Tom 'Spats' Langham (vcl/gtr/bjo), Malcolm Sked (bs/sousa), Nick Ward (dms), Keith Nichols (pno/vcl/MD) Janice Day (vcl).
Edward, Prince of Wales, is dancing with Wallis Simpson, Noel Coward propositions an Italian waiter. A 'Hooray Henry' requests Ambrose to play Embassy Stomp. He writes his request on a ten pound note and gives it to a waiter to give to the band-leader. Ambrose, insulted, sends his refusal back on a twenty.
Champagne glasses clink, cocktails are shaken, the bright young things are enjoying a night out at the Kit-Kat Club or maybe the Café de Paris or the Monseigneur
On the continent, Hitler's making noises but nobody takes any notice over here. Why should they when they could dance to Carroll Gibbons, Jack Hylton, Harry Roy, Lew Stone and Fred Elizade?
Ignore him - nasty little man will go away.
Nasty little man didn't go away and, fortunately, neither did the music - tonight it returned.
Keith Nichols opened up tonight's concert - the prologue to the Whitley Bay Jazz Festival - with Embassy Stomp and took us on a magical mystery tour of London, Cannes, Monte Carlo and The Riviera in the 1920s and 30s.
A delightful trip back in time by a well-drilled band. Jazz content was limited but the music defined an era of good tunes, clever lyrics, matched vibratos, hot choruses and perfectly enunciated vocal refrains.
Very enjoyable evening.
Lance.

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