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December
Sun 03: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:30pm. £7.50.
Sun 03: The Central Bar Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. The Central Bar Quartet plays Lou Donaldson’s Gravy Train. Featuring Jamie Toms.
Sun 03: Revolutionaires @ The Water House, North Road, Durham. 4:00pm. Rock 'n' roll excellence! Line-up inc. Pete Tanton.
Sun 03: Paul Skerritt @ Smith’s Arms, Carlton, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:00pm.
Sun 03: Johnny Hunter Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 03: Jam session @ The Schooner, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 04: Northern Monkey Brass Band @ People’s Kitchen, Bath Lane, Newcastle. From 5:30pm. On-street gig supporting the work of the People’s Kitchen charity. Wrap up warm! Donate!
Mon 04: Michael Young Trio w Lindsay Hannon @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £8.00.
Mon 04: Durham University Jazz Orchestra + Durham University Big Band @ Durham Castle DH1 3RW. 8:30pm. £6.00.; £5.00. concs; £4.00. DSM. ‘Jazzy Christmas’.
Tue 05: Customs House Big Band @ All Saints Church, Cleadon. 7:00pm. Concert in the church hall. BYOB.
Tue 05: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Sid White. The best free show in town!
Wed 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 06: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 8:00pm. Free. Note later start time, concert performance (open to the public).
Wed 06: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay, Newcastle. 12 noon - 4:00pm. £26.00 (inc 3-course meal in in St Mary's Lighthouse Suite). SOLD OUT!
Thu 07: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 07: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.Donations. Feat. Mark Sanders. CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00. Downstairs.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 08: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 08: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 08: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Woodland Village Hall, Bishop Auckland. 7:00pm. £12.00.
Fri 08: Sleep Suppressor + Redwell @ Head of Steam, Neville St., Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv); £5.00. student.
Fri 08: Hot Club du Nord @ St Cuthbert's Church, Shadforth, Co. Durham.
Fri 08: Têtes de Pois + Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £8.00.
Sat 09: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 09: Abbie Finn Trio @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm.
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.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Ned Kelly's
Darlo Devastated
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sirkis Comes To Town - The Sage, Hall Two.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday Night is Dankworth Night
Not Just Another Poster
Ayanna Top Banana @ The Apollo.
Saturday Night @ The Sage
A Message From Mike Durham
Meanwhile, Down in The Smoke...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Ray Chester Big Band @ The Corner House.
Paul Edis says...
Rosie Malone's
Paul Gamblin - the last farewell.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Kenny Wheeler's 80th Birthday Big Band Concert @ The Sage
Kenny Wheeler Preview.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Ruthie Henshall and The Sound of Hollywood @ The Sage, Gateshead.
There's No Business Like Show Business (overture) - Annie Get Your Gun. Everything's Coming up Roses - Gypsy. I Get a Kick Out of You, Anything Goes, You're The Top - Anything Goes Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better - Annie Get Your Gun The Carioca - Flying Down to Rio (instrumental) Hello Dolly - Hello Dolly I'm the Greatest Star, People, Don't Rain on my Parade - Funny Girl The Man That Got Away - A Star is Born The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door - Meet me in St Louis Good mornin' - Singin' in the rain Willkommen - Cabaret Thoroughly Modern Millie - Thoroughly Modern Millie Wouldn't it be Lovely - My Fair Lady
Excellent!
Lance.
Update on Paul Gamblin Funeral Arrangements.
Tonight At The Sage, Gateshead - RUTHIE HENSHALL
Bobby Carr photo discovered.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sarah Ellen Hughes @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond.
Zoe Gilby Splinter @ The Bridge - Take 2.

Michael Garrick M.B.E
Zoe Gilby - Splinter @ The Bridge
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Jazz Café Sunday Afternoon
Here Come The Girls
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Language of Jazz - The G.S.Wellard Septet

Tees Valley - gigs coming up next month.

Friday, October 22, 2010
Paul Gamblin - Tonight's Evening Chronicle.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Fun-packed Afternoon with Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's.
Omid's Express & Take It to The Bridge @ The Chilli
Pee Wee Ellis & Gareth Williams at Lanercost Priory October 16.

Local heroine Roz Sluman and her band 'smoothed' their way onto the stage, very effectively set across the nave of the Priory, with a couple of classics including a spirited rendition of It could happen to you. Roz's comment that this was the first time she had not had to mic up the saxophone in such a large venue was borne out by the excellent and much talked about acoustics provided by the wonderful vaulted ceiling and ancient stones of the building. After a great up-tempo Bernie's Tune Roz treated us to a soulful version of Angel Eyes which really allowed the notes to soar to the beautifully worked wooden ceiling. Joined by vocalist Pete Hoban to end the set, the first half of the concert really demonstrated that the Priory could enhance all types of music
From the first number, Pee Wee Ellis treated us to a master class with melodious notes spilling out of his sax so fast, that even he admitted to showing off, just a little! He was clearly enjoying the venue, with the rich mellow tones of his playing filling the whole of the Priory with total ease. I had deliberately sat right at the back to test the acoustics and they didn't disappoint.
Interspersed with fascinating snippets about his life as a musician, including how he approached Sonny Rollins to give him a lesson when he was just 16, Pee Wee, accompanied on the grand piano in great style by Gareth Williams, took us through an eclectic repertoire from Herbie Hancock to Willie Nelson with some of his own material thrown in for good measure, all in his very individual style - including the singing!
He generously invited Roz and her band to join him on stage, with some fabulous duets between him and Roz, which clearly lifted her playing to another level and then closed the evening with a touch of James Brown, encouraging us to join in on the vocals!
A standing ovation was richly justified and the evening was, without doubt, another triumph of fundraising by David Gosling for that now prestigious jazz venue, Lanercost Priory! It all left me thinking - 'top that David' - and I'm sure he will. I look forward to it Sally Moon - BBC Radio Cumbria - 'And all that Jazz' programme.
Video of Roz and Pee Wee blowing on Now's The Time.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Paul Gamblin Funeral Arrangements
Book Early For Your Christmas Turkey
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
R.I.P. Paul Gamblin

Monday, October 18, 2010
Jo Harrup and Paul Edis Trio Fill the Cherry Tree

Cherry Tree in Blossom Tonight
Zoe on Radio Cumbria
Threeway @ Scarborough Jazz Festival
Sunday, October 17, 2010
HCW @ Splinter @ The Bridge

Jazz Café Jumps
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Strictly Big Band @ The Sage.
Ruth Lambert Quintet @ Traveller's Rest, Darlington. Oct.14th
Musicon Jazz Festival: 4 - 6 March, 2011
Friday, October 15, 2010
A Breath of Fresh Air at The Fell with the NEW CENTURY RAGTIME ORCHESTRA
Chico Hamilton Quintet in BBC 2 Film
Change of Program this Sunday @ The Bridge Hotel
Aki Takase & Keith Tippett @ Kings Hall, Newcastle
Listen: when things spiral beyond serious, the gloves are off, just as today, laid flat behind them on the floor of the Kings Hall, the great black lids were off the Yin & Yang joined Steinways, scattered inside with the contents of an improvising pianist's man/woman drawer - ping pong balls, blocks of wood, curtain rings, chopsticks and old combs - to bounce, zing, excite and frustrate the normal reactions of these majestic pianos.
Keith and Aki walked on together, took their bows to welcoming applause from the more than ample lunch time audience and then sat at their just-married instruments in contemplative silence, as collective vapours of ideas seemed to condense from the very ether of this beautifully resonant old hall. Emerging from his meditation, Keith stands and applies a piece of softwood to the cross-over treble strings, zzzing! as Aki makes her introductory percussive statement on the keys. I close my eyes in tonal absorption as the improvisations take off in such artful conversation, I have to open them for a periodic reality check to drag my out-of-body down from the ceiling - and of course, to keep an eye on what the two players are up to. Like the crossing wash of two grand boats passing starboard to starboard, the performance is never predictable and yet perfectly anticipated as the waves chop and splash on our aural harbour steps. Keith establishes a punching rhythm in the bass register, damped so that only the sound of the hammer mechanism can be heard, transporting us to an old cotton mill, where the shuttles fly back and forth as Aki applies a chromatic warp and weft punctuated by her colourful crashing chords. This is such an amazing telepathic improvised jazz duet that each player seems quite relaxed to introduce old friends as at a lively party: Keith, you remember George Gershwin and Aki, this is Abdullah Ibrahim - they go back to exciting the lips of their harmonic cocktail glasses. The control is never forced and rises and falls so gracefully from crescendo to diminuendo that you imagine they could be pilots with independent controls of the same aerobatic aircraft - we look skywards but never feel like running for cover! And, just as in the art of conversation, the end game is as important as the dizzy heights of the performance: Keith's fingers dart around inside a tinkling musical box on the inside top treble while Aki turns gently on the keys ; they play their au-revoirs as they had begun, with such respectful finesse we seem to be awakened from a dream, convinced we really can do whatever it was we dreamed we could do! A wonderful performance. George M
More Discs To Die For.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Aki Takase Trio
Dinner Jazz by Bill Shaw
Just Another Manic Thursday - Rosie's
Keith Tippett & Aki Takase @ King's Hall, Newcastle.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Preview - Aki Takase Trio + Mujician
Duncan Eagles Dares to Fly - Partikel CD Review

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Attention Blues Acts/Bands - UK Competition
Zoe Gilby Tour Details
Monday, October 11, 2010
Lewis Watson Quartet @ The Cherry Tree
Tonight at the Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Just Another Manic Sunday (Jazzwise!)
Ashington Jazz Club Wednesday October 06. 10. 10
This was an evening full of surprises which began with a program of standards presented brilliantly by the Graham Hardy Trio. The selection was very reminiscent of the wonderful Chet Baker but without the vocals. An appreciative audience listened intently to the arrangements and applauded enthusiastically as each masterpiece ended. At times you could have heard a pin drop as members were captivated by the sound. Indeed there are a number of adjectives which came to mind during the performances – relaxed, gentle, smooth, mellow, soulful , meditational , cool and swinging. That about sums up the group. Graham was ably supported by Giles Strong (Guitar) and Paul Susans (Double Bass) who were very comfortable and harmonious in that style.
Programme- Bye Bye Blackbird, Mellow Tone, Delilah, Man I Love, Meditation, Stomping at The Savoy.
This was a great way to spend an evening with stress free chamber Jazz.
Thank you Trio – that was great.
Surprise Number two – We had experienced the CALM now for the STORM.
If any of us were so relaxed in a comfortable chair with an enjoyable drink before us then we were to be brought back to reality for on came Horn Dogs with the biggest band in our Club’s history of almost 26 fantastic years. As was mentioned by our conductor this was one over the eight as you shall read.
The Band had been joined by our Club Director, John Taylor, who surprised us all with his Sax. This was his best kept secret for not even his supportive wife had any idea this event would happen .Complete with pristine white shirt and Club Logo he joined the group in their first number and proved to us all that he is a man of many talents who did not cause any embarrassment. Didn’t he do well?
Afterwards the band jumped into its stride with a lively show. The renditions were loud, energetic, exciting and a total contrast to the previous session. At times the Jazz was frantic, pacey but always in the best possible taste and by the end of the evening the audience was as physically and emotionally exhausted as all the band members. Audience responses had been electric and our guest musicians had replied as only they knew how. We enjoyed and loved their Jazz Style,new to Ashington and we embraced it. If the Band are in need of sponsorship then Boots might be an option as our elderly enthusiasts would love to be taking whatever they are on. Thank you Horn Dogs for the night.
Programme – What a Friend, Big ‘n Breezy, Tears of a Clown, Do what-cha want, Mellow Felony, Remember When, Saints go marchin ‘ in, Hey Jude, Horn Dogging (imagine that) and High on Life.
Peter S.
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- Ned Kelly's
- Darlo Devastated
- Sirkis Comes To Town - The Sage, Hall Two.
- The Halloween Hop
- Friday Night is Dankworth Night
- Not Just Another Poster
- Ayanna Top Banana @ The Apollo.
- Saturday Night @ The Sage
- A Message From Mike Durham
- Meanwhile, Down in The Smoke...
- Ray Chester Big Band @ The Corner House.
- Paul Edis says...
- Rosie Malone's
- Paul Gamblin - the last farewell.
- Kenny Wheeler's 80th Birthday Big Band Concert @ T...
- Kenny Wheeler Preview.
- Ruthie Henshall and The Sound of Hollywood @ The S...
- Update on Paul Gamblin Funeral Arrangements.
- Tonight At The Sage, Gateshead - RUTHIE HENSHALL
- Bobby Carr photo discovered.
- Sarah Ellen Hughes @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant, J...
- Zoe Gilby Splinter @ The Bridge - Take 2.
- Michael Garrick M.B.E
- Zoe Gilby - Splinter @ The Bridge
- Jazz Café Sunday Afternoon
- Here Come The Girls
- The Language of Jazz - The G.S.Wellard Septet
- Tees Valley - gigs coming up next month.
- Paul Gamblin - Tonight's Evening Chronicle.
- Fun-packed Afternoon with Maine Street Jazzmen @ R...
- Omid's Express & Take It to The Bridge @ The Chilli
- Pee Wee Ellis & Gareth Williams at Lanercost Prior...
- Paul Gamblin Funeral Arrangements
- Book Early For Your Christmas Turkey
- R.I.P. Paul Gamblin
- Jo Harrup and Paul Edis Trio Fill the Cherry Tree
- Cherry Tree in Blossom Tonight
- Another masterpiece from Bill Shaw.
- Zoe on Radio Cumbria
- Threeway @ Scarborough Jazz Festival
- HCW @ Splinter @ The Bridge
- Jazz Café Jumps
- Strictly Big Band @ The Sage.
- Ruth Lambert Quintet @ Traveller's Rest, Darlingto...
- Musicon Jazz Festival: 4 - 6 March, 2011
- A Breath of Fresh Air at The Fell with the NEW CEN...
- Chico Hamilton Quintet in BBC 2 Film
- Change of Program this Sunday @ The Bridge Hotel
- Aki Takase & Keith Tippett @ Kings Hall, Newcastle
- More Discs To Die For.
- Aki Takase Trio
- Dinner Jazz by Bill Shaw
- Just Another Manic Thursday - Rosie's
- Keith Tippett & Aki Takase @ King's Hall, Newcastle.
- Preview - Aki Takase Trio + Mujician
- Duncan Eagles Dares to Fly - Partikel CD Review
- Attention Blues Acts/Bands - UK Competition
- Zoe Gilby Tour Details
- Lewis Watson Quartet @ The Cherry Tree
- Tonight at the Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond
- Just Another Manic Sunday (Jazzwise!)
- Ashington Jazz Club Wednesday October 06. 10. 10
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- Tonight @ The Sage - Ruby Turner.
- Rendezvous Jazz @ The Piper, Cullercoats. October 2nd
- Cecile Salvant McLorin Scores For gold.
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