Bebop Spoken There

Donovan Haffner ('Best Newcomer' 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards): ''I got into jazz the first time I picked up a saxophone!" - Jazzwise Dec 25/Jan 26

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

18122 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 1086 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Dec. 31), 100

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 07: FILM: Blue Moon @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Dir. Richard Linklater’s biopic of Lorenz Hart.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 08: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Jazz Milestones of 1976.

Fri 09: The House Trio @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 09: Nauta @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Trio: Jacob Egglestone, Jamie Watkins, Bailey Rudd.
Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Warren James & the Lonesome Travellers @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 09: The Blue Kings @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv.). All-star band.

Sat 10: Mark Toomey Quintet @ St Peter’s Church, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:30pm. £12.00. (inc. pie & peas). Tickets from: 07749 255038.

Sun 11: New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 12: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 13: Milne Glendinning Band @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Coquetdale Jazz.
Tue 13: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

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

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

A Grecian Trilogy - Plunging Swedes and a Couple of Festivals

Vasilis Xenopoulos returns to the region on Thursday for 3 unmissable gigs.
The saga unfolds on Thursday at Blaydon Jazz Club a.k.a. Blaydon CIU Club, Garden St., Blaydon, where the Grecian tenor saxist weaves his magic alongside the Paul Edis Trio. Act One commences at 8:30pm.
On Friday, 'Vasy' is at Saltburn Jazz Club - again with PET. This is a 7:30pm curtain call.
Saturday sees him at the first Musicon Durham Jazz Festival held in St Chad's College, Durham City. Again with PET and again 7:30pm start. This one is free and there is also an afternoon workshop.
Not that this week is totally Greek. Tonight, the Swedish trio Plunge are at the Central Bar, Gateshead in a JNE/On The Outside presentation. 8:30pm start.
Also tonight the Customs House Big Band are at the New Crown Hotel, South Shields for their monthly open rehearsal followed by a free concert. 7:30pm. As an added attraction, Ruth Lambert will be providing the vocal candy.
More vocals on Friday at the Musicon Festival from Durham based American singer Sandi Russell. With Sandi is the John Horler Trio and saxophone supremo Alan Barnes.
Sunday afternoon - still at the Musicon - guitarist John Etheridge gives a solo recital.
Wondering how you're going to fit it all in? Well I've got news for you - there's more!
Running concurrently yet independently is the Great North Big Band Festival over in Sunderland.
This is at The Bonded Warehouse on Friday and at Sunderland University, North Shore, Charles St., Sunderland on Saturday and Sunday.
Looks like a busy time ahead.
Lance.
PS: Oh yes and don't let's forget the magnificent Osian Roberts/Steve Fishwick Quintet at Darlington Arts Centre on Friday evening. 8:00pm for some brilliant hard bop.
PPS: If your tastes are a little more pre-historic then the Millenium Eagle Jazz Band are at Jazz at the Fell's new home - the Gateshead British Legion Club, 142 Coatsworth Rd. This is also on Friday night - the jazziest night of the year so far in these parts!

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