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May 2023
Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
June
Thu 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 01: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Donations.
Thu 01: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 01: Jake Leg Jug Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 01: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: Joseph Carville Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 02: Claire Martin & Her Trio @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm. £25.00., £20.00. Feat. Jim Mullen, Alex Garnett & Jeremy Brown.
Fri 02: Guy Davis + Michael Littlefield & Scott Taylor @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. Doors 7:30pm. Blues double bill.
Fri 02: Anders Ingram @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club. Country blues. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sat 03: Newcastle Record Fair @ Northumbria University, Newcastle NE8 8SB. 10:00am-3:00pm. Admission: £2.00.
Sat 03: Pedigree Jazz Band @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 03: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Sue Ferris. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 03: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sun 04: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 04: Central Bar Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. £5.00. The Central Bar Quintet plays Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus. Featuring Lewis Watson.
Sun 04: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 04: Struggle Buggy + Michael Littlefield @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Acoustic blues.
Sun 04: Swinging at the Cotton Club: Harry Strutters' Hot Rhythm Orchestra @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 04: Richard Jones Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 05: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Tue 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 06: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Stu Collingwood (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums).
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Farewell to Ottilie Patterson

Benjamin Moussay Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. June 28.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Al Di Meola and Peo Alfonsi @ Union Chapel London BluesFest 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Roy Hargrove Quintet @ Union Chapel, Highbury. London BluesFest 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
The Things We Did Last Summer (or maybe it was a few summers ago!)
Time for a Fix!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
VOTNJO w. HENRY LOWTHER
Jambusters @ The Jazz Café
Ain't no time for jive @ The Central Bar - they were here last week and done gone and moved down the line...
Tonight's The Night at the Bridge Hotel
British Modern Jazz Site
Saturday, June 25, 2011
CD Review: Serpent - Alex Garnett.
Friday, June 24, 2011
New Band to be unveiled on Saturday at The Sage
Doctor's Dilemma
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Bird Plays Benny - Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A Slow Boat To China perhaps?

Radio 2's "Special" Day.
Tonight at the Spice of Life.
Tonight at the Bridge Hotel.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Lennart Andersson @ The Jazz Café Sat June 18.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Lennart Andersson w. Paul Edis Trio @ The Cherry Tree
A Special Night Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Claude Werner Quartet @ The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle.
Tales of the Unexpected @ The Jazz Café
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Review: Twelve O'Clock Tales - Claudia Morris.

More memories of Johnny Heenan by Bill Harper.
There's a dance pavilion in the rain...
Remembering Johnny Heenan by Anne (DeVere) Harper
Friday, June 17, 2011
The Three Tenors are in Town!
Review: Tommy Smith - Karma

Next Wednesday (June 22) BBC Radio 2 - 2day
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Lennart Andersson w. the Blaydon Jazz Trio @ Blaydon Jazz Club.
Happy Homecoming for Herbie Hudson Maine St. Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Moonlighting in Vermont (Hotel)
Konitz Condition Improving.
Lindsay Hannon's New Orleans Choir - an invitation to singers
Soul Rebels Brass Band 'up North' in July.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Eyes Shut Tight @ The Bridge Hotel. June 12th
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY MUSIC FESTIVAL AT KING’S HALL
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(Jamie Stockbridge, Charlie Bayley, Nicola Thorne and David Mabbott).
I thought I was going to hear classical music at this free festival, which is on for an hour each day this week, and also in the evenings. However the final item of the concert turned out to be this saxophone quartet who treated us to some very tasty tunes.
They began with a tune by someone called Bill Hayes – I didn’t catch the title but it was something about wine. Then came Autumn Leaves, slow and fast by turns, with a high pitched climax towards the end. There followed Brubeck’s Blue Rondo a la Turk, from the Time Out album with short perky solos. Next came another title I didn’t catch, (was it
The four sax’s covered the range well, from the straight one (soprano?) to a deep one (baritone?) and, I presume, alto and tenor in between. (Sorry to sound so amateurish about this). The elegant surroundings of the King’s Hall didn’t detract and actually helped me to concentrate on the music more.
I’d recommend these concerts to music lovers in general. We were also so treated to wonderful piano (Beethoven, Chopin, and not a note of printed music anywhere). There was also an avant-garde (their description) piece by a tuba and trombone duo, which I thought defied classification, and could have been classical, or even Jazz North East ‘On The Outside’.
Ann Alex
Lennart Andersson to play extra gig.

Pseudonyms.
Message From Mike Durham
Monday, June 13, 2011
Preview: Claire Kelly @ The Vermont Hotel
Tonight at the Cherry Tree

Sunday, June 12, 2011
Of All The Gin Joints - Jazz Café Jam Session
Tonight at The Bridge Hotel
Mystery Big Band at Newton Aycliffe
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Priorities

Count Basie on Jazz 625 - does anyone have a recording?
Claire Martin - OBE
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Impossible Gentlemen @ The Sage, Gateshead
R.I.P Johnny Heenan.
Dave Connolly Funeral Details
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Preservation Hall Jazz Band in London next Friday
Back Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Q @ The Central Bar,Gateshead. June 7th
R.I.P. Nils-Bertil Dahlander
30 Terrific Jazz Blogs (worldwide) and we're among them!
This Friday @ The Sage - The Impossible Gentlemen.
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Bird on TCM tonight
Tonight's Jazz North East gig at the Central Bar.
Monday, June 06, 2011
One Guy Named Mo. Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond
Keith Stephen Trio w. Caroline @ Ashington Jazz Club June 1
Be-bop - East Side Torpedoes
Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
Scarborough Jazz Festival Program
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Legohead @ The Bridge.
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- Farewell to Ottilie Patterson
- Benjamin Moussay Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle....
- Al Di Meola and Peo Alfonsi @ Union Chapel London ...
- Roy Hargrove Quintet @ Union Chapel, Highbury. Lon...
- The Things We Did Last Summer (or maybe it was a f...
- Time for a Fix!
- VOTNJO w. HENRY LOWTHER
- Jambusters @ The Jazz Café
- Ain't no time for jive @ The Central Bar - they we...
- Tonight's The Night at the Bridge Hotel
- British Modern Jazz Site
- CD Review: Serpent - Alex Garnett.
- New Band to be unveiled on Saturday at The Sage
- Doctor's Dilemma
- Bird Plays Benny - Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie's.
- A Slow Boat To China perhaps?
- Radio 2's "Special" Day.
- Tonight at the Spice of Life.
- Tonight at the Bridge Hotel.
- Lennart Andersson @ The Jazz Café Sat June 18.
- Lennart Andersson w. Paul Edis Trio @ The Cherry Tree
- A Special Night Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
- Claude Werner Quartet @ The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle.
- Tales of the Unexpected @ The Jazz Café
- Review: Twelve O'Clock Tales - Claudia Morris.
- More memories of Johnny Heenan by Bill Harper.
- There's a dance pavilion in the rain...
- Remembering Johnny Heenan by Anne (DeVere) Harper
- The Three Tenors are in Town!
- Review: Tommy Smith - Karma
- Next Wednesday (June 22) BBC Radio 2 - 2day
- Lennart Andersson w. the Blaydon Jazz Trio @ Blayd...
- Happy Homecoming for Herbie Hudson Maine St. Jazzm...
- Moonlighting in Vermont (Hotel)
- Konitz Condition Improving.
- Lindsay Hannon's New Orleans Choir - an invitation...
- Soul Rebels Brass Band 'up North' in July.
- Eyes Shut Tight @ The Bridge Hotel. June 12th
- NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY MUSIC FESTIVAL AT KING’S HALL
- Lennart Andersson to play extra gig.
- Pseudonyms.
- Message From Mike Durham
- Preview: Claire Kelly @ The Vermont Hotel
- Tonight at the Cherry Tree
- Of All The Gin Joints - Jazz Café Jam Session
- Tonight at The Bridge Hotel
- Mystery Big Band at Newton Aycliffe
- Priorities
- Count Basie on Jazz 625 - does anyone have a recor...
- Claire Martin - OBE
- The Impossible Gentlemen @ The Sage, Gateshead
- R.I.P Johnny Heenan.
- Dave Connolly Funeral Details
- Preservation Hall Jazz Band in London next Friday
- Back Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's
- Q @ The Central Bar,Gateshead. June 7th
- R.I.P. Nils-Bertil Dahlander
- 30 Terrific Jazz Blogs (worldwide) and we're among...
- This Friday @ The Sage - The Impossible Gentlemen.
- Bird on TCM tonight
- Tonight's Jazz North East gig at the Central Bar.
- One Guy Named Mo. Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond
- Keith Stephen Trio w. Caroline @ Ashington Jazz Cl...
- Be-bop - East Side Torpedoes
- Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
- Scarborough Jazz Festival Program
- Legohead @ The Bridge.
- Newcastle Community Green Festival - Leazes Park.
- Customs House Big Band - second set
- Old Glory Jazz Band @ St.Joseph's Birtley. June 2nd
- R.I.P Ray Bryant
- I Took A Trip On A Train and I wish I'd took the b...
- CD Review: Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody - Al Di Meola
- Customs House Big Band - tonight @ the Saville Exc...
- The Maine Street Jazzmen, Sinatra and a cat called...
- Take It To The Bridge @ The Chillingham.June 1st.
- Dave Connolly Shock News!
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