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April 2025.
Fri 25: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT! Duo performance.
Fri 25: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 25: Andrea Vicari Trio @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); Russ Morgan (drums).
Fri 25: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 25: Red Kites Jazz @ Land of Oak & Iron, Winlaton Mill. 6:00-9:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Fri 25: Struggle Buggy @ The White Room, Stanley. 7:45pm. Rhythm & blues.
Fri 25: Paul Skerritt Big Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £20.30., £18.00. All-star big band.
Fri 25: Andrea Vicari Trio @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); Russ Morgan (drums). An Opus 4 Jazz Club event.
Sat 26: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Darlington. 12 noon. Free (donations).
Sat 26: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 26: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ Elvet Methodist Church, Durham. 7:30pm. Tickets: £12.00. + bf. Duo performance.
Sat 26: Neil Cowley Trio @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £22.50.
Sat 26: Pete Tanton & the Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Andrea Vicari Trio @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); John Bradford (drums).
Sun 27: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Paul Susans, Russ Morgan.
Sun 27: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: JustKing Jones @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.50. JustKing Jones (alto sax, soprano sax); Jordan Williams (piano); Jason Clotter (bass); Malcolm Charles (drums). Ace NYC outfit!
Sun 27: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Swing Manouche @ Warkworth Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00. Tickets from 01665 711388.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Ken Marley, Russ Morgan.
Mon 28: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 29: ???
Wed 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 30: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 30: International Jazz Day @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £16.00.; £14.00. adv.. Feat. Guido Spannocchi, John Pope & Steve Hanley + Take it to the Bridge participants + Open Mic Night participants.
MAY 2025
Thu 01: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Member’s Contribution.
Thu 01: Alabaster de Plume @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 01: Living in Shadows + OUTRI @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 01: The Shayo Experiment @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Shayo Oshodi & Liam Oliver.
Thu 01: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Free.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tonight on BBC4 - 9:00pm.
Tommy Henderson Recalls...
New Residency for the Vieux Carré Jazzmen
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
CD Review - Tony Crombie and his Friends: Whole Lotta Tony.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Djangologie @ The Cherry Tree
Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Seb Pipe's Life Experience -Tonight's Splinter @ The Bridge offering.
Catch them tonight at The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle - 8:00pm.
Lance.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Any Jacky Denton tapes out there?
Friday, November 25, 2011
Change of Day at the Bell and Bucket.
Frank Brooker @ Blaydon Jazz Club. November 24th
Claire Kelly Quartet – Hoochie Coochie, Nov. 24
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Searching for Summertime. BBC 4.
Tomorrow night it's Blaydon or Hoochie.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Twisted - Annie Ross
The Jazz Café Documentary
R.I.P Paul Motian

CD Review - Sergio Mendes - Warner's Original Album Series.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Enescu re-Imagined @ The Sage.
Searching For Summertime
Thanks to "Lady" Liz of York for spotting this one.
Lance.
Wilbur's Fate @ The Bridge Hotel. November 20th
CD Review - Charles Mingus - Warner's Original Album Series.
Blues and Roots - the churchy Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting with Booker Ervin and John Handy playing out of their skulls. My Jelly Roll Soul full of affectionate humour and respect for Jelly Roll Morton. Horace Parlan's piano, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Knepper...
Pithecanthropus Erectus - More McLean plus J.R.Montrose on tenor. A Foggy Day - complete with foghorns, police whistles, sirens, taxicab horns and, more importantly an atmospheric Jackie McLean solo.
Tonight at Noon - has some melodic Jimmy Knepper, as well as fiery Shafi Hadi and is a worthy member of this quintology of albums.Knepper, incidentally, was a tower of strength throughout as was drummer Danny Richmond and the leader himself. whose bass playing is still a yardstick today.
The 5 cd set - Charles Mingus Original Album Series - is available from Nov 28.
Lance.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Charles Gayle & Han Bennink @ The Lit and Phil. Nov. 18.

Tomorrow (Monday Nov. 21) Night at The Sage
- Jazz North East & The Sage Gateshead presentENESCU re-IMAGINEDTony Malaby (saxophones); Ralph Alessi (trumpet); Lucian Ban (piano); Mat Maneri (viola); Albrecht Maurer (violin); Drew Gress (bass); Mark Ferber (drums); Badal Roy (tabla)
The contemporary classical composer George Enescu, who died in 1955, is little known in the UK (although an iconic figure in his native Romania), but the harmonic underpinnings of his work are very close to those of jazz, a fact recognised by expatriate pianist Lucian Ban, who pulled together this outstanding New York octet to re-interpret his music at the 2009 Enescu Festival in Bucharest. Ban subsequently took the project to Chicago and New York (where it made several critics’ ‘Gigs of the Year’ lists for 2010), and now comes to the Sage for one of only two UK performances – the other being at the London Jazz Festival.
Working at the edge of classical, jazz, and New York’s downtown scene, this has some affinities with Uri Caine’s acclaimed jazz take on Mahler, which came to Tyneside around a decade ago (also with Ralph Alessi on trumpet), but this may be even more of a revelation. Certainly you could hardly hope for a more exciting line-up, including, in addition to Alessi, storming reedsman Tony Malaby, viola virtuoso Mat Maneri, top bassist Drew Gress and one-time Miles Davis percussionist Badal Roy. It’s a band that would be worth hearing in any context, but in this exciting and adventurous project, it’s likely to give us an unforgettable event.-----The above is from the Jazz North East Facebook page.Lance.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Fiddlers Three
Friday, November 18, 2011
The After Hours Charles Gayle
From Paris (France) to Paris (Kentucky) - The Hot Club of Cowtown @ The Sage, Gateshead.
Greg Spero - A Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.

GABRIELE MIT DREI NEW BAND ON THE BLOCK – NOT TO BE MISSED!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Three Ringed Circus - Elaine Binney and the Jazz Rascals @ Hoochie Coochie
CD Review: Ben Williams - State of Art
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
London Jazz Festival Vocal Jazz Summit - Spice of Life.
Photos. (More to follow from Anthony?)
London Jazz Festival - Gwilym Simcock @ St. James's Church, Piccadilly.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum….
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
London Jazz Festival - David Sanborn/Joey DeFrancesco. Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre.
Tisha's Train Ride
Calling all bassmen
Monday, November 14, 2011
Preview - Lucian Ban - Enescu re-imagined
The Real Maine Street Jazzmen @ The Porthole North Shields.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
ACV @ The Bridge Hotel.

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- Tonight on BBC4 - 9:00pm.
- Tommy Henderson Recalls...
- Rahe - Rescue
- New Residency for the Vieux Carré Jazzmen
- CD Review - Tony Crombie and his Friends: Whole Lo...
- Happy Birthday Pete Gilligan
- Djangologie @ The Cherry Tree
- Tonight at the Cherry Tree.
- Seb Pipe's Life Experience -Tonight's Splinter @ T...
- Any Jacky Denton tapes out there?
- Change of Day at the Bell and Bucket.
- Frank Brooker @ Blaydon Jazz Club. November 24th
- Claire Kelly Quartet – Hoochie Coochie, Nov. 24
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's.
- Searching for Summertime. BBC 4.
- Tomorrow night it's Blaydon or Hoochie.
- Twisted - Annie Ross
- The Jazz Café Documentary
- R.I.P Paul Motian
- CD Review - Sergio Mendes - Warner's Original Albu...
- Enescu re-Imagined @ The Sage.
- Searching For Summertime
- Wilbur's Fate @ The Bridge Hotel. November 20th
- CD Review - Charles Mingus - Warner's Original Alb...
- Charles Gayle & Han Bennink @ The Lit and Phil. No...
- Tomorrow (Monday Nov. 21) Night at The Sage
- Fiddlers Three
- The After Hours Charles Gayle
- From Paris (France) to Paris (Kentucky) - The Hot ...
- Greg Spero - A Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
- GABRIELE MIT DREI NEW BAND ON THE BLOCK – NOT TO B...
- Three Ringed Circus - Elaine Binney and the Jazz R...
- CD Review: Ben Williams - State of Art
- London Jazz Festival Vocal Jazz Summit - Spice of ...
- London Jazz Festival - Gwilym Simcock @ St. James'...
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum….
- London Jazz Festival - David Sanborn/Joey DeFrance...
- Tisha's Train Ride
- Calling all bassmen
- Preview - Lucian Ban - Enescu re-imagined
- The Real Maine Street Jazzmen @ The Porthole North...
- ACV @ The Bridge Hotel.
- Radio Times
- CD Review: Keith Stephen's Trio and Caroline Irwin...
- Farewell Michael Garrick M.B.E.
- Louise Gibbs and Five Pieces of Silver @ Musicon D...
- Convergence Quartet @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle.
- Hannah and the Narrators @ Hoochie Coochie.
- Silver Threads among the Gold - Maine Street Jazzm...
- Student Performances @ King's Hall, Newcastle Univ...
- Alexander Hawkins & Harris Eisenstadt @ King's Hal...
- If I Were A Bell-Becky Kilgore Group
- Mingus on Mingus
- John Etheridge Gig Cancelled - update re refunds.
- R.I.P. Mito Loeffler.
- Goodbye Joe Frazier
- Brass Jaw @ The Lit and Phil, Thursday Nov. 3 - ta...
- Jazz Singers in the Making at The Sage.
- CD Review; Etta James - The Dreamer.
- John Mayall in Concert - Oli Brown Band @ The Sage...
- Tynemouth to Teignmouth
- Stop Press: R.I.P. Gordon Beck.
- Triple Treat Today. Lindsay Hannon and Two Hannahs
- Don Fairley and the Friends of Jazz - Ashington Ja...
- ACV Hit The Road Tomorrow
- Today, Sunday Nov 6 @ Whitley Bay Jazz Party
- Vibraphonia - Whitley Bay Jazz Party - Saturday
- Day 2 @ Whitley Bay - Program
- RIP Papa Bue
- Late News - Tonight at Hoochie.
- The Bud Tones at Hoochie Coochie Thursday 3rd Nove...
- Brass Jaw @ The Lit & Phil. November 3rd
- Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party 2011
- R.I.P. Beryl Davis
- Swing Swing Swing! The Benny Goodman Sextet Revis...
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's.
- Things Ain't What They Used To Be
- A Monday Date
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