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Bebop Spoken There
The Things They Say!
Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!
Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"
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February
Sat 04: Alligator Gumbo @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 04: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: John Pope - Up Your Rhythm Game. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 04: King Bees @ Grainger Market, Newcastle. 6:30pm (doors). Live music, comedy, DJs, food stalls. £10.00. advance, £15.00. on the door. Blues band King Bees on stage 9:45-11:15pm. A Great Market Caper event.
Sat 04: Jives Aces @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm.
Sat 04: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Sat 04: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sun 05 Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay. 12 noon.
Sun 05: Rivkala @ Cumberland Arms, Newcastle. 6:00pm.
Sun 05: Jive Aces @ Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 05: Dale Storr @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 05: Jam No.13 @ Fabio's, Saddler St., Durham. Free. Durham University Jazz Society jam session. All welcome (students & non-students alike).
Mon 06: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Tue 07: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Rob Walker (drums). Jam session reverts to a first & third Tuesday in the month schedule.
Wed 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 08: Jam session @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free. TBC.
Wed 08: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 08: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 08: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 4:00pm (this week only). Free.
Thu 09: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 09: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 10: Alan Barnes w Dean Stockdale Trio @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall. 1:00pm. £7.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 10: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 10: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 10: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 10: Alan Barnes w Dean Stockdale Trio @ Traveller's Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £12.00.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year Folks
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning @ The Jazz Café
"Goin' Home" (Earlier) with the Vieux Carré Jazzmen
Best YouTube 2011 video
Lance.
PS: Caro, along with Sandie Shaw and Buddy Greco, is on Jools tonight.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Gabriele Mit Drei Hoochie Coochie Thursday Dec. 29.
Tom Gilroy.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
R.I.P. Barbara Lea.
Tonight @ Hoochie
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Our Thoughts are With Dave Savill
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One Morning in December
"Keep the change", I said as I left for the more (less) serious shopping of the day.
Tell you what if this 1998 disc had been released in 2011 it would have been the one. Great players, great songs.
Lance.
PS: One Morning in May - what a song - Mel Tormé and Matt Monro also handled this one good! My wife tells me that Dave Weisser once sung it for her at Jim's Two Rooms way back when Jim had two rooms!
Jazz Esquires @ Porthole - Nowt as funny as folk!
Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party 2012 Tickets Now Available.
This, I'm informed from across the Atlantic, will be the last ever...
Details here.
Lance.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
R.I.P. Sam Rivers
Have Trombone Will Travel - Tommy Weatherley.
PS: If anyone can add a few names please do.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Gig of the Year - so far.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
How High The Moon?
Tonight on Radio 3.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Deirdre Cartwright & Kathy Dyson - All the Things You Are
Vieux Carré Jazzmen go AWOL!
Christmas in Kowlooney
Friday, December 23, 2011
Congrats Mark Cavendish!
Lance.
Christine Tobin - Tapestry Unravelled, The Sage, Gateshead, Dec. 22.
Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Christmas Jazz at Rosie Malone's.
Splinter @ The Bridge - Impressions
Merry Christmas to you and all the 'Bebop Spoken Here' followers and I hope to see you in the New Year. Jan 8th Ruth Lambert (plug!)
PS: Splinter & The Bridge?
Take it to The Bridge Xmas Party. The Chillingham, Heaton.
Gig of the Year time.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Lickety Split on The Concourse @ The Sage.
Tonight Two gigs for a Quid.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Gig of the Year Update
Stan Tracey Quartet @ The Sage. Dec.19.
Monday, December 19, 2011
The Blossoming Kylie
iplayer.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Tim Garland, Jim Mullen, Andy Champion and Adrian Tilbrook @ The Bridge.
Andy and Adrian - homegrown talent - were far from outshone and contributed on an equal basis with the visitors to make this such a memorable evening. Imagine if they'd had a rehearsal!
To top this, Stan Tracey at The Sage tomorrow (Monday Dec. 19) is going to have to play like he's never played before and on Thursday, also at The Sage, Christine Tobin too is going to have it all to do. But who knows what yet may happen before the year is over.
Photos.
Lance.
Etta James - the sad news.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Tough choices on Sunday and I don't mean beef or (Michael?) lamb.
Friday, December 16, 2011
R.I.P. Bob Brookmeyer.

Obituary.
Zoe Gilby Quartet @ Hoochie Coochie Dec. 15
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Lickety Split & Take it to the Bridge @ The Chilli. December 14th
Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's
Mingus on Mingus Update
Kevin Ellington Mingus
http://kck.st/vCCn8N
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Radio Jazz Online
Link to Jazz FM.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Lindsay Hannon Plus @ The Cherry Tree
Tonight @ The Cherry Tree.
Friday Night is Tony Bennett Night on BBC4.
ASHINGTON JAZZ CLUB CHRITMAS PARTY NIGHT AT THE ELEPHANT.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Info wanted on Teddy Warren and Newcastle's Paramount Jazz Band
PG3 @ The Aletaster, Low Fell
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Mine's Santa Baby what's yours?
Interesting to hear what others think.
Lance.
PS: Ann - here's a jazz(ish) version of Bleak Midwinter.
Clark Terry undergoes surgery.

Jazz Child: The Story of Sheila Jordan
Friday, December 09, 2011
Paul Booth Organ Trio @ The Corner House. December 8th
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Lindsay Hannon Plus @ Hoochie Coochie
Hoochie photos.
Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's and a surprise.
Olive Rudd (vcl); Herbie Hudson (tmb/hca/vcl); Jim McBriarty (alt/clt/vcl); George Richardson (pno); Alan Rudd (bs); Mike Humble (dms).
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- Happy New Year Folks
- Saturday Night/Sunday Morning @ The Jazz Café
- "Goin' Home" (Earlier) with the Vieux Carré Jazzmen
- Best YouTube 2011 video
- Gabriele Mit Drei Hoochie Coochie Thursday Dec. 29.
- Tom Gilroy.
- R.I.P. Barbara Lea.
- Tonight @ Hoochie
- Our Thoughts are With Dave Savill
- One Morning in December
- Jazz Esquires @ Porthole - Nowt as funny as folk!
- Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party 2012 Tickets Now Av...
- R.I.P. Sam Rivers
- Have Trombone Will Travel - Tommy Weatherley.
- Gig of the Year - so far.
- How High The Moon?
- Tonight on Radio 3.
- Deirdre Cartwright & Kathy Dyson - All the Things ...
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen go AWOL!
- Christmas in Kowlooney
- Congrats Mark Cavendish!
- Christine Tobin - Tapestry Unravelled, The Sage, G...
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone
- Christmas Jazz at Rosie Malone's.
- Splinter @ The Bridge - Impressions
- Take it to The Bridge Xmas Party. The Chillingham,...
- Gig of the Year time.
- Lickety Split on The Concourse @ The Sage.
- Tonight Two gigs for a Quid.
- Gig of the Year Update
- Stan Tracey Quartet @ The Sage. Dec.19.
- The Blossoming Kylie
- Tim Garland, Jim Mullen, Andy Champion and Adrian ...
- Etta James - the sad news.
- Tough choices on Sunday and I don't mean beef or (...
- R.I.P. Bob Brookmeyer.
- 30's Jazz
- Zoe Gilby Quartet @ Hoochie Coochie Dec. 15
- Lickety Split & Take it to the Bridge @ The Chilli...
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's
- Mingus on Mingus Update
- Radio Jazz Online
- Highlights Of The Ned Kelly's Christmas Big Band B...
- Lindsay Hannon Plus @ The Cherry Tree
- Tonight @ The Cherry Tree.
- Friday Night is Tony Bennett Night on BBC4.
- ASHINGTON JAZZ CLUB CHRITMAS PARTY NIGHT AT THE EL...
- Info wanted on Teddy Warren and Newcastle's Paramo...
- PG3 @ The Aletaster, Low Fell
- Mine's Santa Baby what's yours?
- Clark Terry undergoes surgery.
- Jazz Child: The Story of Sheila Jordan
- Paul Booth Organ Trio @ The Corner House. December...
- Lindsay Hannon Plus @ Hoochie Coochie
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's and a surprise.
- Xmas Dance for Peace - Cluny 2. Friday Dec. 9
- Le Bon Vivre
- Another Sunday Gig!
- Customs House Big Band. Open Rehearsal New Crown, ...
- Mingus on Mingus Project.
- Customs House Big Band @ The New Crown tonight.
- Music While You Drive
- Live Wire Unplugged @ The Cherry Tree
- Durham University Big Band @ The Bridge
- Long Range Weather Report
- Gabriele Mit Drei @ The Jazz Café
- Seb Pipe's Life Experience @The Bridge Hotel - Sun...
- Get your kicks on Elkie 66! - Elkie Brooks @ The S...
- "i" got it wrong and so did the Daily Mail.
- John Taylor @ St. Chad's College, Durham. Nov.10
- Tonight @ The Sage - Don't miss Elkie!
- Charles Gordon All Stars @ Hoochie Coochie.
- CD Review - Ronnie Ross Quintet.
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Rosie Malone's.
- CD Review - PARTIKEL: Cohesion.
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