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Bebop Spoken There
Guy Barker: "You have to play it [the trumpet] every day or you just won't be match-fit." - (Jazz Rag, Winter 2019.)

Today Thursday December 12
Afternoon
Jazz
Vieux Carré Jazzmen - Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone NE27 0DA. Tel: 0191 266 6173. 12:00pm. Free.
Note earlier time for this week only!
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Evening
Jazz
Hot Club du Nord - Lubetkin Theatre, East Durham College, Willerby Drive, Peterlee SR8 2RN. Tel: 0191 518 2000. 7:00pm. £10.00. (£5.00. under 18s). 'Jazz at the Lubetkin'.
Gala Big Band - Gala Theatre & Cinema, Millennium Place, Durham DH1 1WA. Tel: 03000 266 600. 7:30pm. £10.00. (£8.00. concs.). ‘Gala Big Band Does Christmas’.
Durham University Big Band - Dunelm House, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AN. Tel: 0191 334 1777. Free. 7:30pm. ‘Jazzy Christmas’.
Indigo Jazz Voices - The Globe, Railway Street, Newcastle NE4 7AD. 7:30pm. £5.00. (£2.00. student).
Maine Street Jazzmen - Sunniside Social Club, Hollywell Lane, Sunniside, Gateshead NE16 5NJ. Tel: 0191 488 7347. 8:30pm. Free.
Tees Hot Club w. Gus Smith (vocals); Dave Stansfield (tenor sax); Ted Pearce (keys) - Dorman’s Club, Oxford Road, Middlesbrough TS5 5DT. Tel: 01642 823813. 8:30pm. Free.
New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band - Oxbridge, Oxbridge Lane, Stockton on Tees TS18 4AW. 8:30pm. £2.50.
Blues/Soul/Funk/Etc.
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To the best of our knowledge, details of the above events are correct but may be subject to alteration.

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).