Bebop Spoken There

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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

18699 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 573 of them this year alone and, so far this month (July 11) 27

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

From This Moment On

July

Wed 15: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 15: Willington Big Brass Bash @ Town Park, Willington. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Wed 15: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Café Needle’s Eye, Promenade, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea NE64 6XE. 6:00pm. Free. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Wed 15: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public). CANCELLED!
Wed 15: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 15: Side Café Orkestar @ The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.00 (£11.00. adv.); £12.00 concs (£8.00. concs adv.).

Thu 16: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 16: Spennymoor Big Brash Bash @ Jubilee Park, Spennymoor. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Thu 16: Coxhoe Little Brass Bash @ Village Green (Pit Wheel). 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Thu 16: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 7:30pm. Free. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Thu 16: Stevie Jay Duo @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free. Julija Jacenaite & Steve Glendinning.
Thu 16: DK Harrell @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £20.00 + bf. USA blues.
Thu 16: Paul Skerritt @ Angels' Share, St George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 2SX. 8:00pm. Free. Booking advised (0191 200 1975). Skerritt w. backing tapes.

Fri 17: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 17: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 17: Seaham Big Brass Bash @ Terrace Green, Seaham. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Fri 17: Newton Aycliffe Big Brass Bash @ Town Park, Newton Aycliffe. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Fri 17: Ray Stubbs R&B Allstars @ Billy Bootleggers, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ Sunderland Minster. 7:30pm. Old Black Cat Jazz Club.
Fri 17: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ St Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook. 7:30pm.
Fri 17: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Repas 7 by Night, Berwick. 8:00pm. Free. Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 8:00pm. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.

Sat 18: Streets of Brass @ Market Place, Durham City. 10:00am-4:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Sat 18: Brass Boat Cruise @ Boathouse, Elvet Bridge Jetty, Durham City. Departures at 10:30am, 12 noon, 1:30pm, 3:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £5.00 (all prices + bf). Durham Brass Festival. Various bands.
Sat 18: Party in the Park @ Wharton Park, Durham City. 5:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands. Entrance o/s Durham Railway Station (Northbound platform).
Sat 18: Zoë Gilby & Dean Stockdale @ FIKA Art Gallery, Morpeth. 6:30pm.
Sat 18: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00-9:00pm. £10.00.
Sat 18: Tyne Valley Big Band + Revolutionaires @ Pelton Community Centre. 7:00pm. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 18: Dale Storr @ The Straw Yard, The Barracks, Berwick. 7:30pm. £15.38. Solo piano.
Sat 18: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Red Lion Inn, Alnmouth. 8:30pm. Free. Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 8:00pm. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.

Sun 19: Brass Boat Cruise @ Boathouse, Elvet Bridge Jetty, Durham City. Departures at 10:30am, 12 noon, 1:30pm, 3:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £5.00 (all prices + bf). Durham Brass Festival. Various bands.
Sun 19: Jacob Egglestone Trio @ The Bandstand, The Sele, Hexham. 12 noon. Free.
Sun 19: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Bishop Auckland Town hall. 2:00pm. £7.00 (inc. bf). A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 19: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Table reservations (0191 261 8000). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Sun 19: Michael Young Trio @ Engine Room, Sunderland. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 19: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 19: SwanNek @ The Bandstand, The Sele, Hexham. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 19: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Twelve 06, High St., Newbiggin-by-the-Sea NE64 6DR. 3:00pm. Free. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Sun 19: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 19: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Hotel Gotham, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sun 19: Dale Storr: The Sounds of New Orleans @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Solo piano. POSTPONED!

Mon 20: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 20: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.

Tue 21: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Joe Deans.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Bill Harper and Anne Devere @ Blaydon Jazz Club.

Roly Veitch/James Birkett (gtrs); Neil Harland (bs) + Bill Harper (pno); Anne DeVere (vcl); Paul Edis (fl/clt); John Bell (vcl).
This was one of those nostalgia, memories, hellos and whatever became of? evenings. Oh yes - and there was some lovely music along the way.
Anne DeVere and Bill Harper had been staples of the north-east jazz/big band scene for many years before they moved to Brittany after becoming disenchanted with certain aspects of the UK and it must have warmed their very souls to have so many old friends turn out. I'm not going to list them all but there was Billy Nicholson, John Bell, Tommy Moran, Olive and Alan Rudd, Germaine Stanger, Brian Chester, Derek Cogger and many more musicians whose names I couldn't match to the faces plus entrepreneurs Taylor and Pollard from Ashington and Gateshead.Jazz Clubs. Jazz North East was represented by "Wor" Russell and Margaret Barnes.
Roly, James - to hell with formality - Jim (I never came to terms with calling Johnny Dankworth John either!) and Neil got things rolling with a  lightly swinging All of Me during which our guests of honour arrived with Bill sliding on to the piano stool mid chorus.
All The Things You Are - and there were many - Bill, Anthropology and Darn That Dream followed. This latter tune caused me to chuckle as I seem to recall that, many years ago, Bill was the first person I met who referred to it as Darn That Sock!
An up-tempo blues and a lush Body and Soul brought Paul Edis to the bandstand. Not to play piano but to blow Flute on Meditation and clarinet on, as Roly introduced it, A Nightingale Sang in Blaydon Square.
I'd heard Paul on flute before but not on clarinet and it was interesting listening to his  dry contemporary sound.
A nightingale DID sing in Blaydon after the break when Anne DeVere joined her husband for If You Could See Me Now followed by I'll Remember April and poignant tear-jerker, If You Were There. The voice is still there but a sore throat limited Anne from doing too much. Satin Doll swung. Former Mayfair crooner John Bell did a number finishing just in time for me to catch the 10:50 number 11 bus to Newcastle.
It had been a grand night and a nice gesture to two lovely people and of course Roly and everyone else who turned out.
Bill Harper plays the Cherry Tree on Monday.
Photos.
Lance.
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4 comments :

Liz said...

I have met Ann Devere would you believe! Many years ago Denys & I were at one of her gigs, goodness knows where, so long ago I cannot remember, but we got chatting with her, she & Denys had quite a bit in common being from the North East. We thought she was terrific, her name stuck in my memory as it always seemed quite glam!

Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:54:00 am
Ann Devere said...

Thank you Liz for your kind comment!
Contrary to popular belief my name is not a'stage name' it is all mine!! My ancestors came to England from Normandy with William the Conqueror. Unfortunately it appears to denote a person of the aristocracy and I'm a Gateshead lass although my kinsmen held the title of Earls of Oxford in Tudor times.Once again thanks and keep on truckin'!
Ann D

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:55:00 pm
Valerie Dawson said...

Hi Ann, Val Dawson here. If my memory serves me well we met at the "Turk's Head" in South Shields. I have often wondered how you were keeping, and hope you are well. I'm still living with fybromialgia but I am in reasonable health. I believe you are now living in Brittany. It sounds great. I still play "Listen Here" and wish I could see you both in a live performance again. I have just watched "Anonamous" and commented to my son that I wouldn't be surprised if you were a descendant of the Earl of Oxford as talent seems to be hereditory. Yours very sincerely, Val Dawson x.

Sunday, July 08, 2012 6:27:00 pm
Anne DeVere said...

Hello Val how lovely to hear from you!! I've thought of you often. Yes I'm crippled too with arfuritis LOL and need another op on my spine YUK! We love it here, absolutely no stress very beautiful and no litter, nice friends and neighbours(we're the only English in the village!!)Sorry I've just seen your posting--if you phone me and give me your number I can phone you straight back free for me--0033 297 22 57 51 would love to chat!!xx

Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:05:00 am

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