Bebop Spoken There

Dominick "Domo" Branch: ''Most people say drummers can't write, they're just time-keepers only beating on things. But I have a very musical brain.'' (DownBeat February, 2026)

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

18288 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 142 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Feb. 14), 42

From This Moment On ...

February

Thu 19: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: George Shearing Jazz Moments.

Fri 20: Alex Clarke w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT! Clarke w. Dean Stockdale, Mick Shoulder, Abbie Finn.
Fri 20: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 20: Squabble @ Warkworth Memorial Hall. 7:00pm. Steve Chambers (organ); Jude Murphy (double bass, vocals); Sid White (drums).
Fri 20: Jive Aces @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:00pm (6:30pm doors).
Fri 20: Alex Clarke w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ Sunderland Minster. 7:30pm. Clarke w. Dean Stockdale, Mick Shoulder, Abbie Finn.

Sat 21: ???

Sun 22: Musicians Unlimited: Big Band Blast @ West Hartlepool RFC. 1:00-3:00pm . Free.
Sun 22: Joe Steels Group @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. A Blue Patch album tour.
Sun 22: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Harben Kay Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 23: Joe Steels Group @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. A Blue Patch album tour.
Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Finn-Keeble Group @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00.
Tue 24: Liam Oliver & Shayo Oshodi @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 26: Castillo Nuevo Orquesta @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £6.50.
Thu 26: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00 adv.
Thu 26: Mick Cantwell Band @ The Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Blues.

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

Thursday, June 14, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARYL

Today is our favourite songstress' birthday - catch Daryl at The Lincoln Centre, New York on Monday June 18.
If you can't make it to 60th and Broadway then all is not lost.
Catch her at the Following;


Sunday
July 1, 2012
Cleethorpes Jazz Festival
Memorial Hall
www.grimsbyjazz.com
with Andy Cleyndert, bass


Monday
July 2, 2012
with Zoltan Sagi, reeds, Andy Cleyndert, bass

Tuesday
July 3, 2012
Rhondda Jazz Club
Treorchy, Wales

Wednesday
July 4, 2012
Swansea Jazzland
Wales
with Dave Cottle trio

July 6, 7, and 8, 2012
Birmingham International Jazz & Blues Festival
w/ Digby Fairweather

Monday
July 9, 2012
Boisdale Canary Wharf (London)
with Richard Pite

Tuesday
July 10, 2012
Pizza Express
Soho, London

Wednesday
July 11, 2012
Roffen, Kent
with Roan Kersey Lawson Trio

Thursday
July 12, 2012
Jazz at the Boathouse
Broxbourne Hertfordshire
www.broxbournerowingclub.org

July 13, 14, 2012
 with John Hallam, reeds, Frank Grime, bass

Monday
July 16, 2012
Daryl Sherman "Carrying Cole To Newcastle"
(Cole Porter, of course!)
 with John Hallam and Roy Percy
The Sage
The Sage Gateshead
St Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays,
Newcastle, UK
Ticket Office: 0191 443 4661

Tuesday
July 17, 2012
The Green Man (Norwich)
with Brian McAllister Trio

July 20,21, 2012

No excuse no matter where you live there is a gig near you.
Lance.

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