Roly Veitch (vocals,
guitar & banjo), James Birkett (guitar & banjo).
(Review by Russell).
Bebop Spoken Here covers the jazz
waterfront and beyond including the north east’s legendary blues scene (jazz is
blues, as someone once said) and initiatives such as Ruth Lambert’s thriving
buskers’ night down at the Bell
and Bucket. The Blaydon Aces are very much part of this cultural firmament.
Local lad Roly Veitch plays jazz guitar, sings a song or two, runs a jazz club
and does sundry other things yet somehow finds the time to research and rework
the tunes of Geordie tunesmiths down the ages.
In the company of his friend
(and virtuoso guitarist) James Birkett, Veitch lovingly presents songs of the
Geordie dialect – the well known and in some cases the long lost. A Blaydon
Aces’ concert is a musical treat and an education into the bargain. Veitch took
time to talk about each song and its composer, developing the social and
political context of the material. Keelmen, pitmen and regular Geordie folk
featured in tales of workers’ lives, loves and life’s occasional absurdities.
Russell
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