October.
Fri 23: Sara Oschlag w. Arnie Somogyi Trio @ The Lit & Phil. 1:00pm. Sara Oschlag (vocals); Ben Lawrence (piano); Arnie Somogyi (double bass); John Hirst (drums). SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: Emma Fisk’s Hot Club du Nord @ Gala Theatre, Durham. 1:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 23: Maja Bugge & Dave Evans @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Fri 23: Knats @ King Street Social Club, North Shields. 7:00pm. £17.00., £14.70., £11.30., £5.50. SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: King Bees @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Superb Chicago blues band.
Fri 23: Sara Oschlag & Arnie Somogyi w. Ben Lawrence @ Ship Isis, Sunderland. 7:30pm. Sara Oschlag (vocals); Ben Lawrence (keyboards); Arnie Somogyi (double bass).
Fri 23: Ronnie Scott’s Soho Songbook @ Redhills, Durham. 8:00pm. James Pearson (piano); Sam Burgess (double bass); Chris Higginbottom (drums); Alex Garnett (sax); Polly Gibbons (vocals). Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: SwanNek + Jacob Egglestone @ Fabio’s Bar, Durham. 9:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Jo Harrop @ St Chad’s College, Durham. 2:00pm. Harrop w. Jamie McCredie, Paul Edis, Andy Champion & Peter Adam Hill. Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sat 24: Sing Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. £27.50. Tutor: Alexia Gardner. Louis Armstrong. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 24: Seb Rochford’s Finding Ways @ Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham. 3:00pm. Tara Cunningham (guitar); Simon Tong (guitar); Anders Christensen (bass); Seb Rochford (drums). Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ St Chad’s College, Durham. 4:00pm. VX & PE w. Andy Champion (double bass) & Steve Hanley (drums). Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sat 24: OUTRI @ Durham Fringe Academy, Durham. 4:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Pete Roth Trio @ Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham. 5:30pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Durham University Jazz Society: An Evening of Standards @ Durham University Music School, Durham. 5:30pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Rivkala @ Fabio’s Bar, Durham. 6:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sat 24:Eleonora Kouneni @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. Kouneni (vocals), Paul Edis (piano). Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sat 24: Marvin Muoneké w. Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Gala Theatre, Durham. 7:30pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sat 24: Knats @ Fabio’s Bar, Durham. 9:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sat 24: Kind of Blu Jazz Jam @ Radisson Blue Hotel, Durham. 10:30pm. House rhythm section: Paul Edis, Ken Marley & Steve Hanley. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Paul Edis workshop: Another Week, Another Composition - How I Compose @ Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College, Durham. 10:30am. £16.00. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Jo Harrop workshop: From Chester-le-Street to LA: A Singer’s Journey @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 11:00am. £8.50. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Janette Mason workshop: The Art of Arranging @ Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College, Durham. 12:30pm. £16.00. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Dean Stockdale Quartet: Celebrating Oscar Peterson @ Durham University Music School. 1:00pm. Line-up: Dean Stockdale (piano); Jamie Taylor (guitar); Gavin Barras (double bass); Gaz Hughes (drums). Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sun 25: Tom Atkinson’s Electric Miles: Celebrating Jack Johnson @ Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham. 2:00-3:15pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: SULA @ St Chad’s College, Durham. 2:30pm. Kezia Abouma (piano), Aleks Dimitrova (bass), Miranda Radford (drums). Durham Jazz Festival. NOTE NEW TIME (2.30pm).
Sun 25: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Swing into Sunday @ St Oswald’s Institute, Durham. 2:30pm. Lindy Jazz. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Sara Oschlag w. Arnie Somogyi Trio @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Sara Oschlag (vocals); Richard Wetherall (keyboards); Arnie Somogyi (double bass); John Hirst (drums).
Sun 25: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free. Ruth Lambert (vocals); Alan Law (keyboards); Paul Grainger (double bass). RESCHEDULED to NOV. 1
Sun 25: Marvin Muoneké Quartet @ St Chad’s College, Durham. 4:00pm. Line-up: Dean Stockdale (piano); TBC (double bass); Abbie Finn (drums). Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Janette Mason Rewired @ Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, Durham. 4:30pm. Line-up: Janette Mason (piano); Jakub Cywiński (double bass); Eric Ford (drums). Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Old Cinema Launderette, Durham. 5:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival. SOLD OUT!
Sun 25: Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion @ Redhills Durham Miners’ Hall, Durham. 6:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £3.00.
Sun 25: Sara Oschlag w. Arnie Somogyi Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Sara Oschlag (vocals); Richard Wetherall (piano); Arnie Somogyi (double bass); John Hirst (drums).
Sun 25: Durham University Jazz Society - Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s Bar, Durham. 8:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Sun 25: Olivia Cuttill Quintet + King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys @ Redhills Durham Miners’ Hall, Durham. 8:00pm. Durham Jazz Festival.
Mon 26: Sue Ferris Quintet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 26: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 27: Alan Law @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 2:00pm. Free. Alan Law (piano) w. guest TBC.
Tue 27: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free (donations).
Wed 28: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 28: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 28: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 29: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 29: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00.
Thu 29: Castillo Nuevo Orquesta @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. £6.50. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 29: Simon Taylor Band @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. £8.00.
Thu 29: King Bees @ The Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Superb Chicago blues band.
10 comments :
What an outstanding voice - Sandi Russell's performance was stunning!
Having heard of Ms. Russell's upcoming performance at the Lit and Phil I was very keen to attend and I was not disappointed. Whilst piano and bass provided sensitive accompaniment it was the richly controlled voice and the enlivening presence of Ms. Russell which dominated the evening.
I can't wait to hear her again - soon! It would be fantastic to hear her with a broader more flexible sound in support - then we might really get to hear her cut loose and display the full range of her prodigious vocal talents!
I agree with Sue's comments and am more than a little surprised (and disappointed)that the Lance Liddle review focused more on the efforts of the ACCOMPANIST, Paul Edis, rather than on the MAIN ATTRACTION, which was Sandi Russell. I have had the good fortunate to attend many of Sandi's concerts over the years. During that time, she has been accompanied by various artists BUT it is and always has been Sandi's voice that stands out, over and above whomever tinkles away in the background.
Actually the review was by Russell, one of our regular reviewers, not myself. However, although I wasn't there it sounded a fair review and to dismiss Paul Edis - one of our finest pianists and accompanists - as someone tinkling in the background does an injustice both to the pianist and to Sandi for whom he is currently her first call accompanist.
SANDI RUSSELL’s performance at the Lit & Phil on 12 October was astounding! No-one would have guessed it from the completely unbalanced review that appeared on this blog site the next day. It seems that, throughout a dramatic two-hour display of virtuoso vocal range and inventiveness, your reviewer only had ears for the piano accompanist and his bassist.
Perhaps the writer is ignorant of the great tradition of jazz divas which Sandi Russell represents? No less a musician than Humphrey Lyttelton placed her with Billie Holiday; she reminds Time Out of Carmen MacRae, and has been compared by Lance Liddell on this very blog site with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.
Or maybe this reviewer is unfamiliar with the repertoire of jazz vocals so generously presented by Ms Russell on that exciting evening? Mention is made of her anecdote about Thelonius Monk, but not her superb rendering of ‘Ruby, My Dear’, or her brilliantly funky ‘In Walked Bud’, in which Sandi Russell’s pyrotechnic scatting makes up for the horns and other instruments not present.
Strange that, on a blog site called ‘Be Bop Spoken Here’, the reviewer had nothing to say about Sandi Russell’s wonderfully entertaining version of the Betty Carter song ‘Please Do Something’. Nothing either about the beautifully melodic standards she has made her own, such as ‘Forget Me’ and ‘The Nearness of You’, confirming John Fordham’s comment in the Guardian that ‘expat American Russell breathes new life into the most familiar materials’.
The capacity audience in the warm ambience of Newcastle’s historic venue certainly recognised that they were in the enchanting presence of a ‘unique vocalist’ (Jazz Improv, New York), offering ‘top notch jazz’ (The Musician, London). Their enthusiasm and prolonged applause – not least for Ms Russell’s stunning rendition of Abby Lincoln’s ‘Throw it Away’ – made up for the shortcomings of your reviewer.
If you missed this outstanding event and want to judge for yourself, go to SANDI RUSSELL’s website (www.sandirussell.co.uk) and come to her next Newcastle performance on Wednesday 21 November at the Mansion House, Fenwood Road, Jesmond, NE2 1TS (www.newcastlemansionhouse.co.uk).
Sir/Madam, live reviews can never be objective. Jazz in particular always has been and always will be a subjective area. That our reviewer chose to record his appreciation of the accompanists - as I'm sure Sandi herself did during the concert - in no way implies he didn't appreciate her efforts.
Both our reviewer and yourself refer to Sandi's up and coming gig at the Mansion House on November 21. Perhaps you would care to submit a review on that one?
Dear Lance,
Good to hear from you, but why doesn't Bill Russell speak for himself (and use his full name to avoid confusion)? He can of course say what he likes, but that won't make his reviews either fair, balanced, informed or even appropriate.
Bill's decision to ERASE the singer (i.e. the principal musician)from his account of this exceptional performance was outrageous, as other comments testify.
Think, for a moment, what such erasure means to an African American immersed in the culture and history of jazz, who is also an outstanding interpreter of it!
We like Paul Edis too, but he can be heard regularly in the North. Sandi Russell more often performs in London or New York with international musicians, so it's a rare delight to hear her in Newcastle.
It's kind of you to suggest that I review Sandi's upcoming performance on 21 November, but it would be much more appropriate for you to do so yourself!
Russell is our reviewer's first name and to the best of my knowledge has never been known as Bill. Come to that, why are you "anonymous" you sound as if you know me?
As regards reviewing, our reviewers have carte blanche to express their opinion as indeed do those who comment.
The injustice, sir, was to Sandi Russell with that 'non-review'. Obviously, after seeing the other comments below, I can assume that I am not the only one who felt that way. Oh and by the way, I, for one, only used anon because your blog rejected my name & email address. Sincerely, Antoinette Freeman
Having not been able to get to the Sandi Russell I was pleased to to read the brief review on BSH which seemed to give a positive sense of a very good gig and of the singer and the musicians. I look forward to seeing her next gig at the Mansion House. In the meantime, I have to say that the comments are providing some interesting, if slightly surreal, entertainment. Populated by as diverse a selection of characters to be found this side of Desolation Row, with an assortment of Russells, including Sandi, Russell and the mysterious 'Bill', Lance Liddle and his alter ego, Lance Liddell and the Machiavellian reviewer with his tendency towards post-structuralist Derridean reviews written 'under erasure'. Then there is the alternative Long John
Silver inspired jazz website 'Be Bop Spoken Here? Arrh, to be sure, Matey'. It's going to be a fascinating crowd at the Mansion House gig....
JC (nee Russell)
J.C - you are in the frame to review that gig!
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