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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Monday, November 05, 2012

CD Review: Borders Breach

(Review by Russell).
Borders the new album from Breach is like a teasing firework - lit, ready to explode. The beauty of it is it never quite goes BANG! The trio fizzes along, engaged in an exercise of   collective restraint and they succeed in some style.
In concert guitarist Graeme Stephen sits down to play - not for him the axe man pose - and it is likely that the recording of this new release saw him seated alongside Paul Harrison (organ and electronics) and Chris Wallace (drums and percussion). The trio of ex-pat Canadian Wallace (the man of the thousand yard stare), Englishman Harrison and Stephen work through eight compositions (three written by Wallace, four by Harrison and one traditional Macedonian folk melody arranged by Stephen). The Stephen arrangement of Nakedonsko opens the album with no little humour. Subsequent tunes are hewn from a darker seam, the groove decidedly down beat, subverted by a retro vibe. Harrison tips his hat at the Hammond masters of an earlier generation, threatens to go leftfield, thinks better of it and falls in line. Wallace’s Judgement swings effortlessly as Stephen’s guitar and (minimal) electronics sprawl across the landscape (a landscape populated by the ghosts of Gary Boyle’s Isotope, Joe Morris’ decidedly over the border leftfield sound and Celtic compatriot Mark McKnight). The eponymous Borders (comp. Harrison) features the propulsive drumming of Wallace and Harrison is let loose on Harumph (comp. Wallace). Breach can be heard in concert on Thursday November 8 at the Central Bar in Gateshead.
The CD Borders (BREACHCD02) is out now.
Russell                                

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