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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

18383 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 247 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 17 ), 57

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

March

Mon 30: Gerry Richardson Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 30: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 31: Bede Trio @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Albert Hills Wright (alto sax); Finn Carter (piano); Michael Dunlop (double bass).

April

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Musicians playing classical & orchestral music.
Thu 02: The Noel Dennis Band @ Prohibition Bar, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RU. 7:00pm (doors). £10.84. Quartet plus special guest Zoë Gilby. Over 21s only.
Thu 02: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 02: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00. adv..
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Monday, November 05, 2012

CD Review: Landing Ground Laura Jurd

The jazz quartet: Laura Jurd (trumpet), Elliot Galvin (piano), Conor Chaplin (double bass) and Corrie Dick (percussion). 
The string quartet (the Ligeti Quartet): Mandhira de Saram (violin), Patrick Dawkins (violin), Richard Jones (viola) and Ben Davis (cello). 
(Review by Russell)

 Laura Jurd’s debut CD Landing Ground places the trumpeter in the front rank of young composers emerging from prestigious music schools across the country.

Still in her early twenties, Jurd studied composition with Issie Barratt and is a multiple prize winner (including the Dankworth Jazz Composition Award 2011). The album comprises nine tracks linked thematically to produce a work of remarkable maturity from one so young. Six of the tracks highlight Jurd’s writing for the ensemble - Landing Ground fuses jazz quartet and string quartet – and three short improvised pieces pitches the composer’s  trumpet in duet setting with Ben Davis’ cello, then pianist Elliot Galvin and finally drummer Corrie Dick. Jurd writes about ‘departure’, ‘reminiscence’ and ‘of a return home’. There is a wistful, filmic quality to the album with more than a suggestion of late 50s Miles Davis in Jurd’s playing and her writing embraces European twentieth century classical music.
Landing Ground is available now on Chaos Collective (CC001) and officially released today (November 5).
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