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Postage

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

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Jazz in Amsterdam Part 2 (of 3)

North Sea Jazz Club November 24
(Review by Ron Ainsborough.)
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Sidi Toure Band, Mala in Cuba Live & Gilles Peterson
This jazz club is located 1-2 miles from the centre of Amsterdam, and had a couple of quirks much to our amusement, firstly for drinks you have to buy tokens to use at the bars,cash is not accepted. Secondly you have to have bladder control because after you have had a drink you have two options to pay to use the toilets, one if you exercise that control and only need to go once it only costs you 50 cents, but if you have no control you can pay 2 euros and go as many times as you like (an absolute bargain!)
Different!
The night we were at the club starting at 10pm till5 am, a jazz festival was on, and as 5am is a bit past my bedtime we only stayed till 1am but in that time we saw the first band to play live (in one of two venues within the club) and they were call the 'Sidi Toure Band' and they were a band from Mali and comprised Sidi Toure on guitar and vocals, another guitarist, someone playing an amplified very 'small irregular shaped guitar type' string instrument with the strings secured and wrapped around the end of the wooden neck of the instrument (but what a sound he got out of it!), and last but not least, the drum sound which was a half spherical (wooden I think) drum placed flat on top of an amplified box which gave a bass drum sound in addition to a hand held sticks sound on the drum (no idea how it works,but again a great sound). The lyrics were all in French so I could not understand one word but the music was typically African (I  am told from the area of Africa where the blues/drum sounds originated?) and from the start the uninhibited Dutch were all dancing to the wonderful beat of the African sounds which finished after an hour with a great and well deserved ovation. It was a fascinating and very enjoyable set by a band, the likes of which, I had never seen live before. Again a concert to be remembered and not to be missed.
I had never heard of Sidi Toure till this night and have discovered they have toured small venues in the USA, have been to London, Sweden, Germany etc. recently.
After that we heard a Cuban sounds band comprising two conga drum players, a keyboards player with someone on an synthesizer (can't spell that to save my life!) who overpowered everything going on. Not Cuban in any respect so we left that part of the night to those that like that kind of thing and went back to the first venue. 
Gilles Peterson, a Swiss born DJ living in London(works for the BBC as well), who played his mix of heavily jazz influenced music which was good and listenable and served the dancing members of the club very well indeed. So we left at 1am after a very enjoyable and interesting night and would go again given the opportunity because they have a lot of top jazz on as their programme shows.
Ron Ainsborough.

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