Gig of the Year | |
Hugh Cochrane: . | The Impossible Gentlemen @ Zefferelli's, Ambleside |
Ken Drew | Marian Crispell & Raymond McDonald @ N'cle Uni. |
Arun Ghosh @ Sage Gateshead | |
Laura Jurd/Paul Dunmall (jt) | |
Tony Eales | Igor Butman - Moscow Jazz Orchestra @ Wigan Jazz Festival |
Bobby Shew & LA Big Band @ LA Jazz Festival | |
Tommy Smith & SNJO Play Stan Kenton @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | |
Chris Finch | Trilok Gurtu, Paolo Fresu, Omar Sosa @ Sage Gateshead |
Flore | David Sanborn/Bob James @ Barbican (London Jazz Festival) |
Steve Horowitz | Arun Ghosh @ Sage Gateshead |
Ollie Howell Quintet @ The Bridge, Newcastle | |
Courtney Pine @ Hoochie Coochie | |
Kath Jobes | Lindsay Hannon Plus @ Sage Gateshead |
Lance | Keith Crombie Funeral/Wake @ Town Walls, Newcastle |
Emma Fisk @ Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party | |
Cecile McLorin Salvant & Daryl Sherman @ Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party | |
Liz | Michael Bublé @ O2 |
John Taylor | Martin Stephenson/Martin Taylor @ Ashington Festival |
Roly Veitch | Graeme Wilson Quartet @ Lit and Phil |
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Bebop Spoken There
Marc Myers: " If the original group with Baker was Dover sole, the group with Brookmeyer was beef stew." - (JazzWax, December 7, 2019).

Today Monday December 9
Afternoon
Jazz
Jazz in the Afternoon - Cullercoats Crescent Club, 1 Hudleston, Cullercoats NE30 4QS. Tel: 0191 253 0242. 1:00pm. Free admission.
Evening
St Cuth’s Big Band - St Cuthbert’s Society, 12 South Bailey, Durham DH1 3EE. 8:00pm. Free (donations). St Cuth’s Big Band ‘Christmas Concert’. Concert in dining hall, licensed bar
To the best of our knowledge, details of the above events are correct but may be subject to alteration.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013
CD/Gig of the Year Choices
R.I.P. Boyd Lee Dunlop

Lance.
Redemption Gigs 2014
Monday, December 30, 2013
Best Jazz Read of the Year: McPartland v Burton

Night Owl Blues
T.J. Muller's Honky Tonk Jazz Band @ Hoochie Coochie. December 29.
Last Saturday night I was watching the review Café Society Swing in a London theatre. It told the story of the Café Society night club that flourished in New York either side of World War 2. Tonight I was back there, or so it seemed! This was Hoochie's Sunday Night Stomp and it was a delightful and enlightening experience.
Pink Lane Jazz Co-op January Gigs
Sunday, December 29, 2013
A Sad Anniversary.

to be passed. This says much for the charisma of the man. A year on his name is still bandied about - sometimes with reverence other times just the opposite (probably in equal dozes). Whatever, he was a man who touched our hearts in many ways. His funeral and the wake that followed remains my gig of the year - I think it will be a one for all time.
Hugh Masekela on Radio 3 at Noon.
Russell.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Gilligan, Williams and Forbes December 27 - The Jazz Café
Gig of the Year. David Sanborn & Bob James @ The London Jazz Festival. Barbican, November 16, 2013.
My ticket to the concert was a wild card, a mystery trip as the group were unknown to me. My mind was a blank canvas. By the end of the first piece a rainbow of colour had been painted.
Gala Theatre Update.
February 21: Djangologie.
March 21: Mo Scott Trio.
April 25: James Birkett/Bradley Johnston Jazz Guitar Duo.
All concerts start 1pm. Admission £4.
Jazz Record Requests
Friday, December 27, 2013
Congratulations to Kate and John.
Lance.
CD Review: Jamie Taylor's Outside Line Quartet - Introducing Outside Line
However, I should have known better than to almost write it off after a few bars! These guys are from Yorkshire which is almost as good as being from Tyneside and, as the CD progressed, I realised there were no Trolls aboard.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Ulster Jazz Club
Thanks to Simon Spillett for drawing these programmes to my attention.
Lance.
Frank Griffith - Master of the Reeds.
Lance.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Farewell to Herb Geller and Yusef Lateef but not to Horace Silver
Post Christmas Jazz Radio by Russell
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And on iplayer... Monday 23 (Radio 2, 10:00 pm) Jingle Bell Joe: Radio 2 House Party features Joe Stilgoe and his band. Guests include Caro Emerald.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Sting: When The Last Ship Sails. BBC1 Sunday December 22.
Jam Session @ The Salsa Cafe, Sunday December 22
Monday, December 23, 2013
Gig/CD of the Year reminder.
Lance.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Simon Spillett Quartet @ The Oval Tavern, Croydon.
(Review by Lance).
Café Society Swing @ Leicester Square Theatre, London. December 21.
Cherise Adams-Burnett, China Moses, Alexander Stewart (vcls); Harold Sanditen (narrator/vcls); Alex Webb (MD/comp/arr/pno); Sue Richardson (tpt/flug); Nathanial Facey (alt); Frank Griffith (ten/clt); Nathanial Cross (tmb); Jo Caleb (gtr); Miles Danso (bs); Shane Forbes (dms). Directed by Simon Green.
Mo Scott Quartet – The Jazz Café December 20
Rae Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band – 'Jazz @ the Fell @ The Legion Christmas Party – December 20
Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone. December 19
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Deidre Cartwright Trio @ Jan's Bar, Stoke Newington.
QUIZ ANYONE? - Ruth Lambert Trio at The Gala Theatre, Durham. December 20
Friday, December 20, 2013
Gateshead International Jazz Festival 2014 - Full line-up now finalised.
Jazz Singers – Enhance Your Skills with Bulgarian Singing
Thursday, December 19, 2013
GREGORY PORTER FOR HOOCHIE COOCHIE MARCH 14
ACV @ Schmazz @ The Cluny. December 17
Jeremy McMurray-Roly Veitch Quartet with Mark Toomey @ Blaydon Jazz Club Christmas Party. December 15
My CDs of the Year
Buck Clayton Legacy Band - Claytonia
Cécile McLorin Salvant - Womanchild
Tommy Smith - In The Spirit of Duke.
The following are within a whisker away:
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Melody Maker - Gone but not forgotten

Interestingly in 1926 it cost one shilling yet by 1960 it was only six old pence! If only everything had come down like that.
Lance.
Santa's Last Stand @ Ned Kelly's
Lance.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The People's Kitchen Christmas Bash! Monday December 16
Silver, Dead or Alive?
Bebop Spoken Here Talks to Brian Bennett
Harlem Hot Stompers @ Boston Spa December 14

CD Review: Paul Harrison - Ten Play Ten

(Review by Lance).
Monday, December 16, 2013
Jam Session - Splinter at the Bridge December 15
R.I.P. Joe Errington


Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sunday Jam @ Salsa Café
(Review by Lance)
Paul Gowland’s Allstars – The Jazz Café 14/12/13
No More Anonymous.
Lance.
PS: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Adolph Hitler are barred from this site.
CD Review: David Bach - Other World.

Saturday, December 14, 2013
Travel Update for Blaydon
The old
Seven Jazz Leeds springs into action!
Paul Edis Trio – Jazz Café December 13
Friday, December 13, 2013
In Tune - BBC 3 (4:30pm.
CD Launch: The River Flows at Night - Saxophonics @ The Lit and Phil
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Jazz Café Dates for the Diary.
Sunday Night Stomp End of Year Special.
Come along to Swing Tyne!'s 'Sunday Night Stomp' end of year special on Dec 29 at Hoochie Coochie? Fresh from his day job with Pokey LaFarge, we have TJ Muller and his newly-formed Honky-Tonk Jazz Band playing a live set. Free entry! Come along!
Gaudencio Thiago De Mello
Thanks to Maurice Summerfield for drawing this New York Times article to my attention.
Lance.
Jim Hall by Maurice Summerfield

Jim Hall by Jim Douglas
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Bopping All Hours
Lance.
RIP Jim Hall (1930-2013)
Monday, December 09, 2013
Gig of the Year
PS: and next year - no prizes for guessing what my Film of the Year will be!
ALT – Splinter @ the Bridge December 8
Durham University Big Band Gig This Wednesday (Dec. 11)
Free entry, but we will be collecting money on behalf of Durham Foodbank throughout the night. Durham Foodbank provide nutritionally balanced meals to over 1100 people in crisis every month throughout
CD Review: Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato – Limitless
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Jam Session @ Salsa.
Jazz has always been a battlefield. Whether it be the swing/bop or the trad/modern confrontations of yesteryear or the petty squabbles of today when Jazz needs a united front more than it ever has.