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Bebop Spoken There

Branford Marsalis: "As ignorance often forces us to do, you make a generalisation about a musician based on one specific record or one moment in time." - (Jazzwise June 2023).

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Postage

15491 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 512 of them this year alone and, so far, 133 this month (May 31).

From This Moment On ...

Tue 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 06: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Stu Collingwood (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums).

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED! BACK ON JUNE 15.
Thu 08: Easington Colliery Brass Band @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 08: Faye MacCalman + Blue Dust Archive @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Dilutey Juice + Ceramic @ The Ampitheatre, Sea Road, South Shields. 7:00pm. Free. A South Tyneside Festival event.
Thu 08: Lara Jones w. Vigilance State @ Lubber Fiend, Blandford Square, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Michael Littlefield @ the Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Country blues.
Thu 08: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Fri 09: Emma Rawicz @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm.

Sat 10: Miners' Picnic @ Woodhorn, Ashington. Music inc. Northern Monkey Brass Band (3:00-3:50pm); New York Brass Band (4:00-4:55pm).
Sat 10: Front Porch Three @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Americana, blues, jazz etc.
Sat 10: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 11: WORKSHOP: Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Workshop @ JG Windows, Newcastle. Time TBC. Further details tel. 0191 232 1356.
Sun 11: Jeremy McMurray's Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Ropner Park, Stockton TS18 4EF. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 11: Groovetrain @ Innisfree Sports & Social Club, Longbenton NE12 8TY. Doors 6:30pm. £15.00 (£7.00. under 16).
Sun 11: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Saturday, February 02, 2013

New Century Ragtime Orchestra at Caedmon Hall Feb. 2

Steve Andrews (ten/clt/vcl/mc); Jimmy McBriarty (alt/clt/vcl); Gavin Lee (ten/clt); Alan Marshall (clt/ten); Graham Hardy, Alistair Lord (tpt); Don Fairley (tmb); Ed Cross (vln); Neville Hartley (pno); Phil Rutherford (sousa); Keith Steephen (bjo/gtr) Nick Ward (dms); Caroline Irwin (vcl); Keith Nichols (pno).
(Review by Lance )
The first time I'd been back to Caedmon Hall since the changes. I can't detail the exact changes apart from the more spacious bar area. However, this sell-out event almost never got off the ground - a major disaster occurred!
They'd ran out of raffle tickets! Never mind that Steve Andrews had lost his notes - he can busk anything - but with the punters pouring in and no rafflers to sell to them - disaster If NCRO had been a Limited Company (some unkind people say they are anyway) they'd drop out of the FTSE 1,000,000!
Fortunately, Phil and Dave managed to find a back street raffle ticket seller and the world was saved from global meltdown.
Which was a relief because, without the NCRO's turn of the year concert, even Newcastle's win over Chelsea would pale into insignificance.
Circumstances decreed that I only stayed for the first set but what a cracking set it was!
How many bands do you know that open up with My Sweet Tooth Says I Want to But my Wisdom Tooth Says No? I bet you could could count them on your...well never mind... suffice to say this Fletcher Henderson number got the show well and truly on the road with vocal by Jimmy Mac and a few hot choruses here and there.
This  led to Junkman Rag, amusingly, and inventively, introduced by Steve Andrews. Neville gave his fingers a work out on this one.
At last! Caroline, respondent in shiny, satiny, gown slunk evocatively down to the stand and sang Guilty. This is a great song recorded by Ruth Etting, Al Bowlly, Ella, Whiting's daughter Margaret and many others. Caroline slotted in nicely among her peers.
Don't Be Like That, a cute, coy number preceded the band's take on Black and Tan Fantary - Graham and Don plungering.
Keith Nichols took over the piano stool and, with fellow guest Nick Ward, - the world's tallest drummer - . sang Mister Jelly-Lord and fingerbusted The Terror - an arrangement that featured the 3 saxes on clarinet. 
Ed Cross and Keith Stephen had a duo blast on Venuti/Lang's Wildcat, Nagasaki had Steve, singing, clarineting and tenor saxophoning as well as announcing.
Caroline sang Let's Do It - every red-blooded man in the room was queuing to take up the offer.
Jimmy Mac finished the set by singing Gonna Get a Girl. A great show and I'm only sorry I didn't catch the second set which Dave Kerr assured me would be even better!
Lance.
PS: The photo shows Keith and Caroline prior to the concert - perhaps writing a new song - Texting is better than words!

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