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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".

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Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

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16051 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 1058 of them this year alone and, so far, 12 this month (Dec. 6).

From This Moment On ...

December

Thu 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay, Newcastle. 12 noon - 4:00pm. £26.00 (inc 3-course meal in in St Mary's Lighthouse Suite). SOLD OUT!
Thu 07: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 07: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.Donations. Feat. Mark Sanders. CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00. Downstairs. CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club: Just Friends @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. Guest band night w. Richie Emmerson, Ian Bosworth, Dave Archbold, Ron Smith, Mark Hawkins. 9:00pm.

Fri 08: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 08: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 08: Giles Strong Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle. 1:00pm. £7.00.
Fri 08: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Woodland Village Hall, Bishop Auckland. 7:00pm. £12.00.
Fri 08: Sleep Suppressor + Redwell @ Head of Steam, Neville St., Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv); £5.00. student.
Fri 08: Hot Club du Nord @ St Cuthbert's Church, Shadforth, Co. Durham.
Fri 08: Têtes de Pois + Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £8.00.

Sat 09: Prudhoe Community Band @ Central Station, Newcastle. 10:00am - 12 noon. Charity fundraiser.
Sat 09: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Skinnergate, Darlington. 1:00pm.
Sat 09: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 09: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Middleton & Todridge Village Hall, Morpeth. 7:30pm. £12.00., £6.00.
Sat 09: Paul Skerritt @ Slaley Hall, Hexham NE47 0BX. 7:30pm. From £42.00.

Sun 10: Musicians Unlimited’s Xmas Party with Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. MU 1:00-3:00pm; Zoë Gilby Quartet 4:00-6:00pm. Tickets: £7.50.
Sun 10: Alan Law, Paul Grainger & Abbie Finn @ Darlington Market, Market Square, Darlington. 1:00pm. Free. A ‘Christmas Market’ outdoor gig. Wrap up warm!
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Funk Soul Sista @ Stack, Seaburn. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Beth Clarke @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Whittingham Memorial Institute, Alnwick. 7:30pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 10: Tele-Port @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Zhenya Strigalev.

Mon 11: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Interim Final Recitals @ Newcastle University. Details TBC.

Tue 12: Stu Collingwood Organ Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:00pm. £10.00.

Wed 13: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 13: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 13: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 13: Bold Big Band @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 13: Giles Strong Quartet @ Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

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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