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Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 2024).

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

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

Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

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

Sunday, March 03, 2013

CD Review: Kai Hoffman: Do It While You Can


Kai Hoffman (vocals and French horn); Gunther Kurmayr (piano); Geoff Gascoyne (double bass); Sebastiaan de Krom (drums); also Gavin Broom (trumpet) and Derek Nash (saxophone) on track 4
(Review by Ann Alex).
This CD is a thoroughly enjoyable, lively, sassy, whirlwind of songs sung and played well, songs with an assertive feel, just in time for International Woman’s Day although the timing is a coincidence so far as I can tell.  Kai Hoffman, a resident singer at Ronnie Scott’s, is hailed on the festival circuit, and rumour has it that she also looks good in Retro clothing! (so our editor tells me).
The album opens in fine style with Fran Landesman’s rather naughty Some Boys,, listing almost  everything a woman needs to know about men, and continues with soft cymbals and insistent beats on History Repeating; on Pure Imagination the drums play a little tune (bongos?) and the mood is  more reflective.  Then comes the title track with the main message, to live for the moment and enjoy yourself.  Quote ‘ sometimes you got to act before you really understand’. I’ve Never Met A Guy Who’s Perfect provides this very amusing line ‘I’m sick of silver foxes, who don’t tick the boxes’.  Jazz standards included are Make Someone Happy, a very zippy Sweet Georgia Brown and What a Little Moonlight Can Do.   I was surprised by the final track The Masquerade Is Over, a sad song about the end of a love affair, after all the optimism of the other tracks, but perhaps it was intended to drive home the message of doing it while you can.  The musicians certainly did it while they could with aplomb and solos on most tracks.      
If this CD is anything to go by, the album launch gig and party at Ronnie Scott’s on Wednesday March 20 will be great fun.  For further details email launch@broadreachrecords.co.uk or visit http://www.kaihoffman.co.uk/ but you’re probably too late already!
Kai Hoffman: Do It While You Can is now available on itunes or from Amazon.
Ann Alex  

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