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

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

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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Wed 22: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 22: Darlington Big Band @ Traveller's Rest, Cockerton. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public). Note change of venue - CANCELLED CEILING COLLAPSED!
Wed 22: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 22: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 4:00-6:00pm. Free.
Thu 23: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Bar Loco, Newcasatle. From 6:30pm 'til late. Free. Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra jam session. All welcome (students & non-students).
Thu 23: Kerrin Tatman + John Garner & John Pope @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 23: Sunna Gunnlaugs & Julia Hülsmann @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm. A two-piano gig. A Sage Gateshead-JNE promotion.
Thu 23: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano.
Thu 23: Sleep Suppressor @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00., £8.00. adv. Upstairs.
Thu 23: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor @ The Sage. March 8, 2013

(Review by Russell).
The Sage’s principal concert hall (Hall One) seats 1700 patrons. The appearance of guitarists Tommy Emmanuel and Martin Taylor ensured that a good number of those seats were occupied – no mean feat in these straightened times on a cold winter’s night (spring has most definitely not yet sprung). Aussie Emmanuel has toured the world tirelessly for many years, so too Scotland’s Taylor, earning the right to perform at such a prestigious venue as the Sage Gateshead.
Emmanuel spoke of his many visits to the north east’s smaller performance spaces (the intimate Buddle Arts Centre in Wallsend, Sunderland’s equally intimate Ropery down in the docklands of Deptford and in Newcastle the Tyne Theatre before graduating to the famed City Hall) and told how he set his sights on securing a booking at what was then a construction site on the banks of the Tyne from which the Sage Gateshead would rise to dominate the physical and musical landscape.
Our musical journey in Hall One took us from Dick McDonagh and Carl Kress (Cole Porter’s’s Heatwave), Goodman’s Jersey Bounce to a Lennon and McCartney medley. Along the way we stopped off to hear more from Benny Goodman (A Smooth One, a la Charlie Christian), Fats Waller (Honeysuckle Rose), a blues, Secret Love (the imperious Doris Day is alive and kicking!) and others. Emmanuel switched from one beautiful acoustic guitar to another, sitting then standing as the mood took him, all the while demonstrating a mastery of dynamics. The Aussie showed he is no mean tunesmith with two or three crowd pleasers; the ever-popular Angelina and a brace of new ones - Blood Brother and My Travelling Clothes. All this before his show-stopper – Somewhere over the Rainbow.
Martin Taylor, a bona fide jazz guitarist (he is an endorsee of Peerless guitars and one lucky person will be entered into a hat to win the guitar that was in his hands on stage at the Sage should they purchase a copy of his latest CD at one of the gigs on this tour!), wasn’t to be outdone. Taylor’s first few appearances on Tyneside as a young man were back in the day at the Corner House Hotel. It was evident then that he was destined for the jazz stratosphere (Stephane Grappelli came calling) and he has maintained his pre-eminence to this day. Any doubters were silenced with this selection – They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Lullaby of Birdland and a simply brilliant version of I Got Rhythm (Taylor’s  simultaneous improvisation of melody line and bass line was and is the eighth wonder of the world!). A night for students of the guitar. A night for lovers of great music. A great night out at the Sage Gateshead.
Russell.                    

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