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16034 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 1041 of them this year alone and, so far, 73 this month (Nov. 27).

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December

Sat 02: Paula Jackman's Jazz Masters @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00.
Sat 02: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 02: Abbie Finn Trio @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm.
Sat 02: Tenement Jazz Band @ John Marley Centre, Newcastle. Swing Tyne Winter Social. £8.00. + bf. Advance purchase only, no admission at the door. BYOB. Lindy hop workshop from 11:00am. £39.00.
Sat 02: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ The Masham, Hartburn Village, Stockton. 7:00pm. Feat. Noel Dennis.
Sat 02: Classic Swing @ The Nuthatch, 9 - 11 Bedford St, Middlesbrough TS1 2LL. 7:00-9:00pm. Classic Swing in trio format.
Sat 02: Paul Skerritt w. Danny Miller Big Band @ Westovian Theatre, South Shields. 7:30pm.
Sat 02: Vermont Big Band @ Whitley Bay FC. 7:30pm. £10.00. (inc. hot buffet). Tickets available from WBFC’s Seahorse pub club house.
Sat 02: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Ponteland Social Club, Northumberland. 7:30pm. £18.00 (inc. stotties & soup supper). A fundraiser for Hexham Constituency Labour Party.
Sat 02: Durham Dynamics & Basement Jazz @ Kingsgate Bar & Café, Durham Students’ Union. 7:30pm. £5.00. (£4.50. concs.). ‘Fab & Festive’. A cappella & jazz. Abba, Mariah Carey & more.
Sat 02: Tom Remon & Laurence Harrison @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. Xmas party night inc. buffet & special raffle. £3.00.
Sat 02: Groovetrain @ The Unionist Club, Laygate, South Shields. 9:00pm.

Sun 03: The Central Bar Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. The Central Bar Quartet plays Lou Donaldson’s Gravy Train. Featuring Jamie Toms.
Sun 03: Paul Skerritt @ Smith’s Arms, Carlton, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:00pm.
Sun 03: Johnny Hunter Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 03: Jam session @ The Schooner, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Free.

Mon 04: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 04: Northern Monkey Brass Band @ People’s Kitchen, Bath Lane, Newcastle. From 5:30pm. On-street gig supporting the work of the People’s Kitchen charity. Wrap up warm! Donate!
Mon 04: Michael Young Trio w Lindsay Hannon @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £8.00.
Mon 04: Durham University Jazz Orchestra + Durham University Big Band @ Durham Castle DH1 3RW. 8:30pm. £6.00.; £5.00. concs; £4.00. DSM. ‘Jazzy Christmas’.

Tue 05: Customs House Big Band @ All Saints Church, Cleadon. 7:00pm. Concert in the church hall. BYOB.
Tue 05: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Sid White. The best free show in town!

Wed 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 06: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 8:00pm. Free. Note later start time, concert performance (open to the public).
Wed 06: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

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.
Thu 07: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00. Downstairs.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 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: 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.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Preview: Gwyneth Herbert - The Sea Cabinet - Sage Gateshead Wednesday June 12

Gwyneth Herbert released her new album The Sea Cabinet, on the 20th May 2013. 
The Sea Cabinet, the singer’s sixth album and her first in three years, was launched with four nights at Wilton’s Music Hall – the oldest surviving music hall in the world. 
Her subsequent tour, her first in four years, will start at Sage Gateshead and culminate in a show at Snape Maltings, where the whole project was conceived and recorded. A second tour has already been confirmed for the autumn.
Gwyneth Herbert may be only 31, but the singer and songwriter had already lived several lives when she decamped from her Dalston flat for a week in a Suffolk cottage as part of an artistic residency with Aldeburgh Music. Evenings were dedicated to midnight seaside walks, including a trip to the drowned village of Dunwich, and befriending fishermen in the local tavern. Days, meanwhile, were spent at the piano, down the road in Snape Maltings. She was nursing a broken heart, and – the finishing touch – it was blowing such a gale that she was forced to play in fingerless gloves.
Gwyneth emerged from her week in Aldeburgh with a spectacular concept album: The Sea Cabinet. ‘The songs weave themselves around the imagined story of a woman who walks the beach every day alone,’ she explains, ‘picking up all the discarded and washed up objects and taking them home, logging them with archeological rigour. She keeps them in a shack: her "sea cabinet." These items are kind of semaphore signals and each one resonates with the memory of a secret sea-set story.’
A full decade after her debut album First Songs, The Sea Cabinet finds Gwyneth at her most mature as a writer.  The songs, inspired by the Suffolk coast, are timeless and immersive. And the album, knitted together by field recordings, is as unbroken as a shoreline. The Sea Cabinet calls to mind English folk artists from Jacqui McShee to Tunng. There are also touches of Joni Mitchell in Mingus mode, Edith Piaf and the leftfield pop of Psapp, not to mention Ray Davies and Mara Carlyle. Gwyneth herself says would put the record on the shelf marked bluesyfolkypoppyjazzystorysongs – but, as on the album itself, she’s only half-serious.
‘I like music that stokes a fire in your belly, starts a storm in your brain, punches you in the face and tickles you under the chin at the same time,’ she says. ‘The Sea Cabinet may be a concept album, but I don’t want it to sound like I’ve got my head stuck up my arse. I want the experience of listening to it to be fun – because we had so much fun making it. Like the song of faded seaside hotel The Regal slips into the melodica refrain of I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside. It's whimsy that takes itself seriously.’
Album centrepiece  Fishguard Ladies takes its inspiration from the late 18th century, when, legend has it, a handful of local Welsh women headed off an invading French fleet by flashing their red petticoats. They were apparently mistaken for British Grenadiers. Alderney, by contrast, tells the chilling story of the Channel Island following its occupancy by Nazis during World War Two. Elsewhere we have the tender chamber folk of The Regal and, in Drink, a rum-soaked sea shanty.  Alongside pop artist Fiona Bevan who collaborates on I Still Hear the Bells and The King’s Shilling, the album also features Gwyneth herself on piano and ukulele, multi-instrumentalist folk duo The Rubber Wellies and her regular band: Al Cherry (guitars), Sam Burgess (bass) and David Price (percussion, strings and co-production).
Gwyneth is relishing the fact that, in 2013, a musician’s artistic remit can – and should – extend well beyond the music Gwyneth is relishing the fact that, in 2013, a musician’s artistic remit can – and should – extend well beyond the music itself. Crowd-funded and self-released, with shows (at The Sage, Love Supreme and Snape Maltings) that feature prose, multiple voices and live cymatic projections, The Sea Cabinet is the most ambitious project she has ever attempted. And she is, she says, more creatively fulfilled than ever. 
THE SEA CABINET:
"one of the most beguiling collections of songs you'll hear this year" 4/5 JAZZWISE
"a precious find - a fluid fusion of music, art, storytelling and film inspired by solitary shoreline walks, nautical trinkets and tales from the deep blue sea." VOGUE
"delightfully whimsical" THE TIMES
"Each of the songs is an impressively crafted, well-observed and engrossing vignette....  Simply a triumph" 5/5 MORNING STAR
"a cabaret approach to storytelling…a cabinet of curiosities" 4/5 INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
"a manner of modernised Music Hall, awash with ukelele and melodica" 4/5 THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"an entertaining and often moving show that opens a new chapter in her creative story" 4/5 THE GUARDIAN
"an audacious, sometimes riotous sound to frequently thrill to" MARLBANK
"In its lovingly-produced completeness, this album is a work of art" CRY ME A TORCH SONG


Tour dates
May
23rd - 26th: Sea Cabinet Album Launch Extravaganza, London, Wiltons Music Hall – http://wiltons.org.uk/event.php?p=573
June
12th - Gateshead, The Sage - http://thesagegateshead.org/event/gwyneth-herbert/
14th - Altrincham, Cinnamon Club - https://www.quaytickets.com/cinnamon/Online/default.asp
15th - Wiltshire, The Wiltshire Jazz Festival -
“Sparky, imaginative writing.  A series of twilight characters is unveiled in melodic, acoustic arrangements, full of shifting textures and moods,  Her singing is classy throughout…”  Mojo
“’All The Ghosts’ is the assertion of a highly personal musical voice, with shifting metres, contrasting backgrounds, and lyrics that actually mean something.” **** Jazzwise
 "There's a lovely sense of britishness about this girl, not only is she a talent vocally but a strong songstress too." 8/10 Blues & Soul
“Herbert’s most varied and engaging piece of personal storytelling yet.”  **** The Guardian 
 “Beautiful, vaguely jazzy, keenly observed vignettes… super-talented” **** The Daily Telegraph
“Herbert remains tricky to categorise but fantastically easy to warm to.” **** Metro
 "Builds on the charming, lo-fi, folk-pop of her lauded  'Between Me And The Wardrobe’ - plenty of memorable hooks and witty one-liners."  Time Out
 "If Hanns Eisler had been a woman and written with Ray Davies, he might have come up with something like this.."  Independent On Sunday
“a warm sultry take on acoustic folk and pop." The Daily Mail
"set to be a major sound this summer" Stella
 “Full of shifting tempos and textures.  Classic Bowie-like pop, belting blues and gorgeous jazz. The Times
"delightfully diverse and unpredictable" ALBUM OF THE WEEK Sunday Mercury
GWYNETH HERBERT – Between Me And The Wardrobe (BLUE NOTE) 2007:
"Halfway between Janis Ian and Susanna And The Magical Orchestra"
*****
OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY
"Introspective and wistful"
**** RECORD COLLECTOR
"An impressive, at times moving album which defies and genre pigeon-holing - Ms Herbert could yet be up there with the artists she truly admires"
JAZZWISE
"Brilliantly original, full of space and isolated detail."
Mojo Rising
MOJO
"Personal, witty, urbane, unpredictable and full of subtly poetic narrative that stands up on its own terms without recourse to genre conventions."
****
BBC MUSIC MAG
"Warm melodies, honeyed vocals and brilliant observational lyrics."
****DIVA
"Her exquisite, pure toned voice hovers between moodiness and rapture."
**** CITY LIFE
"Dark and moody balladry gives way to Jacques Brel-esque excitement throughout"
JAZZ REVIEW
"Herbert’s originals connect more with Janis Ian or Rufus Wainwright than the standards the subtly intelligent Herbert at first seemed destined for."
THE GUARDIAN
"The pensive numbers that dominate here similarly come out of the Joni Mitchell end of the repertoire"
THE SUNDAY TIMES
"Gwyneth Herbert’s guileless, low-budget album has emerged one of this year’s word-of-mouth hits, with Herbert poised as one of Britain’s brightest young talents."
THE TELEGRAPH
"a set of very personal songs on which she often sounds closer to Sandy Denny 
than Sarah Vaughn. "
THE TIMES
"many of these songs are compacted narrative jewels. Full of unexpected and highly rewarding details. Recommended"
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