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Bebop Spoken There

Charles McPherson: “Jazz is best heard in intimate places”. (DownBeat, July, 2024).

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!"

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

16611 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 1504 of them this year alone and, so far, 50 this month (July 23).

From This Moment On ...

July

Sat 27: BBC Proms: BBC Introducing stage @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 12 noon. Free. Line-up inc. Nu Groove (2:00pm); Abbie Finn Trio (2:50pm); Dilutey Juice (3:50pm); SwanNek (5:00pm); Rivkala (6:00pm).
Sat 27: Nomade Swing Trio @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 27: Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sat 27: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sat 27: Theon Cross + Knats @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 10:00pm. £22.00. BBC Proms: BBC Introducing Stage (Sage Two). A late night gig.

Sun 28: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm.
Sun 28: Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band @ Fonteyn Ballroom, Dunelm House (Durham Students’ Union), Durham. 2:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sun 28: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Nomade Swing Trio @ Red Lion, Alnmouth. 4:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 28: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 28: Milne Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.

Mon 29: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 30: ???

Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

August

Thu 01: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00.
Thu 01: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 01: Elsadie & the Bobcats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Fri 02: Mainly Two @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free (donations). SOLD OUT! Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Pete Tanton’s Chet Set @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. POSTPONED!

Saturday, June 15, 2013

This Sunday (June 16). The Toby Boalch Sextet.

This Sunday's Splinter gig at the Bridge, Newcastle features the exciting Birmingham based Toby Boalch Sextet. To give you an idea where they are at Zoe Gilby asked them a few questions to give the regulars (and hopefully others too) of what to expect. It looks good to me.
The Interview.:.
Toby, tell us a bit about your band. How it formed? band line up and their influences?
In my final year at college I was leading a trio that I was comfortable writing for and performing with, but when I graduated I wanted to compose for a greater variety of timbres and textures, which was primarily inspired by the composers Bob Brookmeyer and Booker Little. A dominant motivation for me to start writing music for this particular sextet lineup was that I knew the players who I wanted to combine, their individual sounds and musical strengths; this inspired the initial ideas that I had for the music. I had met all the band members while we were studying at Birmingham so we have actually known each other and been playing together in various formats during this formative period in our musical lives which I think gives us quite a special bond. I thought I knew how they would play and interpret this music that I wrote, but I was wrong! They have taken my compositions and transformed them beyond my expectations; although there is a great atmosphere in rehearsals, the time I smile the most is when they are bickering among themselves about how they feel the music should be! These guys care about the music and I think this comes across when we play.
(Chris Maddock, John Flemming (sax); Richard Foote (trombone); Toby Boalch (keys); Nick Jurd (bass); Jonathan Silk (dms).)

What has been the highlight of your bands musical career so far?
We have been lucky enough to receive both funding and performance opportunities from Jazzlines, the key jazz promoters in Birmingham led by Tony Dudley-Evans and Mary Wakelam Sloan, so we played some high-profile gigs early on in the bands career which was obviously great for exposure. However I would say that the music has developed since then and we played our best gig yet at “The Cross” in Moseley this March; thankfully Nick recorded the whole gig which is now on my Soundcloud page if anyone fancies listening!

Best gig you've seen?
Toby - Possibly Dave Douglas Quintet at CBSO Centre, the synergy and empathy between all the players was astounding and the compositions were beautiful.
Jonathan – Wayne Shorter Quartet at Symphony Hall Birmingham
Nick - A Cuong Vu workshop at Birmingham Conservatoire!
John – John Scofield Quartet at North Sea Jazz Fest
Chris -  Probably a double-bill concert at barbican I went to years ago: Michael Brecker Quindectet and Joe Lovano/Hank Jones quartet.
Richard - Probably Cuong Vu at the Yardbird

Favourite album?
Toby - Gnu High, Kenny Wheeler.
Jonathan – Chris Lightcap's Big Mouth
Nick - Photo finish between AKA J Yancey by Jay Dee and Mingus Ah Um
John - Miles Okazaki Mirrors
Chris - John Taylor Trio: Whirlpool
Richard - James Blake

If you could meet, talk with and jam with any musician (alive or deceased) who would it be?
Toby – Sonny Rollins
Jonathan – Bill McHenry
Nick - Photo I’d hang out with Lee Konitz
John – John Coltrane, to get roasted!
Chris – I would jam with Thelonious Monk

Richard – I’d spend a week shedding with John Coltrane.
Thank you guys,
Zoe.

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