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February 2025
Sun 09: The New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.Sun 09: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 09: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 09: Glenn Miller & Big Band Spectacular @ The Forum, Billingham. 3:00pm.
Sun 09: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 09: Tom Remon & Mark Williams @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 09: Rod Oughton’s Tomorrow’s New Quartet with Ben van Helder @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Deschanel Gordon.
Sun 09: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 10: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 11: Steve Summers Quintet @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm.
Wed 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 12: Jam session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.
Wed 12: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 12: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 13: Student Performances @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 4:00pm. Free. Inc. Olly Styles (tenor sax).
Thu 13: MOBO Awards Fringe 2025: Artist Showcase @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:00pm. Free (ticketed). Line-up inc. Hannabiell & Midnight Blue.
Thu 13: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Fri 14: John Rowland Trio @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 12:30-1:30pm. £5.00. at the door. New second Friday in the month concert series.
Fri 14: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 14: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 14: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 14: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 14: Archipelago + Anna Tempest @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £8.00.
Fri 14: Paul Jones & Dave Kelly @ Alnwick Playhouse. 7:30pm. Rhythm & blues.
Fri 14: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The White Room, Stanley. 7:45pm.
Fri 14: Jazz Sabbath @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Sat 15: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: James Birkett & Emma Fisk @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Sat 15: Elkie Brooks @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. ‘The Long Farewell Tour’.
Sat 15: Milne Glendinning Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Reviewers wanted
Monday, March 31, 2014
CD Review: Brother Strut - The First Strut is the Deepest

Alex Baker Quartet @ The Forum, Darlington. March 30
Havana Club 5 - Splinter @ The Bridge
Double LP Review: Nat Birchell Quintet - Live in Larissa... Divine Harmony in Duende Jazz Bar.

Sunday, March 30, 2014
Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club - Change of Band.
CD Review: Donna Singer and The Doug Richards Trio - Jazz In The Living Room

Alan Glen Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 29 (second set)
Places still available for Play Jazz! workshop at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival
Alan Glen Trio @ The Jazz Café
(Review by Lance/Photo by Mike Tilley).
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Ron Carter Trio @ Blue Note Jazz Club Milan. March 18.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Info Required on Tommy Hines
EVERYONE DESERVES MUSIC AT SAGE GATESHEAD
CD Review: Basin Street Brawlers - It's Tight Like That

Tyne Valley Big Band & Tyne Valley Youth Big Band @ The Phoenix, Hexham. March 27
Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone. March 27
Thursday, March 27, 2014
CD Review: Sara Serpa & Andre Matos - Primavera
Playtime in Edinburgh
CD Review: Matt Newton Trio - Within Reach

Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Crescent Club. March 26
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
GIJF News.
Trio Riot @ Schmazz at the Jazz Café. March 25
R.I.P. Malcolm Gray

Malcolm was 80 year old and had been in ill health for several years.
Funeral is at Whitley Bay Crematorium next Wednesday April 2 at 3pm and afterwards at the Grand Hotel.
Lance.
Jazz @ Nairn to Return
CD Review: Vijay Iyer - Mutations
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Ray Stubbs All-Stars @ The Schooner, Gateshead March 22.
Pink Lane Jazz Co-op extending its community share issue
Preview: Sage Gateshead International Jazz Festival. April 4-6 2014
CD Review: Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock - Whispering of the Stars

Monday, March 24, 2014
Alan Glen @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond.
(Review by Lance)
A Strictly Combustible Evening. March 23
CD Review: Paul Higgs - Pavane

Jam Session @ Salsa. March 23.
There Will Never Be Another You; God Bless the Child (vocal by Fi) and Doxy were the numbers I heard. I would have stayed longer but Hoochie beckoned..... Lance.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie
Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 22
Gregory Porter on Andrew Marr Show this morning.
Hoochie Coochie one day Andrew Marr the next!
Lance
Oxford Gargoyles in Hong Kong
The Gargoyles, who look anything but like gargoyles, are young and vibrant and currently somewhere East of Suez.
Listen/watch here.
Lance.
Song Lyric Course
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Empty Shop HQ Update
Stu Collingwood Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 21
Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone. March 20
Customs House Big Band @ (wait for it) The Customs House, South Shields. March 21.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Mo Scott, Paul Edis & Neil Harland @ The Gala Theatre. March 21
Taupe @ King’s Hall. March 20
Ned Kelly's coming to London

The Pilgrim St. Set @ Hoochie Coochie March 20
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Jazz Café Update
CD Review: Yvonnick Prene - Wonderful World

(Review by Lance)
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Thursday Night @ Hoochie - Looks Good.
This is going to be something. Hoochie is on a roll at present and this one's free so get along and park it (but not in "The Dugout").
Lance.
Gavin Lee’s Dixieland Band @ The New Inn, Durham. March 18
Erlend Skomsvoll to form top young JM Jazz World ORCHESTRA 2014
R.I.P. Al Harewood.
Lance.
Calling All Jazz Promoters
Details here.
Lance.
Jazz Café Jam Session Number 4. March 18.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
CD Review: Lena Bloch - Feathery.

(Review by Lance).
Pink Lane Jazz Co-op on BBC Look North
Lance.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Nic Svarc Trio @ The Bridge Hotel. March 16
Salsa Cafe Jazz Jam: Sunday March 16
Sunday, March 16, 2014
RIP Iola Brubeck and Med Flory
Lance.
Paul Gowland’s Allstars @ The Jazz Café March 15
Thursdays Are The New Fridays
Paul Skerritt Band @ Salsa Café March 15
(Review by Lance).
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Gregory Porter @ Hoochie Coochie March 14.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Lit & Phil. March 14
Celebrating Roy @ The Bridge Hotel. March 11
CD Review: Trio Riot Trio Riot
RIP Terry Willits.
Obituary.
Lance.
The Collective @ Hoochie Coochie March 13.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Tori Freestone Trio – Splinter at the Bridge March 9
Greg Spero and his Amazing Chicago Jazz Quartet - First Northern Dates Announced
Zoe Gilby Trio - Jazz Café Saturday Feb 8.
CD Review: Dominic J. Marshall Trio - Spirit Speech.

(Review by Lance.)
Gestating in the Womb.
a blind future which would destroy us.
a precocious potentiality
to elevate us toward the golden city walls of Ancient Egyptian demigods.
but it is the vibrations coming from outside.
celestial sound waves impinging on that foetal conciousness
that will make or break us.
and before we know if we want to be made or broken
time will pass us by like a shooting star,
leaving us alone again on this spherical blue rock
orbiting our own inflated self-image.
The above is a poem from the album notes by pianist Dominic J. Marshall.
Alan Glen Trio @ The Chillingham. March 5
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
R.I.P. Joe Mudele
Sadly missed.
Lance
PS: Anyone know why and when he changed his name from Muddel to Mudele?
Customs House Big Band Open Rehearsal/Concert @ The New Crown. March 4
Lest We Forget ....
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- Alex Baker Quartet @ The Forum, Darlington. March 30
- Havana Club 5 - Splinter @ The Bridge
- Double LP Review: Nat Birchell Quintet - Live in L...
- Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club - Change of Band.
- CD Review: Donna Singer and The Doug Richards Trio...
- Alan Glen Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 29 (second set)
- Places still available for Play Jazz! workshop at ...
- Alan Glen Trio @ The Jazz Café
- Ron Carter Trio @ Blue Note Jazz Club Milan. March...
- Info Required on Tommy Hines
- EVERYONE DESERVES MUSIC AT SAGE GATESHEAD
- A Lighter Shade of Pink
- CD Review: Basin Street Brawlers - It's Tight Like...
- Tyne Valley Big Band & Tyne Valley Youth Big Band ...
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone. March 27
- CD Review: Sara Serpa & Andre Matos - Primavera
- Playtime in Edinburgh
- CD Review: Matt Newton Trio - Within Reach
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Crescent Club. March 26
- GIJF News.
- Trio Riot @ Schmazz at the Jazz Café. March 25
- R.I.P. Malcolm Gray
- Jazz @ Nairn to Return
- CD Review: Vijay Iyer - Mutations
- Ray Stubbs All-Stars @ The Schooner, Gateshead Mar...
- Pink Lane Jazz Co-op extending its community share...
- Preview: Sage Gateshead International Jazz Festiva...
- CD Review: Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock - Whisperin...
- Alan Glen @ The Cherry Tree Restaurant, Jesmond.
- A Strictly Combustible Evening. March 23
- CD Review: Paul Higgs - Pavane
- Jam Session @ Salsa. March 23.
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie
- Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 22
- Gregory Porter on Andrew Marr Show this morning.
- Oxford Gargoyles in Hong Kong
- Song Lyric Course
- Empty Shop HQ Update
- Stu Collingwood Trio @ The Jazz Café. March 21
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Millstone. March 20
- Customs House Big Band @ (wait for it) The Customs...
- Mo Scott, Paul Edis & Neil Harland @ The Gala Thea...
- Taupe @ King’s Hall. March 20
- Ned Kelly's coming to London
- The Pilgrim St. Set @ Hoochie Coochie March 20
- Jazz Café Update
- CD Review: Yvonnick Prene - Wonderful World
- Thursday Night @ Hoochie - Looks Good.
- Gavin Lee’s Dixieland Band @ The New Inn, Durham. ...
- Erlend Skomsvoll to form top young JM Jazz World O...
- R.I.P. Al Harewood.
- Calling All Jazz Promoters
- Jazz Café Jam Session Number 4. March 18.
- CD Review: Lena Bloch - Feathery.
- Pink Lane Jazz Co-op on BBC Look North
- Nic Svarc Trio @ The Bridge Hotel. March 16
- Salsa Cafe Jazz Jam: Sunday March 16
- RIP Iola Brubeck and Med Flory
- Paul Gowland’s Allstars @ The Jazz Café March 15
- Thursdays Are The New Fridays
- Paul Skerritt Band @ Salsa Café March 15
- Gregory Porter Goes to School in Houghton Le Spring!
- Gregory Porter @ Hoochie Coochie March 14.
- Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Lit & Phil. March 14
- Celebrating Roy @ The Bridge Hotel. March 11
- CD Review: Trio Riot Trio Riot
- RIP Terry Willits.
- The Collective @ Hoochie Coochie March 13.
- Tori Freestone Trio – Splinter at the Bridge March 9
- Greg Spero and his Amazing Chicago Jazz Quartet - ...
- Zoe Gilby Trio - Jazz Café Saturday Feb 8.
- CD Review: Dominic J. Marshall Trio - Spirit Speech.
- Alan Glen Trio @ The Chillingham. March 5
- R.I.P. Joe Mudele
- Customs House Big Band Open Rehearsal/Concert @ Th...
- Lest We Forget ....
- Gala Theatre Lunchtime Update
- CD Reviews:The Lalama Brothers - Erie Ave.
- EP Review: Nicky Schrire - To The Spring.
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- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival (Day 3) @ North...
- Blaydon Bulletin
- Trombone players wanted.
- Triptych @ The Cherry Tree, Jesmond
- Tori Freestone Trio @ Bridge Hotel. March 9..
- Lit and Phil Latest
- Tonight @ The Cherry Tree - Triptych (Paul Edis pi...
- Sunday Salsa Jam.
- Mark Nightingale and the Al Wood 9 as headline art...
- Alexander Bone Announced as BBC Young Jazz Musicia...
- CD Review: Libby York - Memoirs
- Brian Carrick and the Heritage Hall Stompers @ As...
- Jason Rebello @ Hoochie Coochie March 7.
- Improved Anti-piracy Technology Announced
- Clarinet player wanted.
- Pink Lane Jazz Co-op Share Update - 50% sold, 2 we...
- CD Review: Emilia Mårtensson - Ana
- New Sunniside Venue for Maine Street Jazzmen.
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