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October
Tue 03: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 03: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. House trio: Michael Young (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums). CANCELLED!
Wed 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 04: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 04: Paul Skerritt @ Vespa Italian Bar & Steakhouse, Primrose Hill, Jarrow. From 7:00pm. To book a table - 0191 483 3355.
Wed 04: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 05: Sound the Trumpets @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 05: Hot Club du Nord @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00. POSTPONED!
Thu 05: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 05: Tommy Bentz Trio + Mark Croft Duo + George Shovlin & George Lamb @ The Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Harbour View Speakeasy's USA blues double bill + Shovlin & Lamb!
Thu 05: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 05: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 06: Alcyona Mick @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 06: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 06: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 06: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 06: WORKSHOP: Philosophy of Arts & Entertainment @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 2:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 06: Balo @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 6:20pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 06: Paul Skerritt @ 3Sixty Champagne Lounge, Hadrian’s Tower, Newcastle. From 7:00pm. To book a table - 0191 933 8591.
Fri 06: Lexer/Mayes/Noble + Semay Wu + Miman @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 06: Dulcie May Moreno @ The Vault, Hexham. 7:30pm. £20.00. Book in advance. Moreno with Alan Law, Paul Grainger & John Bradford.
Fri 06: Dean Stockdale Quartet @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. 'Celebrating Oscar'.
Fri 06: Nu Brass Sounds: Big Brass Bash @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: King Bees @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sat 07: WORKSHOP: Philosophy of Arts & Entertainment @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 10:15am. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sat 07: Hot Club du Nord @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 07: Bugge & Niccols + Moore & Fairhall @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning - All the Things You Are. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 07: Rie Nakajima @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 6:20pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sat 07: Paul Skerritt @ 3Sixty Champagne Lounge, Hadrian’s Tower, Newcastle. From 7:00pm. To book a table - 0191 933 8591.
Sat 07: Boys of Brass @ Salt Market Social, Liddell St., North Shields. From 7:00pm. £9.00. + bf.
Sat 07: Samuel Blaser Trio + Toxvaerd & Zeeberg + Muramatsu & Welch @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sat 07: Anth Purdy @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sat 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sun 08: Zoë Gilby Quintet + Ubunye @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Line-up inc. Tony Kofi. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sun 08: Tommy Bentz Band @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. USA blues band.
Mon 09: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 09: Cherise Adams-Burnett @ The Grove, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. .
Tue 10: Abbie Finn Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:30pm.
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 ....
Gala Theatre Lunchtime Update
CD Reviews:The Lalama Brothers - Erie Ave.

(Review by Lance).
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
EP Review: Nicky Schrire - To The Spring.
CD Review: Jason Rebello – Anything But Look.
Great North Big Band Jazz Festival (Day 3) @ North Shore. March 2
Blaydon Bulletin
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- CD Review: Brother Strut - The First Strut is the ...
- 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.
- CD Review: Jason Rebello – Anything But Look.
- 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.
- CD Review: Pigfoot - 21st Century Acid Trad.
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