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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).

From This Moment On ...

December

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. CANCELLED!
Thu 07: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00. Downstairs.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club: Just Friends @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. Guest band night w. Richie Emmerson, Ian Bosworth, Dave Archbold, Ron Smith, Mark Hawkins. 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: Giles Strong Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle. 1:00pm. £7.00.
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.

Sat 09: Prudhoe Community Band @ Central Station, Newcastle. 10:00am - 12 noon. Charity fundraiser.
Sat 09: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Skinnergate, Darlington. 1:00pm.
Sat 09: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 09: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Middleton & Todridge Village Hall, Morpeth. 7:30pm. £12.00., £6.00.
Sat 09: Paul Skerritt @ Slaley Hall, Hexham NE47 0BX. 7:30pm. From £42.00.

Sun 10: Musicians Unlimited’s Xmas Party with Zoe Gilby Quartet @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. MU 1:00-3:00pm; Zoë Gilby Quartet 4:00-6:00pm. Tickets: £7.50.
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Funk Soul Sista @ Stack, Seaburn. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Beth Clarke @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Whittingham Memorial Institute, Alnwick. 7:30pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 10: Tele-Port @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Zhenya Strigalev.

Mon 11: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Interim Final Recitals @ Newcastle University. Details TBC.

Tue 12: Stu Collingwood Organ Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:00pm. £10.00.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Francois Carrier Trio @ Recital Rooms, Newcastle Uni. May 22.

 Francois Carrier (alto saxophone & Chinese oboe), Michel Lambert (drums) & Steve Beresford (piano)
(Review by Russell/Photos courtesy of Ken Drew).
Jazz North East’s latest On the Outside promotion featured the French-Canadian duo of reeds man François Carrier and drummer Michel Lambert working with the experienced improvising pianist Steve Beresford.

François Carrier explored the full range of his alto, at times nearing (and sustaining) the sound of the tenor horn. Richly melodic, frequently intense (during the interval Carrier spoke of his admiration for Coltrane), the altoist presented a series of short pieces from a clutch of recordings, which, conveniently, were available at the door. Drummer Michel Lambert, a long-time musical partner of Carrier, is surely a ‘first call’ musician on the Canadian scene. A quiet man, a quiet musician (working extensively with brushes), Lambert listened intently to Carrier and Steve Beresford, frequently executed devastating rhythmic patterns. Carrier’s understanding (and love of) the bop idiom broke cover from time to time amidst the freely improvised material. Beresford, in expansive mood, prepared the canvas as a focused Carrier busily worked an expressionist palette.
Carrier picked up and played the Chinese oboe. A small, flute-like instrument with a sound veering from piccolo to bagpipe (the reed a combination of plastic and fuse wire), the genial Canadian was later to explain he acquired the instrument in a shop in Camden, London. He spent four hours in the shop trying every exotic instrument in there, no doubt trying the patience of the sales assistant!
Beresford’s prepared piano antics were at a premium. A clockwork toy dispatched into the Steinway’s inner workings so intrigued Lambert he stopped playing, got up and looked under the lid. Laughter, the end of the piece! Carrier has worked with some of the stellar names on the improv scene. He is a top-drawer attraction in his own right. Next time make sure you’re there to hear him.     
Earlier, a short opening set by a music department ad hoc grouping of lecturer, undergraduates and Tyneside’s low-fi man Posset - on-the-night collaborators. Posset (functioning/malfunctioning old-school cassette recorders, empty drinks can) and vox humana experimentalists won the Best Name of the Week award with Posset Reads to Impossibility Knocks. Sitting comfortably (ostensibly members of the audience), the ‘vocal ensemble’ got up one by one to join the drinks can cassette man. Bottom-end guttural drawls escaped from the hastily assembled menagerie. One of the caged beasts exited through a door, soon to return, whistling, via another door (Student? £5.00 please).
Ken Drew Photos.
Russell.

1 comment :

Joe Posset said...

Thanks for the write up. It was an honor to play for JNE in such dignified company. Joe Posset.

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