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17421 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 695 of them this year alone and, so far, 100 this month (Sept. 30).

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October

Mon 07: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 07: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.

Tue 08: ???

Wed 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free. Wed 09: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 09: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 09: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 09: Shunya, Dudù Kouate & Seb Rochford @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). £21.00.

Thu 10: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 10: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘Collaborations - it happened all the time’.
Thu 10: Indigo Jazz Voices w. the Little Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 10: Side Cafe Orkestar @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 10: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. With guests Donna Hewitt (sax); Bill Watson (trumpet); Graham Thompson (keys); Ron Smith (bass). Free.

Fri 11: Dulcie May Moreno @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 11: The Jazz Quartet + Stratosphonic @ Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge. 7:00pm. £15.00. A Rotary Club of Hexham event. The Jazz Quartet (Jude Murphy & co), Stratosphonic (blues/rock).
Fri 11: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Market Place, Corbridge NE45 5AW. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 11: Crooners @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Sat 12: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 12: Michael Woods @ Victoria Tunnel, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £12.00. (£10.00. adv.). Country blues guitar & vocals.
Sat 12: Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.28, £11.16, £9.04. A two-track recording launch gig.
Sat 12: Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 12: Stuart Turner @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rockabilly, rhythm & blues etc. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 12: Lapwing Jazz Trio @ The Ship Inn, Low Newton. 8:00pm. Free. New trio: Paula Whitty, Richard Herdman, Jude Murphy.

Sun 13: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 13: Emma Wilson @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 13: Catfish Keith @ The Cluny. 7:00pm. Country blues.
Sun 13: Cath Stephens & Paul Grainger @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Stephens & Grainger, one third of a triple bill.
Sun 13: Dulcie May Moreno Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

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Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

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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