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Bebop Spoken There

Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 2024).

The Things They Say!

This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)

Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 30: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 30: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.

Tue 31: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 12 noon-2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Tue 31: Lapwing Trio @ Wallington (National Trust), Cambo, Morpeth NE61 4AR. 12 noon & 2:00pm. Admission to site £19.00.
Tue 31: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Tue 31: Archie Brown & Friends @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00-8:00pm. Free.

January 2025

Wed 01: ???

Thu 02: ???

Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: John Gregory @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar.

Reviewers wanted

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

Monday, June 02, 2014

Zoe Gilby & Andy Champion // Paul Edis @ The Bridge Hotel. June 1

Zoe Gilby (voice) & Andy Champion (double bass); Paul Edis (keyboards).
(Review by Russell/Photos courtesy of Ken Drew)
The first day of June, a warm summer’s evening and a good turn out at the Bridge Hotel. Splinter @ the Bridge hosts Zoe Gilby and Andy Champion were looking at a blank date in the schedule with the late cancellation of the proposed gig, so, the obvious answer was to ask themselves if they were available do a voice and bass set (they were) and if a half-decent piano player could be found to play a solo set it would be problem solved. After a second’s thought Paul Edis was the obvious choice (and he was available at a reasonable fee!).
The Gilby-Champion partnership took familiar and not so familiar material and reworked it in the pared-down duo format. It freed Gilby to explore her vocal range, improvising on a lyric. The opening number – Pink Floyd’s Money – illustrated the range and dexterity of the voice and Andy Champion’s imperious technique as double bassist. The Joni Mitchell take on Mingus’ Goodbye Pork Pie Hat found favour with Gilby, the melody intact. Kate Bush’s Kashka From Baghdad, perhaps not obvious material at a jazz gig, worked, as did two standards from the repertoire – Nice Work If You Can Get It and Well, You Needn’t – the latter featuring arco bass from Champion. Nick Cave’s menacing Red Right Hand has rapidly established itself in the set list alongside The Midnight Bell (a Gilby quartet staple inspired by a Patrick Hamilton novel). As a finale Gilby invited Paul Edis to join them on a corking Straight No Chaser
Earlier Edis played solo. A set of original compositions (some available as a down load at www.pauledis.co.uk) and one or two standards held the attention of the Splinter audience. The self-deprecating Edis made light of From Nothing to Nowhere and Not Like Me, two tunes many a piano player would love to have written and performed. A Messiaen-inspired piece (a composition given the seal of approval in the cloistered environs of academe, so said Edis!), some Monk (inclusion compulsory!) and My Favourite Things made this all too short set a joy for lovers of jazz piano (the room seemingly full of them!). Giant Steps and New Distraction (Edis’ musings on the distracting iPadiPhoneiWant generation) hit the bulls-eye as subtle left hand stride patterns surfaced mid-Coltrane and mid-Edis. An element of levity rarely goes amiss and Bring Me Sunshine brought a smile to the faces of those present.     
Russell.      .                                

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