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Abbie Finn: "Even though there's a lot of great work being done to promote women in jazz, I still come up against some attitudes! I pulled up at a recording session with my drums in the car and the studio owner said, 'I'm sorry, this space is reserved for the drummer!'" - (Jazzwise April 2023).

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Postage

15245 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 264 of them this year alone and, so far, 77 this month (March 25).

From This Moment On ...

March

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Mar 26: Pop Jazz @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. 'Jazzified' tunes by the likes of Sylvester, Bowie, the Monkees etc., feat. Alan Law, David Gray, Richard Herdman & Jude Murphy.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 31: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 31: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 31: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 31: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm. CANCELLED! Back next week (April 7).
Fri 31: Jasmine Myra + Waclaw Zimpel @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Fri 31: The Revolutionaires @ The Shack, Boldon Colliery. 7:30pm. £10.00. The Revolutionaires' big band (horn section) line-up.
Fri 31: Andrew McCormack @ Maltings, Berwick. 8:00pm. £20.00.

April
Sat 01: The Big Easy @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 01: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning - In a Minor Key. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 01: Hot Club du Nord @ Pleased to Meet You, Bridge St., Morpeth. 8:00pm. £79.00. A charity fundraising event.
Sat 01: Boys of Brass @ Stack, Seaburn. 7:00-9:00pm.
Sat 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00. RESCHEDULED to next week (Sat 08).

Saturday, April 04, 2015

Paul Edis @ The Jazz Café. Good Friday

Paul Edis (pno).
(Review by Russell/"Montage" by Mike Tilley.)
Half an hour before the advertised start one hardy soul kept pianist Paul Edis company. Jazz Café staff, twiddling thumbs, said hello. Were hot cross buns a counter attraction? Our monthly appointment with Dr Edis was beginning to look like a select ‘audience with’ affair.
Oh, ye of little faith! Minutes before the nine o’clock start Edis’ many disciples arrived, greeted familiar faces and took a pew. Edis on tap water, his flock on something a little stronger, the Good Friday recital commenced. Montage, My Favourite Things and From Nothing to Nowhere. Three tunes, two of them written by Edis, everyone listening (so, it is possible for some to sit still for more than a millisecond!). Lord of the Dance (from an Appalachian religious community) and Gershwin’s It Ain’t Necessarily So offered piety and Big Apple hedonism in equal measure.
Chopin at the Caff? With Paul Edis at the keyboard, anything is possible. Edis made the link between Chopin, Bach and other composers from the classical world and the world of jazz improvisation. An obvious link for some – JS Bach couldn’t have been anything other than a brilliant improviser! Edis followed up with a world premiere of Just Like Me (to be viewed, perhaps, as a companion piece to Not Like Me). The first set ended with a back-to-back reworking of English Country Garden and Greensleeves. Ostensibly tunes from another world, Edis the jazz pianist made them work, the playing nothing less than dazzling. Hints of stride strode throughout the set, more later.
A bottle of Prince Bishop, a catch-up with the Caff community, one parishioner departed to Vermont – a long way through the mean streets of the Toon – to sup at the feet (rather a table) of the Goddess of the GASbook, Ruth Lambert. Second set. Yesterdays opened, Donna Lee followed. Bird à la stride! Brilliant! For Kathleen, to be recorded later in the year, was heard on this Good Friday in the presence of the subject. Fantastic. Another of Edis’ many compositions – Distraction – more than held the attention. Twists and turns, guess which way next? Quite a tune.  Nica’s Dream as a stride number and similarly the fearsome Giant Steps (‘Giant Steps, stride…’ said Edis) just about stole the show. Next month’s Edis master class will see him reunited with bassist Mick Shoulder and drummer Adam Sinclair. Don’t miss it.               
Russell.

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