(Preview by Russell)
Newcastle
University music students are about to give their Final Year Undergraduate
performances. Strict examination conditions will make for a nerve wracking
occasion. The good news is that these performances are open to the public.
Better still, this year some of the jazz students will be off campus at the
Jazz Café. On Tuesday (May 12th) in the upstairs room of the Pink Lane venue four
students will be looking to give their performance of a lifetime and you can be
there! Arrive early, it’s free admission, grab a beer, coffee or pot of tea,
take a seat and show your support. At six o’clock the room will be bursting at
the seams and the family and friends of Ella El-Salahi (voice) will be bursting
with pride. Bebop Spoken Here has heard El-Salahi with the University’s big
band and in small combos. You are in for a treat.
At
7:00pm. Jennifer Amey (voice) will knock ‘em dead. Don’t miss her. Saxophonist
Faye MacCalman is sure to impress the examiners at 8:15pm and Josh Lane (trumpet)
rounds off the evening at 9:10pm. Great players all, their accompanists (many
fellow students) likewise, Tuesday evening will be a highlight of the year
On
Wednesday 13th make a bee-line for Culture Lab on King’s Walk (just of Barras
Bridge) to hear more. Guitarist Dan Morgan gets things under way at half past
five, at 6:20pm drummer Lewis West will kill ‘em (guaranteed!), as will Joe
Cromey-Hawke and George Hutton (drummers both) at 7:15pm and 7:55pm
respectively. These guys have been heard over the last year or two. They can
play! Get along to Spaces 4 & 5, Culture Lab.
Pianist
Jamie Lawson has drawn the short straw. He’s up before the examiners at the
un-jazz like hour of 10:30am on Thursday (14th) in the Recital Room, in Armstrong Building (main entrance on Queen
Victoria Road, opposite the RVI). Lawson is one helluva player. Support your
local jazz gunslinger/singers!
Russell
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