Bebop Spoken There

Warne Marsh: "At some point, you have to be prepared to create—to perform. It's vital, man, if we're talking about jazz, the original jazz, the performing art. It fulfils its meaning only when you play it live in front of an audience." DownBeat January 1983.

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

18191 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 45 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Jan. 14), 45

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Mon 19: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 20: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Ben Lawrence, Paul Grainger, Joe Deans.

Wed 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 21: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 21: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 22: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: 2025 obituaries.
Thu 22: Ronnie Scott’s Soho Songbook @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Thu 22: Castillo Nuevo Orquesta. @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 8:00pm (doors). £6.50 (inc. bf).

Fri 23: Sue Ferris Quintet @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.

Sat 24: An Evening with Will Todd @ Durham Cathedral. 7:30pm. Feat. Voices of Hope, Strictly Smokin’ Big Band (members of) & Alice Grace. Performance inc. Todd’s Jazz Missa Brevis. £25.50., £13.50., £19.50., £10.50.

Sun 25: Musicians Unlimited @ West Hartlepool RFC. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Gaz Hughes Trio @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 25: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Alexia Gardner Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £7.00.

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

Friday, June 26, 2015

Friday and Saturday Night @ The Jazz Café

Nick Svarc Trio
Friday 26th June 9pm - £5.00 (£4.00 before 8.30pm)
Nick Svarc’s Leeds-based power trio successfully brings a variety of influences together to unite modern groove with improvisation.
Nick, guitar, was seen on the Concourse at this year’s Sage Festival with his organ trio, Svarc Hanley Longhawn, but works also as a sideman in a number of high profile jazz and pop bands and as a session musician around the UK.
His two sidemen, drummer Dave Walsh and bassist Scott Devine are active nationally and internationally as well as teaching in further and higher education, Dave as a Principal Lecturer in jazz at Leeds College of music.
Lindsay Hannon Plus
Saturday 27th June 8.00pm to Midnight – Women Make Music presents Lindsay Hannon Plus…
...followed by An Open Jam Session. £5.00 / Free to Jam Session participants with instruments. See below for ticket sales.
Women Make Music’s celebration of women in jazz would be incomplete without an evening with Lindsay Hannon. Going from strength to strength since its formation in 2012 The Lindsay Hannon Plus has become one of the most enjoyable vocal-led outfits on the North East scene
For this concert, along with some of her usual favorites, accomplished singer and songwriter Lindsay Hannon will perform a brand new suite of songs entitled 'Chalk Outline' encompassing ideas of attachment and exile, environment and biology which aim to explore how we define ourselves.
Following what promise to be two great sets of music there will be a late night Jam
Session open to local musicians to accompany Lindsay and her band with some classic jazz standards. A Saturday night at the Jazz Café not to be missed.
Lindsay Hannon vocals; Mark Williams guitar;John Pope double bass ;Tom Chapman drums
Tickets on sale at : 1) www.seetickets.com 2) Reflex: 0191 260 3246 3) Jazz Café: 0191 2229882 info@jazznortheast.com

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