Bebop Spoken There

Ludovic Beier (Django Festival Allstars): ''Manouche means 'free man,' and gypsies have been travelers since they migrated west from India to Europe.'' (DownBeat March, 2026)

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

18383 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 247 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 17 ), 57

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

From This Moment On

March

Mon 30: Gerry Richardson Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 30: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 31: Bede Trio @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Albert Hills Wright (alto sax); Finn Carter (piano); Michael Dunlop (double bass).

April

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Musicians playing classical & orchestral music.
Thu 02: The Noel Dennis Band @ Prohibition Bar, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RU. 7:00pm (doors). £10.84. Quartet plus special guest Zoë Gilby. Over 21s only.
Thu 02: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 02: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00. adv..
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Monday, September 14, 2015

The Life of a Great Monk

This week’s Great Lives programme on Radio 4 (Tuesday, 4:30pm) considers the life of Thelonious Monk. Making the case for Monk’s inclusion on the Beeb’s ‘Great Life’ list will be Hannah Rothschild. You can bank on her presenting a cogent argument.
Matthew Parris will chair the debate and they will be joined by writer Richard Williams in a friendly, round table discussion. Is Parris a jazz fan? Will he play devil’s advocate – the cloth-eared philistine? Tune in to find out.
Later in the week Alan Plater’s radio play The Gallery, set in a Tyneside art gallery, can be heard on Radio 4 Extra. Friday, 9:15pm is the time of the broadcast. Catch it later on BBC iPlayer when you get home from the Jazz Café having listened to the fabulous Ms Alice Grace singing with her new quintet.          
Russell.
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1 comment :

Ann Alex said...

Russell, I heard the Monk programme by chance and it was very informative. Hannah Rothschild reckoned that his relationship with the baroness was platonic. She idolised him from the first time she heard his music, before she knew him. Miles Davis didn't like his music. I loved the music on the programme, very 20th century, possible influenced by 12 tone classical. Ann Alex

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