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Bebop Spoken There
Marc Myers: " If the original group with Baker was Dover sole, the group with Brookmeyer was beef stew." - (JazzWax, December 7, 2019).

Today Tuesday December 10
Afternoon
Jazz
Classic Swing - The Ship Inn, Front Street, Monkseaton NE25 8DP. 0191 251 3677. 1:00pm - 3:00pm. Free.
Evening
Jam session - Black Swan Bar, Newcastle Arts Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle NE1 1SG. Tel: 0191 222 9882. 8:00pm. House trio: Mark Williams, Paul Grainger, Rob Walker.
Tyne Valley Big Band - Fox Inn, West End Terrace, Hexham NE46 3DB.Tel: 01434 603681. 8:30pm. Free (donations).
Blues/Soul/Folk etc.
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To the best of our knowledge, details of the above events are correct but may be subject to alteration.

Saturday, October 31, 2015
MIKE DURHAM’S WHITLEY BAY CLASSIC JAZZ PARTY – NOVEMBER 5-8

James Birkett & Bradley Johnston @ The Jazz Café – October 31
Buck Clayton Legacy Band @ Sage Gateshead – October 30

RIP Nat Peck

The last surviving member of Miller's AEF band, Nat Peck died on October 24.
May he rest in peace.
Lance.
Dom and the Ikos @ Hoochie Coochie - Oct. 30

(Review by Lance).
Pannonica @ The Lit & Phil - Oct. 30.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Glaswegian Hoochie Coochie Men
RIP Herbie Goins

Obituary.
CD Review: Matthew Stevens – Woodwork

Thursday, October 29, 2015
CD Review: Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Chautauqua Volume 1.

(Review by Lance).
GIJF 2016

CD Review: Mike Holober - Balancing Act.

SINATRALAND – EXPLORING THE MUSICAL WORLD OF FRANK SINATRA
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Let Spin @ Jazz Café - Oct. 27
Song Lyrics - Why do we like them?
Band Library Seeks Good Home

R.I.P. Lee Shaw
CD Review: Hot Jazz Jumpers - The Very Next Thing
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
CD Review: Home Away From Home – The Colours Jazz Orchestra Plays the Music of Ayn Inserto

This is a startling album from the outstanding Composer/Arranger Ayn Inserto and the Colours Jazz Orchestra. Since 1999 Ayn has been steadily making a name for herself in the U.S. receiving countless awards but is, currently, perhaps less well-known in the U.K.
A musician writing avant-garde charts in sound, taking risks and creating some of the most complex, sophisticated, and clever music I’ve ever heard.
Smooth-jazz this is not!
Tetra @ Sage Gateshead - Oct. 26
Our reviewer, Hugh, said, of Tetra's new CD, "Tetra is a burst of golden sunshine and will warm the listener during the shortening autumn days".
Monday, October 26, 2015
Vasi X plays Ornette!
Double Bill @ Ushaw – Paul Edis & Vasilis Xenopoulos/The Gala Big Band Ushaw College, Durham - October 24
Vasilis Xenopoulos Quartet @ the Black Bull - Blaydon Jazz Club. Oct. 25

Sunday, October 25, 2015
Monday Oct 26 @ Sage Gateshead - Tonight!

Interview.
CD Review.
Not to be missed!
Lance.
JULIAN ARGÜELLES' TETRA - Sage Gateshead. 8pm. £13.50/£11.50. 0191 4434661.
Liam, Leroy & Humph
Charles Gordon & Kenny Hewitt @ The Jazz Café – October 24
Alter Ego @ The Globe Jazz Bar - Oct. 24
Saturday, October 24, 2015
The Last of the Legacy…going, going, almost gone!

Swinging into Blaydon this Sunday
Taylor made for the Vermont - Oct. 23

Gerry Richardson Quartet @ the Jazz Café - Oct. 23
Friday, October 23, 2015
Andy Hudson Remembers Don Rendell

Dominic Lodge @ Culture Lab, Newcastle University – October 22
Tutors Live! @ Sage Gateshead – October 21
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Friday Night?
RIP Mark Murphy

RIP Don Rendell

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Sax in the Lab – October 22

Jazz Café Jam Session - Oct. 19
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea

It's simply the business!
Lance.
EFG London Jazz Festival

CD Review: Nicholas Bridgeman - Wheel of Life

Monday, October 19, 2015
Sage Gateshead this Wednesday
Blaydon this coming Sunday...
He's back! The wonderful tenor sax player - warm toned, lyrical and exhilarating. Vas is supported by three of the region's finest - Paul piano, Andy Champion bass and Russ Morgan drums.
National Jazz Archive wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for oral history and reminiscence project
The National Jazz Archive, based in Loughton, Essex, has been awarded £83,300 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the Intergenerational Jazz Reminiscence Project, which will begin in January 2016.

Jazz Co-op @ The Globe: Gabriele Mit Drei - October 17
Sunday, October 18, 2015
CD Review: Kristine Mills - BOSSAtoo

CD Review: Baden Powell - Live In Berlin.

(Review by Lance).
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Jambone Make Capital

Kora Band @ the Jazz Café, Newcastle - Oct. 16

(Review/bw photo by Lance/colour photo courtesy of Mike Tilley).
This probably won't be my "Gig of the Year" but I'm sure it will be a contender! What is for sure is that it will be the most unique. Five American musicians playing a fusion of jazz and West African music and featuring the kora - a lute shaped, 20 plus stringed harp-sounding instrument originally indigenous to West Africa but now more widely used. Mathis' instrument was made by, quote: "a hippy guy out in the Oregon mountains".