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15491 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 512 of them this year alone and, so far, 133 this month (May 31).

From This Moment On ...

Tue 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 06: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Stu Collingwood (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums).

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED! BACK ON JUNE 15.
Thu 08: Easington Colliery Brass Band @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 08: Faye MacCalman + Blue Dust Archive @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Dilutey Juice + Ceramic @ The Ampitheatre, Sea Road, South Shields. 7:00pm. Free. A South Tyneside Festival event.
Thu 08: Lara Jones w. Vigilance State @ Lubber Fiend, Blandford Square, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Michael Littlefield @ the Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Country blues.
Thu 08: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Fri 09: Emma Rawicz @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm.

Sat 10: Miners' Picnic @ Woodhorn, Ashington. Music inc. Northern Monkey Brass Band (3:00-3:50pm); New York Brass Band (4:00-4:55pm).
Sat 10: Front Porch Three @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Americana, blues, jazz etc.
Sat 10: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 11: WORKSHOP: Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Workshop @ JG Windows, Newcastle. Time TBC. Further details tel. 0191 232 1356.
Sun 11: Jeremy McMurray's Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Ropner Park, Stockton TS18 4EF. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 11: Groovetrain @ Innisfree Sports & Social Club, Longbenton NE12 8TY. Doors 6:30pm. £15.00 (£7.00. under 16).
Sun 11: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Toby Delius Trio @ the Bridge – Oct. 4

Toby Delius (reeds); Olie Brice (bass); Mark Sanders (drums)
(Review/photos Ken Drew) 
The second On the Outside free jazz and improv gig - part of Jazz North East’s autumn season (first Sunday of the month at Newcastle’s Bridge Hotel). The Bridge is a most suitable space for an acoustic performance. Following the improv workshop in the afternoon, the ‘stage’ had been dispensed with giving what some regarded as a fuller sound and, more importantly, making the performers ‘more accessible’. This seemed to be the case for this trio – providing an intimate setting for some well presented improv.  
Delius, born in London, but not a regular on the UK scene, having been abroad for most of his career, predominantly in Holland and Berlin, where he is now based. Yet he plays with London regulars Brice and Sanders as if they are a long-established threesome, partly a result of the trio having toured previously in the UK.
After a small delay in his arrival (flying in from Berlin) Toby appeared, unflustered and ready for the off requiring only a brief catch-up with the rest of the trio. Then it was straight down to business.  Expectations were high, and the assembled audience’s (some from Holland arriving well before 8pm just to make sure) patience was duly rewarded by 2 fine sets. Full of energy and good interplay between the three, the sound was certainly free-spirited yet often pushed forward with driving bass rhythms (sometimes regular, other times asymmetric) with the drums an essential part of the mix.  The trio delivered a range of sonorous images with Toby playing reeds (tenor saxophone and clarinet) and at one point played the sax as if it were producing notes played backwards – something you hear on guitar recordings by playing the recording backwards, but this was happening live, here and now, and blended perfectly with the soundscape as it unfolded in front of us.
Together, Brice and Sanders provided a solid foundation to underpin Delius’ saxophone and kept the momentum going, but equally importantly augmenting, enhancing and reacting to Delius’ changes and development.  His music is focused mainly on short, constantly changing phrases with a relatively light of touch, constantly breathing life into his tenor. Together the bass and drums pairing responded unfailingly to Delius’ every move.  Overall, despite the relatively small audience numbers, the two sets were enthusiastically received and it was good to see this trio on Tyneside.
Ken D.

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