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Bebop Spoken There

Branford Marsalis: "As ignorance often forces us to do, you make a generalisation about a musician based on one specific record or one moment in time." - (Jazzwise June 2023).

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Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

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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 ...

June

Sat 03: Newcastle Record Fair @ Northumbria University, Newcastle NE8 8SB. 10:00am-3:00pm. Admission: £2.00.
Sat 03: Pedigree Jazz Band @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 03: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Sue Ferris. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 03: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 04: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 04: Central Bar Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. £5.00. The Central Bar Quintet plays Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus. Featuring Lewis Watson.
Sun 04: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 04: Struggle Buggy + Michael Littlefield @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Acoustic blues.
Sun 04: Swinging at the Cotton Club: Harry Strutters' Hot Rhythm Orchestra @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 04: Richard Jones Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 04: Jam No. 18 @ Fabio's Bar, Saddler Street, Durham. 8:00pm. Free. All welcome. A Durham University Jazz Society event.

Mon 05: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

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.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Tutors Live! @ Sage Gateshead – October 21

(Review by Russell)
Tutors working on the BA/BMus degree course based at Sage Gateshead performed to an audience of ‘freshers’ – the ‘Class of 2018’. The new student intake arrived on time, most of them with phones switched off, ready to listen. Hall Two’s cabaret table layout made it an informal occasion. What would the new lot make of it all?
A degree at Sage Gateshead prepares young musicians for a working life in music: jazz to popular music, to the commercial to music technology. On stage a roll call of the region’s teaching talent demonstrated no nonsense performance skills. 
On time, set up, ready to go to work. Mouthful gave it some. Opening a cappella, the quartet’s numbers illustrated an amazing vocal range. Mr Peabody’s Coal Train to Well, Well, Well to Lou Reed, students sat transfixed, impressed. The quartet: Bex Mather, Katherine Zeserson, Dave Camlin and Sharon Durant. Later Mather and Camlin picked up guitars and introduced Bethany Elen-Coyle (vocals) and Fender bass man Paul Susans walked on to near hysteria! The man has clearly proved a hit with the students. Dave Camlin jokingly called for calm.
During the interval the student audience made a bee-line for the bar. This essential aspect of student life would appear to be to taken seriously.
Second set. The students returned, some with drinks in hand. On stage there was a change of guard as the jazz boys sauntered out. Rod Sinclair said hello. A Night in Tunisia said a big hello to the freshers – this is what we do! Sinclair, with Telecaster in hand, shared the stage with A-listers: Paul Edis (pictured), keyboards, Ian Paterson, bass and the percussion duo of Roger Hempsall and Adam Sinclair. City Strut heard Sinclair, R, strip paint, the rhythm section relentless. On walked Ruth Lambert. A vocal master class: No Moon at All and Love Me Like a Man (Sinclair’s Strat did the job). Ms Lambert departed. Ballad time: In a Sentimental Mood. Paul Edis introduced two of his own compositions: Murmurations (Sinclair, A, swopped percussion for kit for some brush work, Hempsall on percussion) and Narrow Escape. The latter number, with Sinclair once again on percussion, featured a fierce duel with Mr Hempsall. The student audience loved it. Whoops and hollers! Mouthful joined the band, as did Hayley Jenkins playing alto alongside Edis (alto) for a dancing finale on A Message for You, Rudy and Primal Scream’s Movin’ On Up.
Russell.           

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