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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).

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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.

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: 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.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Graeme Wilson Quartet @ The Lit & Phil – Dec 11

Graeme Wilson (tenor saxophone), Paul Edis (piano), Andy Champion (double bass) & Adam Sinclair (drums)
(Review by Russell)
Graeme Wilson is on Tyneside to play a couple of gigs. The first of them at the Lit & Phil went down a storm. The monthly Friday lunchtime concert series continues to attract near full houses and Wilson’s appearance was no exception. Having spent several years as one of Tyneside’s Honorary Geordies, Wilson returned to his native Scotland to take up a job in the world of academia, yet makes time to meet up with, perform, and record with three of the north east’s finest musicians.
New material – new to the Newcastle audience – featured in the programme together with more familiar material. Searchlight Nevada, the first of five compositions, inspired by the tale of John Coltrane going missing in the desert, reaffirmed the memory of Wilson’s cast iron technique and to some ears an inside-the-tune logic to his thinking, development and execution of ideas. A post Coltrane sound, echoes of McCoy Tyner hanging onto the coat tails of the tenor giant, this was a great start to the set. Turquoise (another tune previously heard in Newcastle) followed, then a new composition, Spinning Slowly, featured brushes in the hands of the brilliant Adam Sinclair – the slowly spinning object being a car on ice. The New Wallaw referenced Blyth’s derelict (now lovingly restored) Art Deco cinema. A vehicle for the much missed Voice of the North Jazz Orchestra, the composition works as a small group piece. In the hands of the four musicians on the stand it couldn’t fail to do so.
The final tune of the afternoon – Five Floors Up – achieved a unanimous post-gig verdict from many present: superb. Recorded as a duo piece for Wilson and pianist Paul Edis, the musicians had little difficulty in adapting it for quartet. Drawing upon seemingly endless influences and sources, the number incorporated a lazy, behind-the-beat post-bop in-the-pocket feel infused with the blues. And…Wilson and co whistled the coda. Masterful!
An eagerly anticipated new recording is in the offing. The CD will compliment the highly regarded EP Pleasureland. Scheduled to be released sometime in early 2016 with gigs to follow, watch this space. The next Lit & Phil lunchtime date for your diary is, wait for it, Graeme Wilson and Paul Edis on Friday 22 January playing the music of one TS Monk!
Russell.  

1 comment :

JC said...

Great review of a brilliant gig and I definitely agree with Russell's comment on Five Floors Up - there is no better way of describing it than as incorporating 'a lazy, behind-the-beat post-bop in-the-pocket feel infused with the blues'. The tune certainly deserves that many hyphens!
Also nice to see the band having a good time and whistling while they work.
JC

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