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Grant Green Jr.: "One thing that most people--especially jazz cats--don't realise is that all of your jazz standards were once pop standards" - DownBeat July 2018).

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Bobby Sanabria: "Tito Puente was not a very tall man, but when he played the timbales he was a giant among men." - DownBeat July 2018).

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Today Wednesday June 20

Afternoon

Vieux Carré Jazzmen - Cullercoats Crescent Club, 1 Hudleston, Cullercoats NE30 4QS. Tel: 0191 253 0242. 1:00pm. Free admission.

Evening

Take it to the Bridge - The Globe, 11 Railway Street, Newcastle NE4 7AD. 8:00pm. £1.00.

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Cancelled!

Francis Tulip Quartet - Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead NE8 2JR. 6:30pm. Concourse gig.

Cancelled!

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Emma Fisk & James Birkett + Hot Club du Nord - Sage Gateshead Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead NE8 2JR. Tel: 0191 443 4666. 8:00pm. £15.30.

Steve Glendinning & Paul Grainger - Dun Cow, Brandling Village, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 4RS. 8pm. Free.

Community Hall New Orleans Band - Springwell Village Community Venue, Fell Road, Springwell, Gateshead NE9 7RP. 8:15pm £3.00.

Moonshine Sessions - Billy Bootleggers, 28 Nelson Street, Newcastle NE1 5AN. 8:30pm. Free.

To the best of our knowledge, details of the above events are correct but may be subject to alteration.

Friday, March 04, 2016

CD Review: Tommaso Starace/Michele Di Toro - From a Distant Past

Tommaso Starace (alto/sop); Michele Di Toro (pno).
(Review by Lance).
Those of us who recall, with pleasure, Starace and Di Toro playing a JNE quartet gig at the Chilli a few years back will have fond memories of these two outstanding players, a memory enhanced by this duo recording. Make no mistake, these are a couple of musicians at the top of their game and able to incorporate history - not just jazz history, but world history - into an intricate pattern where genre meets genre with the end result being a product that could be labelled with like accuracy under Classical or Contemporary or whatever name you choose!
Most of the pieces are by Starace although Di Toro also chips in with a couple. Like Ellington and Strayhorn, Starace and Di Toro are joined at the hip - and I use the word [hip] advisedly. Listen to The Court Jester and you'll see why! 
Starace's as hot as Rome in summer on alto, and as cool as Alaska in winter on soprano. Di Toro provides the spring and the autumn, 
A duo for all seasons but, most of all for now! 
Lance.
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Whilst we appreciate the many emails, texts, messages and other communications we receive requesting album/gig reviews on BSH, regrettably, we are unable to reply to them all other than those we are able to answer with a positive response.
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Bebop Spoken Here -- Here, being the north-east of England -- centred in the blues heartland of Newcastle and reaching down to the Tees Delta and looking upwards to the Land of the Kilt.
Not a very original title, I know; not even an accurate one as my taste, whilst centred around the music of Bird and Diz, extends in many directions and I listen to everything from King Oliver to Chick Corea and beyond. Not forgetting the Great American Songbook the contents of which has provided the inspiration for much great jazz and quality popular singing for round about a century.
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