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October
Fri 18: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 18: Hot Club du Nord @ St Cuthbert’s, Crook. 7:30pm.
Fri 18: Chet Set @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. Pete Tanton & co.
Fri 18: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. Doors 7:30pm (upstairs). A Hoodoo Blues dance & social event. £10.00. class & social (£10.00., £7.50., £5.00. social only). Michael Woods (country blues guitar) on stage 9:00pm.
Fri 18: East Coast Swing Band @ Hexham Abbey. 7:30pm. £9.00.
Fri 18: Ben Crosland Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 18: Durham University Jazz Society’s ‘High Standards’ @ Music Dept. Music Room, Divinity House, Palace Green, Durham University DH1 3RS. 8:009-30pm. Tel: 0191 334 1419. £7.00., £5.00.
Fri 18: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Blues Underground, Nelson St., Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.
Sat 19: Sat 19: Paula Jackman’s Jazz Masters @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 19: Howlin’ Mat @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Country blues guitar & vocals. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 20: Kamasi Washington @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. POSTPONED! New date Saturday 5 April 2025.
Sun 20: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 20: Magpies of Swing @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 21: Gideon Tazelaar Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 21: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 21: Gideon Tazelaar Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm.
Tue 22: Bywater Call @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). Americana/blues/soul excellence.
Wed 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 23: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 23: Daniel John Martin w. Swing Manouche @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 6:30pm. £12.00. (at the door, no advance sales).
Wed 23: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 24: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 24: John Garner & Tobias Sarra @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 24: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘Desert Island Discs’.
Thu 24: Daniel John Martin w. Swing Manouche @ Holy GrAle, Durham. 7:00pm. Free (donations).
Thu 24: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm.
Thu 24: Faye MacCalman + John Pope Quintet + Moonfish @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Donations.
Thu 24: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 24: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
The Jazz Clams @ The Globe - March 10.
(Review by Lance).
The Jazz Clams - wherever did they get the name from?! - is in effect the DB Project in meltdown mode, Instead of going for the jugular the Clams take a marginally softer approach digging, not too deeply, into the GASbook along with some well-known jazz standards.
Summertime; Little Sunflower; In a Sentimental Mood; Black Orpheus; Misty; Stolen Moments and Take the L Train plus one other, the name of which I didn't catch, comprised the first set. With the exception of L Train. on which Keighley blew soprano, all were played on tenor, The man's a fluent saxophonist leaping around the horn like a potential Gold Cup winner at Cheltenham and breathing new life into the over-familiar material. My only reservation was the excessive amount of reverb or indeed why, in such a small room with a single figure audience, did he need to be miked up at all? Understandable with the hard driving "Hit him in the slats Bob"* approach of the DB Project but perhaps not so essential in the cooler climate of the Clams.
Nevertheless, it was a good set with MacMillan's guitarwork impressive, Grant's drums unobtrusive and Sanders, so laid back he makes Paul Grainger seem like a punk rocker.
Keighley picked up his alto for Take 5 then reverted to tenor for Pure Imagination. Written by Lesley Bricusse and Anthony Newley for Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory it's a classic song that reminds us that there's also a GBsongbook.
The evening was completed with a rousing Caravan, All Blues, Fembe and A Love Supreme.
Lance.
Photos.
*A remark Bob Fitzsimmons' wife is alleged to have shouted at the ringside during her husband's heavyweight title bout with James J.Corbett in 1879. The advice was sound and Corbett was counted out in the fourteenth round.
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- Tommy Smith to host Glasgow jazz summer school
- ACV @ The Black Swan, Newcastle - March 29
- CD Review: Ehud Asherie - Shuffle Along
- CD Review: Graeme Wilson Quartet – Sure Will Hold ...
- CD Review: Zhenya Strigalev – Never Group
- RIP David Baker
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- CD Review: Leslie Pintchik - True North
- Dave Weisser & Alan Law @ The Jazz Café. March 25
- CD Review: Danny Green Trio - Altered Narratives
- Not Now Charlie @ The Globe - March 24
- At the Globe Tonight
- CD Review: Hans Koller – Retrospection
- CD Review: Gilles Peterson - Magic Peterson Sun Shine
- Mo Scott Band @ The Jazz Café. March 22
- Northern Edition CD Compilation.
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- Jazz Vocal Coup For Cherry Tree
- Jazz Co-op @ The Globe: Milne & Johnston Band: Mar...
- Vintage Chart Toppers Episode 4
- Ray Dales Quartet @ Ashington Jazz Club.
- Interview with Michael Lamb
- CD Review: Darren English - Imagine Nation.
- St Cuthbert’s Durham Beat
- Ushaw Ensemble – St. Cuthbert's Suite, Ushaw Colle...
- The Lindsay Hannon Plus @ The Jazz Café. March 18
- Grew Quartet + Grew Watts Duo + Grew Quintet @ Lit...
- And Even More GIJF - Lance talks to Simon Spillett...
- More on Gateshead International Jazz Festival
- Vintage Chart Toppers Episode 4 on Sunday (March 20)
- Gerry Richardson's Big Idea @ The Jazz Café - Marc...
- Terence Blanchard, Courtney Pine & Charles Bradley...
- RIP Frank Sinatra Jr.
- New release :Magnus Öström - Parachute.
- Mambo Jambo
- CD Review: Phronesis - Parallax.
- The Tube Revisited
- RIP Ernestine Anderson
- The Globe Spins Again
- TRIO HLK + TAUPE @ The Bridge Hotel – March 13
- BSH Talks to Alex Webb about Café Society Swing.
- This Thursday at the Jazz Café - Gerry Richardson'...
- RIP Naná Vasconcelos
- Vintage Chart Toppers Episode 3
- CD Review: Marcos Varela - San Ygnacio.
- The Early Bird Sessions @ The Lit & Phil. March 12
- RIP Keith Emerson
- Svarc Hanley Longhawn @ The Jazz Café. March 11
- Motherese + Zoe Gilby Trio + Jennifer Parry @ The ...
- The Jazz Clams @ The Globe - March 10.
- Love For Sale: A Superb Song
- Treasure Trove revealed
- The Safe Sextet @ The Jazz Café - March 8
- CD Review: Ninna Milner: Songs For Sentient Beings
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival (Day 3) @ North...
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival (Day 2) @ North...
- Book Review: Billie Holiday - The Musician and the...
- CD Review: Aki Rissanen Trio - Amorandom
- CD Review: Gabriela Martina - No White Shoes
- CD Review - Jazz @ The Spotted Dog, Birmingham
- Big Muddy @ The Globe - March 5
- Our Man On The Air In Hong Kong
- Jam Experiment @ The Jazz Café. March 4
- CD Review: Tommaso Starace/Michele Di Toro - From ...
- Get Carter @ Northern Stage
- CD Review: Jeff Williams – Outlier
- Alice Grace Quartet @ The Cherry Tree
- jazz plus productions
- Jazz Café Jam - March 1.
- America’s Jazz Times Honours Its Own
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