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

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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Wed 22: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 22: Darlington Big Band @ Traveller's Rest, Cockerton. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public). Note change of venue - this week only.
Wed 22: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 22: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 4:00-6:00pm. Free.
Thu 23: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Bar Loco, Newcasatle. From 6:30pm 'til late. Free. Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra jam session. All welcome (students & non-students).
Thu 23: Kerrin Tatman + John Garner & John Pope @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 23: Sunna Gunnlaugs & Julia Hülsmann @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm. A two-piano gig. A Sage Gateshead-JNE promotion.
Thu 23: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano.
Thu 23: Sleep Suppressor @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00., £8.00. adv. Upstairs.
Thu 23: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Monday, April 11, 2016

The Up North Southern Roundup

(Report by Russell).
Bebop Spoken Here’s roving reporter Tony Eales has been out and about Down South. If there’s a gig, Our Man Eales is sure to be there. Last week’s Empty Shop welcomed Alan Glen. The veteran master pianist wowed the crowd with his expansive modern jazz piano playing in the company of bassist John Pope and drummer Paul Wight. The next concert at 35c Framwellgate Bridge in Durham features the Peter Gilligan Trio (May 5).
The following day (Friday 8) Eales took in the Graham Hardy-Paul Edis lunchtime gig at the Gala Theatre, Durham. The Studio space all but sold out for the occasion – lunchtime jazz clearly a preference for some – to hear timeless numbers and a few of originals. Boot St Blues (comp. Hardy), Parisian Thoroughfare, Black and Tan Fantasy, All the Things You Are, a JS Bach two part invention – just a selection of the tunes heard at the Gala. On May 20 (1:00pm) you can hear the Lindsay Hannon Plus.
Yesterday was Big Band Sunday for Eales. His regular lunchtime appointment at the Park Inn, Hartlepool with Musicians Unlimited didn’t disappoint. Mick Donnelly begged leave of absence and the dependable Peter Morgan picked-up the MD baton. Vocal duties were shared by the veteran GAS book interpreter Mr Bob Caswell and Young Pretender to his crown Mr Paul Skerritt.
Eales was impressed by trumpeter Bill Watson’s solo on I Remember Clifford at the early Sunday evening meeting of Darlington Jazz Club at St Augustine’s (Larchfield Street) as the Darlington Big Band drew a fair few enthusiasts less than a fortnight before the start of this year’s Darlington Jazz Festival.
Tony Eales heads north this week for the Gateshead International Jazz Festival. You can’t miss him – he’ll have a handful of leaflets promoting gigs in Darlington, Durham, Wigan, Scarborough, Los Angeles and he’ll be enthusing about a new out of this world big band session he’s just heard about on Mars.             
Russell.

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