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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!"

Postage

15867 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 874 of them this year alone and, so far, 72 this month (Sept. 25).

From This Moment On ...

September

Tue 26: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.

Wed 27: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 27: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 27: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Alice Grace Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 28: Faye MacCalman + Snape/Sankey @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 28: Zoe Rahman @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 28: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Speakeasy @ Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £15.00. A Southpaw Dance Company presentation. Dance, audio-visuals, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, swing dancers etc.
Thu 28: Mick Cantwell Band @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Ace blues band.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.

Sat 30: John Pope Quintet + Late Girl + Shapeshifters @ Bobik's, Jesmond, Newcastle.
Sat 30: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

OCTOBER

Sun 01: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 01: Dulcie May Moreno sings Portrait of Sheila @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. Moreno sings Sheila Jordan with Giles Strong, Mick Shoulder & John Bradford.
Sun 01: Middlesbrough Jazz & Blues Orchestra @ Saltburn Community Hall. 2:00pm.
Sun 01: The Easy Rollers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.70., £11.55.
Sun 01: Brand/Roberts/Champion/Sanders @ Blank Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sun 01: Papa G's Troves @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 02: FILM: Wattstax; 50th Anniversary @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 8:00pm.

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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