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Bebop Spoken There

Abbie Finn: "Even though there's a lot of great work being done to promote women in jazz, I still come up against some attitudes! I pulled up at a recording session with my drums in the car and the studio owner said, 'I'm sorry, this space is reserved for the drummer!'" - (Jazzwise April 2023).

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

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

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

Tue 21: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 21: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Jacob Egglestone (guitar); Jamie Watkins (bass guitar); Bailey Rudd (drums).

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.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Summertyne Americana July 22

 (Review by Russell)
For once the sun shone and Summertyne Americana lived up to its name. The revolving East Door at Sage Gateshead was just that – ever-revolving with ten gallon Stetsons and gaudy Hawaiian shirts parading their sartorial elegance. The Jumpin’ Hot Club open-air stage pitched on Performance Square hosted one turn after another – alt country, blues, hokum, in essence all things Americana.
Two stand-out sets were circled in the diary months ago and they lived up to expectation and more. First up, the veteran Hokum Hotshots followed by blues singer Teresa Watson.
Hokum Hotshots: Jim Murray (guitars, mandolin & vocals) and Pete Mason (guitars, ukulele, washboard, kazoo & vocals)
Jim Murray and Pete Mason play the blues. They play tunes of the Dust Bowl and its old timey forebears; an Appalachian folk tune, a Cajun jig, a Deep South gumbo. Shieldsmen Murray and Mason do it with panache, it’s as though they aren’t trying. They’re students of the genre, they’ve played the music for years, they’ve got the patter and an in-the-head set list as long as a ‘gator in the Mississippi.
Between sets the Red Arrows screamed overhead heading north east, then, banking left in formation, swooped low to Newcastle International Airport, their base prior to an evening appointment down the coast at Sunderland International Air Show. Bizarrely, some Sage rednecks burst into a round of applause. A long queue formed at the pop-up bar of one of the region’s micro breweries (a pint in a plastic glass at £4.00.). A neighbouring stall did its best to entice the hordes with the offer of burger, fries and soda – yours for £8.00. The under-unoccupied burger flipper had plenty of time to listen to the music.

Teresa Watson Blues Band: Teresa Watson (vocals), Johnny Whitehill (guitar), Paul
Donaldson (keyboards), John Morgan (bass) & Barry Race (drums)
A couple of years ago Teresa Watson went along to Summertyne Americana as a punter. A lady in self-imposed retirement, Watson decided she would like to be up there on stage – the roar of the greasepaint and smell of the crowd, and all that – and now in 2016, here she was, belting out the blues once more. Reunited with some of the best bluesmen on the scene, Watson was delighted to play ‘this little festival’. Our vocalist’s joined-at-the-hip bass and drums team – John Morgan and Barry Race – laid the foundations for a Johnny Whitehill guitar master class. The Northumbrian doesn’t strike a pose, his vintage Gibson Les Paul does the talking. Peter Green an obvious influence, referencing Chicago heroes, Whitehill’s encyclopedic knowledge of the genre makes him a guitarist’s guitarist. Teresa Watson is a Love Me Like a Man woman, happiest when she is telling you how it was and how it could be, the lot of a blues woman.

Americana at Sage Gateshead is an occasion. Outdoor, in door – on the concourse and in the halls – you’re never more than a few paces from bumping into a dude with a Stetson. Do take time to view the photographic exhibition outside Sage One and Sage Two. Sage in association with Amber is showing The Preacher and his Congregation. Side Gallery across the river in Newcastle is currently closed for major renovation works. Americana has taken the opportunity to loan James Perry Walker’s photographs of Reverend Louis Cole and his congregation shot on location in 1970s rural Mississippi and Tennessee. The Newcastle gallery reopens on October 1st, this Gateshead exhibition is a rare opportunity to view an important part of the documentary collection before it is returned to the vaults.
Russell.                 

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