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February 2025
Fri 14: John Rowland Trio @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00-2:00pm. £5.00. at the door. New second Friday in the month concert series.
Fri 14: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 14: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 14: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 14: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 14: Archipelago + Anna Tempest @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £8.00.
Fri 14: Paul Jones & Dave Kelly @ Alnwick Playhouse. 7:30pm. Rhythm & blues.
Fri 14: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The White Room, Stanley. 7:45pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 14: Fiona Finden’s Jazz Express @ Flash House Brewing Co., North Shields. 8:00pm.
Fri 14: Jazz Sabbath @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Sat 15: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: James Birkett & Emma Fisk @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Sat 15: Elkie Brooks @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. ‘The Long Farewell Tour’.
Sat 15: Milne Glendinning Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 16: MOBO Song @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 12 noon. Free, performances on the concourse. Line-up inc. Jazz Attack (on stage time TBC) & Jambone (12:20pm).
Sun 16: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 1:00-2:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 16: MOBO Awards Fringe 2025: BBC Introducing NE X MOBO Showcase @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:00pm. Free (ticketed). Line-up inc. Jambone, Knats, Rivkala, SwanNek.
Sun 16: The Shayo Experience @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 16: Gerry Richardson Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. .
Mon 17: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 17: Matt Forster Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00. at the door; £8.20. (inc £0.20 bf) online, in advance.
Mon 17: Russ Morgan Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 18: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law, Paul Grainger, John Hirst.
Wed 19: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 19: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 19: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 20: James Birkett & Emma Fisk @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 20: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Jazz Milestones - 1975.
Thu 20: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 20: Orange Claw Hammer + Peony @ The Globe, Newcastle.7:30pm. Orange Claw Hammer play Captain Beefheart.
Thu 20: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm. Featuring special guest Zoë Gilby.
Reviewers wanted
Friday, September 30, 2016
The return of Daniel John Martin!
SeeNine @ Hoochie Coochie - September 29.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
CD Review: Square One – In Motion
Followed By Thirteen @ The Jazz Café – September 27
SeeNine at Eight Thirty Tonight

Wednesday, September 28, 2016
CD Review: Julphan Tilapornputt - Regards to You
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Interview with Tom Harrison

Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Sunday September 25:

Jazz Files and Kill Fee by Fiona Veitch Smith @ Central Library, Newcastle - an observation.


Monday, September 26, 2016
There's more, or maybe less, to Spain than Chick Corea!

Which just goes to show that you can't judge a hotel by its frontage. Then again, can you ever believe what a hotel claims in its brochures like General Franco slept here - and maybe the bed linen hasn't been changed since!
Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday September 24: The Eastern Area Schools Youth Jazz Orchestra
Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday September 24: Barnes/O’Higgins & the Sax Section
Tcha Limberger to play Sage Gateshead!
Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 – Saturday September 24: Nicola Farnon Trio
Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday September 24: SK2 Jazz Orchestra
Sunday, September 25, 2016
CD Review: Alyssa Allgood - Out of the Blue.

Saturday, September 24, 2016
Three Free Gigs Last Night
Friday, September 23, 2016
EP Review: Peter Horsfall - How Can We Know?
Gerry Richardson's Big Idea @ Black Swan Arts Centre - A Dutch Treat!
Michael Woods @ The Lit & Phil. September 23
CD Review: Gene Ess - Absurdist Theatre

Thursday, September 22, 2016
CD Review: Joshua Breakstone - The Cello Quartet: 88
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Jam session @ The Jazz Café. September 20
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
CD Review: Opaluna - Susana Pineda & Luis Salcedo.
Terence Blanchard and Inner City Ensemble @ Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal - September 18
CD Review: Monocled Man – We Drift Meridian
Monday, September 19, 2016
Sleuthing in the Jazz Age
Jeremy McMurray-Mark Toomey Quintet @ Blaydon Jazz Club. September 19
This Thursday @ the Black Swan
Hailey Tuck w. Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie - September 18

Hailey Tuck (vocal); Rick Simpson (piano); Chris Maddock (tenor) + Strictly Smokin' Big Band.*
(Review by Lance).
CD Review: Steve Heckman - Legacy; A Coltrane Tribute.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Nigel Price Trio + Early Bird Band @ Jazz Café - September 16


Nigel Price (gtr); Ross Stanley (Hammond); Steve Brown (dms).
(Review by Lance/Photos courtesy of Mike Tilley)
Smokin' is the expression frequently used to describe organ based trios and, as such, it was no surprise that on a previous northeast gig (Ushaw College Jazz Festival) the fire alarm went off. Tonight wasn't a four-alarm alert but the atmosphere was certainly incendiary as the three guys lit the blue touch paper.
When Harley Met Gary
Lance.
Jazz Co-op @ The Globe: Not Now Charlie: Sept 15

Friday, September 16, 2016
Tonight - The Price is right!
Thursday, September 15, 2016
CD Review: Larry Wilson – No Secrets No Lies
Eyemouth harbours jazz ambitions

The Eyemouth Hippodrome in Berwickshire launches a new programme of jazz concerts when the venue welcomes the New Focus Duo on Sunday, September 18.
Consisting of Scottish National Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski and pianist-composer-arranger Euan Stevenson, New Focus Duo is the scaled down edition of a group that can comprise jazz quartet, string quartet, concert harp and flute and features on two albums, the most recent being New Focus on Song, which was released on Whirlwind Recordings in August.
CD Review: Jimmy O'Connell Sixtet – Arrhythmia
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Preview: Lancaster Jazz Festival - September 16-18.
Jay Phelps Quintet: Projections of Miles @ Harrogate International Festivals - September 13

Jay Phelps (trumpet), Brandon Allen (tenor), Rick Simpson (piano), Mark Lewandowski (bass), Shane Forbes (drums).
More Quotes From Simon Spillett

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, sleeve notes to Ben Webster: 'Webster's Dictionary' (Philips 1970).
"Unfortunately, the fan of yesterday's jazz often becomes an opponent of today's."
Graham Collier, 'Inside Jazz' (Quartet Books, 1973)
"Hardly any of them would know a good jazz chorus if it fell on them. They have learned, parrot-fashion, the litany of American star names and that is that."
Benny Green on British record producers, 'Scene' magazine, October 5th 1962
"Putting live modern jazz across in this country has been like trying to sell balloons in a cemetery."
Peter Clayton, 'Sunday Telegraph', August 30th 1964
Kenton Presents Bob Cooper

Jazz around the clock: BBC Music Jazz digital pop-up returns in collaboration with Jazz FM for 96 solid hours of broadcasting
BBC radio stations and Jazz FM team up for only the second time with more content than ever before on a temporary digital BBC Music radio station
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Lauren Kinsella Ensemble @ Black Swan Arts Centre, Newcastle – September 8
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- The return of Daniel John Martin!
- SeeNine @ Hoochie Coochie - September 29.
- CD Review: Square One – In Motion
- Followed By Thirteen @ The Jazz Café – September 27
- SeeNine at Eight Thirty Tonight
- CD Review: Julphan Tilapornputt - Regards to You
- Interview with Tom Harrison
- Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Sunday September 25:
- Jazz Files and Kill Fee by Fiona Veitch Smith @ Ce...
- There's more, or maybe less, to Spain than Chick C...
- Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday Septembe...
- Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday Septembe...
- Tcha Limberger to play Sage Gateshead!
- Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 – Saturday Septembe...
- Scarborough Jazz Festival 2016 - Saturday Septembe...
- CD Review: Alyssa Allgood - Out of the Blue.
- Three Free Gigs Last Night
- EP Review: Peter Horsfall - How Can We Know?
- Gerry Richardson's Big Idea @ Black Swan Arts Cent...
- Michael Woods @ The Lit & Phil. September 23
- CD Review: Gene Ess - Absurdist Theatre
- CD Review: Joshua Breakstone - The Cello Quartet: 88
- Jam session @ The Jazz Café. September 20
- CD Review: Opaluna - Susana Pineda & Luis Salcedo.
- Terence Blanchard and Inner City Ensemble @ Brewer...
- CD Review: Monocled Man – We Drift Meridian
- Sleuthing in the Jazz Age
- Jeremy McMurray-Mark Toomey Quintet @ Blaydon Jazz...
- This Thursday @ the Black Swan
- Hailey Tuck w. Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie...
- CD Review: Steve Heckman - Legacy; A Coltrane Trib...
- Nigel Price Trio + Early Bird Band @ Jazz Café - S...
- When Harley Met Gary
- Jazz Co-op @ The Globe: Not Now Charlie: Sept 15
- Tonight - The Price is right!
- CD Review: Larry Wilson – No Secrets No Lies
- Eyemouth harbours jazz ambitions
- CD Review: Jimmy O'Connell Sixtet – Arrhythmia
- Preview: Lancaster Jazz Festival - September 16-18.
- Jay Phelps Quintet: Projections of Miles @ Harroga...
- More Quotes From Simon Spillett
- Kenton Presents Bob Cooper
- Jazz around the clock: BBC Music Jazz digital pop-...
- Lauren Kinsella Ensemble @ Black Swan Arts Centre,...
- Corrie Dick - ‘Impossible Things’ @ The Bridge, Ne...
- Jo Harrop With The Paul Edis Trio @ Gala Theatre D...
- Spirit of Mick Danby Fund (Brain Tumour Charity)
- CD Review: Ryan Quigley – What Doesn’t Kill You
- Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord @ Prohibition Bar, Ga...
- American “Jazz Singin’ Super Babe” To Feature With...
- New York Saxophone Star teams up with top UK Jazz ...
- CD Review: Dyad Plays Jazz Arias
- The Rise and Rise of the House of Ushaw
- Bradley Johnston Trio @ The Globe - September 10
- Bill Shaw.
- The After Hours Set
- Film Review: The Geordie Jazzman
- Goodbye Dear Friend...
- Jazz Today - Operation Jam Session
- CD Review: Natalie Cressman And Mike Bono - Etchin...
- And they boogied on…
- Bonga, Champion & Mwamba - Bridge Hotel, Newcastle...
- Jazz Café Jam Tuesday Sept. 6
- Don't Let Good (win) Music go to Waste!
- CD Review: The Girshevich Trio - Algorithmic Socie...
- CD Review: Flying Machines.
- Jazz Co-op @ The Globe: Dave Weisser, Alan Law and...
- Gene Ammons All Stars - a hi-fi modern jazz jam se...
- On the trail of a policeman
- CD Review: Stu Brown's Twisted Toons Vol 2 - The M...
- Price Smokin’ at the Jazz Café
- CD Review: Dinosaur – Together, As One
- Further Reflections on Ushaw…
- Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You – A Love Song?
- Ushaw Captured!
- Reflections on Ushaw by Steve T.
- Nigel Price Trio @ Ushaw Durham Jazz Festival – Au...
- New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Ushaw Durham Jazz ...
- Square One @ Durham Ushaw Jazz Festival - August 28
- Jam Session with the Peter Gilligan Trio @ Ushaw D...
- CD Review: Henrik Jensen’s Followed by Thirteen – ...
- CD Review: Sean Foran – Frame of Reference
- RIP Bill Shaw.. Update, funeral details added.
- Born to be Blue
- Alan Barnes & Bruce Adams with Paul Edis Trio @ Us...
- Mark Williams & Joel McCullough @ Ushaw Durham Jaz...
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