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October
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. Guests: Kevin Eland (trumpet), Neil Brodie (trumpet), Dave Archbold (keys), Adrian Beadnell (bass), Mark Hawkins (drums). 8:30pm. Free.
Fri 25: Daniel John Martin w. Swing Manouche @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 25: Russ Morgan Quartet @ Gala Theatre, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 25: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 25: The Clare Teal Five @ Gala Theatre, Durham. 7:30pm. £25.00. All-star line-up.
Fri 25: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 26: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:30-4:15pm. Free.
Sat 26: Donny McCaslin @ The Engine Room, Tanners’ Bank, North Shields. 3:30pm. £15.00. + bf. McCaslin ‘In Conversation’, focusing on his association with David Bowie. Kevin Armstrong (David Bowie) will read from his biography.
Sat 26: Donny McCaslin Quartet @ The 1856 Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm. £25.00. + bf. Standing gig with limited seating at the bar. McCaslin with his American quartet in North Shields!
Sat 26: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £3.00. +bf.
Sat 26: Jude Murphy & Dan Stanley @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Daniel John Martin w. Swing Manouche @ Queen’s Hall (Library), Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 27: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free. Rescheduled to Sunday 3rd November.
Sun 27: Paul Skerritt @ The Black Candle, Dean Road, Westoe, South Shields. From 5:30pm. To reserve a table call 07724 234449. ‘Jazz by Candlelight’.
Sun 27: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn Community Theatre. 7:30pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 27: Daniel John Martin w. Swing Manouche @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
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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