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Postage

15260 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 279 of them this year alone and, so far, 92 this month (March 29).

From This Moment On ...

April

Sun 02: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny. 12:45pm.
Sun 02: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.

Mon 03: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 04: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 04: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Bradley Johnston (guitar); Paul Grainger (double bass); Abbie Finn (drums).

Wed 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 05: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 05: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 05: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 06: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Donations. Feat. John Pope, Marie Shreer, John Garner.
Thu 06: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibtion Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 06: Darlington Big Band @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Note earlier start time.

Fri 07: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 07: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 07: Gaz Hughes Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 07: Mark Toomey Quartet @ Traveller's Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 07: Finntet + Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion @ Bobik's, Punch Bowl, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE.
Fri 07: TBA @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig. Blind Pig Blues Club.

Sat 08: Me Lost Me + Ceitidh Mac + Heather Ferrier @ Bobik's, Punch Bowl, Newcastle. 7:30pm. JNE.
Sat 08: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington Covered Market, Darlington DL1 5PN. 6:00pm. New venue, live jazz!
Sat 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00. RESCHEDULED from last week (Sat 01).
Sat 08: Robbie Reay @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Acoustic blues. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sat 08: Anth Purdy @ Mr Tighe's, Bebside, Northumberland. 8:30pm.

Saturday, September 03, 2016

CD Review: Dinosaur – Together, As One

Laura Jurd (trumpet & synth), Elliot Galvin (Fender Rhodes, Hammond Organ), Conor Chaplin (electric bass) & Corrie Dick (drums)
(Review by Russell)
Laura Runs the Voodoo Down! Synth, then trumpet, BBC New Generation Artist Laura Jurd opens her new CD Together, As One playing synthesiser soon giving way to electric Miles. This new recording, the highly talented trumpeter’s third as leader, consists of an eclectic eight track mix of material, all of it written by Jurd.
Reigned-in Hammond and quirky synth escapades indicate a sense of fun underpinning a restless creative mind. Drummer Corrie Dick is endlessly inventive, and prominent in the mix, in contrast to the laid back, in-the-pocket bass playing of Conor Chaplin. Pianist and Hammond Organist Elliot Galvin grooves where the groove should be, skillfully avoiding surging synth interjections. Robin suggests a Scottish TV game show theme tune morphing into a post-Tomorrow’s World signature tune.

Balkan to Motown to a Deep Purple-inspired rocking riff, Together, As One covers much ground and, mixing metaphor, teeters on the brink of falling between several stools. Two compositions – Extinct and Primordial – account for approximately one third of the forty seven minutes’ worth of music on the CD and are, perhaps, at the heart of it all. Jurd has toured and recorded frequently over the last few years. Her work with Dinosaur, as heard on this new release, will continue to develop. It is difficult to predict where Jurd’s music will go to next. That is all part of the fun. We await developments.              

Together, As One by Dinosaur is released on September 16 by Edition Records (EDN 1078). A winter tour begins begin at Kings Place, London on November 3 and includes a journey ‘up north’ to play gigs at NCEM, York ( November 11) and Seven Arts, Leeds on November 13. The tour itinerary continues into 2017, with a date at the Band on the Wall in Manchester on January 19.      
Russell.

2 comments :

Ken Drew (on F/b) said...

What timing !!! A track from this CD was played on today's BBC R3 NGA Saturday lunchtime (12:15) programme featuring NGA artists. This weeks programme was titled "Beethoven, Schumann, Dauprat, Laura Jurd" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07rks3w Jurd/Dinosaur is at 37m0s

S Tulip said...

Corrie Dick is a really inventive drummer. And I believe his own band are at the Bridge next sunday 11th.

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