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The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

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13,367 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 13 years ago. 785 of them this year alone and, so far, 59 this month (June 16).

From This Moment On

JUNE

Thu 17: Maine Street Jazzmen @ Sunniside Social Club, Gateshead (8:30pm).

Fri 18: Jazz Jamaica @ Sage Gateshead (8:00pm).

Sat 19: Jude Murphy @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle (8:00pm).

Sun 20 Knats @ The Globe, Newcastle (8:00pm). Advance booking essential: www.jazz.coop. SOLD OUT. Livestream available from £7.50.

Mon 21: Jazz in the Afternoon @ Cullercoats Crescent Club (1:00pm). POSTPONED!

Wed 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club (1:00pm). POSTPONED!

Thu 24: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, North Tyneside 1:00pm).

Thu 24: Maine Street Jazzmen @ Sunniside Social Club, Gateshead (8:30pm).

Friday, October 14, 2016

Seven days and counting…

(Preview by Russell).
Until the return of Vasilis Xenopoulos! Master tenor saxophonist Xenopoulos will be at the Traveller’s Rest on West Auckland Road in Darlington a week today, Friday 21st. A whistle stop tour (Darlington, two dates in Cumbria, then Blaydon) reunites Xenopoulos with pianist Paul Edis. Friends since working together in London, Vasi makes an annual visit to the region never failing to wow audiences with his swinging tenor playing. A gig with Paul Edis, bassist Andy Champion and Russ Morgan, drums, is an occasion no one should miss.

So, you have not one, but two opportunities to hear Xenopoulos in action. First at Opus 4 Jazz Club at the Traveller’s Rest, then on Sunday 23rd at the Black Bull, Blaydon. They are pay on the door gigs but the best advice is to arrive early. Pitch the tent midweek and that should just about guarantee admission, although others ahead of you in the queue are sure to bag the seats. Darlington and Blaydon will be standing-room-only affairs with the clubs’ regulars operating a three line whip. Doors at Darlington will open at eight o’clock with the first set starting at 8:30. At Blaydon the first set gets under way at eight.
Tynesiders heading to Darlington by train should head to Tubwell Row to catch a bus out to Cockerton (Traveller’s Rest). Late trains to Newcastle run either side of midnight. The Black Bull gig is easily accessible from Newcastle. The 10A (6:40pm), and 12 (6:45pm) from Eldon Square Bus Station will get you there in good time to grab a seat and there is a reliable, convenient last bus at 10:55 arriving Clayton Street West at five past eleven. A Bebop Spoken Here Gold Star Award awaits those who make Darlington and Blaydon!       

Russell.        
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