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17328 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 612 of them this year alone and, so far, 17 this month (Sept. 5).

From This Moment On ...

September

Tue 10: ???

Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.
Thu 12: The Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Pete Tanton & co.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Donna Hewitt, Bill Watson, Dave Archbold, Adrian Beadnell, Mark Hawkins.

Fri 13: Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Two pianos, two pianists! SOLD OUT!
Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Dilutey Juice @ Old Coal Yard, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £11.00. adv..
Fri 13: Ray Stubbs R & B All-stars @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Classic blues.

Sat 14: Jeff Barnhart’s Silent Film Fest @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 14: Customs House Big Band w. Ruth Lambert @ St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Gardens, Spennymoor DL16 7LR. 7:00pm (6:45pm doors). Tickets £10.00. from the venue or tel: 01388 813404. A ‘BYOB’ event.
Sat 14: Emma Wilson @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. £12.00. Acoustic blues.
Sat 14: Rat Pack - Swingin’ at the Sands @ Billingham Forum. 7:30pm.

Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Jude Murphy, Steve Chambers & Sid White @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 15: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Panharmonia @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 16: Swing Manouche @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 16: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: John Hallam with the James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00. A Blaydon Jazz Club 40th anniversary concert!

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

CD Review: Barb Jungr and John McDaniel - Come Together

Barb Jungr – vocal & harmonicas; John McDaniel – piano & vocal.
(Review by Debra M)
Come Together  is the latest album from internationally acclaimed cabaret chanteuse & jazz performer Barb Jungr. Previously she has undertaken projects that have focussed on a broad range of individual artists, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Elvis, Nina Simone & Peggy Lee. Now, in collaboration with pianist & arranger John McDaniel, she has turned her attention to the Beatles Songbook. With around 237 originals the choice is wide, and the selection includes songs from throughout the band’s career, including some lesser known gems, wisely avoiding the most overplayed Lennon/McCartney standards.
The opening piano intro is a brief musical reference to Let It Be, and makes a rapid transition to an uptempo & fresh interpretation of Got to Get You into My Life. The stripped down piano and voice format enable McCartney’s outstanding lyric to come to the fore, and this is particularly effective in The Things We Said Today, For No One, The Fool on the Hill and Eleanor Rigby. McDaniel’s piano accompaniment is sensitive and dynamic, and he provides backing harmonies, & taking lead vocal on two of my favourite lesser known Beatles songs Mother Nature’s Son and George Harrison’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps (whilst remaining on the piano).  In three tracks, two or more songs are combined; It’s Getting Better/Here, There and Everywhere, Something/The Long and Winding Road, and It’s For You/Step Inside Love, the latter a pairing of tunes McCartney wrote for Cilla Black.  Perhaps this approach was inspired by the Beatles own medley on Abbey Road  (this reviewer’s favourite Beatles album), however, I’m not sure it adds much musically other than enabling the inclusion of a few more pieces. 
Sometimes it is hard to compensate for the mastery of George Martin’s arrangements and production, so whilst Back In The USSR is transformed into a lively bluesy, honky-tonk number, with a harmonica solo from Jungr, it is no match for the original  Beach Boys’ pastiche on the White Album. However, as with many of these great songs, McDaniel & Jungr really get hold of the title track Come Together and make it their own.  Overall, a worthy project, and it would be great to see the duo’s interpretations as a live performance. (Editors note - They are touring the project but mainly down south apart from a hop over to Berlin and to New York for a December date at Birdland).
Debra M.

2 comments :

Unknown said...

Not just 'down south'. 2 nights in the glorious Swan Inn in the village of Dobcross in Saddleworth near Manchester. 12 & 13 November.

Up North! said...

i.e.In the Midlands ;-)

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