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Bebop Spoken There

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Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Sun 22: Hot Club du Nord @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £15.00. + bf. Xmas party. SOLD OUT!
Sun 22: Red Kites Jazz @ Gibside Chapel, nr. Rowlands Gill. 1:00pm. Admission charge applies.
Sun 22: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 22: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Revolutionaires @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Superb rhythm & blues outfit.
Sun 22: Laurence Harrison, Paul Grainger & Mark Robertson @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Line-up TBC.
Sun 22: The Globe Xmas Party @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Live music (musicians TBC).
Sun 22: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Zerox, Sandhill, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors).

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. TBC.
Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Mike Durham’s Classic Jazz Party @ The Village Hotel. Nov 5, afternoon

(Review by Russell/photo courtesy of Patti Durham & Emra hErken)).
Friday’s late night jam session attendees appeared to be the same early Saturday morning breakfasters. Perhaps they hadn’t been to bed. The festival CD and book stall attracted an enthusiastic crowd: I think I’ve got that one. I’ll buy it anyway. By eleven, Alnwick’s VIP Brewery greeted its enthusiastic customers once more. Not one, but two hand pulls kept a cask-to-concert hall line of customers happy.
(Photo Richard Exall & Thomas Winterler at Jam Session). 
Noon. Famous Duos introduced themselves to another capacity audience. Recreating the 1930 studio session which yielded Dear Old Southland, Bent Persson’s Louis Armstrong to Keith Nichols’s Buck Washington enthralled the 2016 Classic Jazz Party gathering. As did the Venuti-Lang Wild Cat duet performed by Emma Fisk and Martin Wheatley. At an indecent hour (approximately ten minutes past midday!) Mellow Baku sang Bessie Smith accompanied by David Boeddinghaus (piano). Baku was all a fluster thinking of her jelly roll Kitchen Man. Imagine Bix on cornet and piano. Andy Schumm and Martin Litton did just that on In a Mist. A gem of a session.
Fats Waller’s Rhythm commanded the stage for a fast moving hour of Fats, courtesy of Keith Nichols. My Fate is in Your Hands said Nichols, Menno Daams nailed the coda on  Ain’t Misbehavin’  and, such is his authority on the subject, Nichols included a tune never actually recorded by Waller – Prisoner of Love.

Following Louis (a gargantuan task) hit the heights, although it took three of them to get there! Armstrong disciples Bent Persson, Duke Heitger (USA) and Rico Tomasso shared the workload in a career retrospective. Joining them in the enterprise were Switzerland’s Thomas Winteler, reeds, Alistair Allan, trombone and a dream rhythm section led by the New Orleanian David Boeddinghaus, piano, Frenchman Henri Lemaire, guitar and banjo, Graham Hughes, bass and Nick Ball, drums. Heitger’s take on I Cover the Waterfront, an excellent Basie-ish blues and the three trumpets closer with rarely heard verse – Rocking Chair – confirmed this hour long set a truly memorable occasion.

Ms Mellow Baku visited New York, USA, via a Leicester Slug and Lettuce residency and perhaps unwittingly, New York, North Tyneside. New York and Mellow presented Baku   singing a selection of classic numbers. Mellow, a firm favourite of the Classic Jazz Party, sang one great tune after another: Lady Be Good, Deed I Do, Honeysuckle Rose (in a soft-shoe style, said Baku), Mean to Me, Willow Weep for Me, On the Sunny Side of the Street and Exactly Like You. The latter number rated alongside erstwhile Classic Jazz Party star guest Ms Cécile McLorin-Salvant’s wonderful recording of the McHugh/Fields’ classic.           

The afternoon’s program ended on an emphatic upbeat. Western Swing did what it said on the campfire tin of beans. Appalling ten-gallon Stetsons, the spirit of Bob Wills, this was good fun. Martin Wheatley devised the program, any complaints should be addressed to Mr M Wheatley c/o The Classic Jazz Party.
Russell.
                 



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