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17421 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 695 of them this year alone and, so far, 100 this month (Sept. 30).

From This Moment On ...

October

Wed 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free. Wed 09: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 09: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 09: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 09: Shunya, Dudù Kouate & Seb Rochford @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). £21.00.

Thu 10: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 10: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘Collaborations - it happened all the time’.
Thu 10: Indigo Jazz Voices w. the Little Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 10: Side Cafe Orkestar @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
The 10: Classic Swing @ Carlisle Rugby Club, Warwick Rd., Carlisle. 8:30pm. £9.
Thu 10: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. With guests Donna Hewitt (sax); Bill Watson (trumpet); Graham Thompson (keys); Ron Smith (bass). Free.

Fri 11: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 11: Dulcie May Moreno @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 11: The Jazz Quartet + Stratosphonic @ Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge. 7:00pm. £15.00. A Rotary Club of Hexham event. The Jazz Quartet (Jude Murphy & co), Stratosphonic (blues/rock). CANCELLED!
Fri 11: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Market Place, Corbridge NE45 5AW. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 11: Crooners @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 11: Mo Scott Band @ Blues Underground, Nelson St., Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sat 12: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 12: Michael Woods @ Victoria Tunnel, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £12.00. (£10.00. adv.). Country blues guitar & vocals.
Sat 12: Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.28, £11.16, £9.04. A two-track recording launch gig.
Sat 12: Stuart Turner @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rockabilly, rhythm & blues etc. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 12: Lapwing Jazz Trio @ The Ship Inn, Low Newton. 8:00pm. Free. New trio: Paula Whitty, Richard Herdman, Jude Murphy.

Sun 13: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 13: Emma Wilson @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 13: Catfish Keith @ The Cluny. 7:00pm. Country blues.
Sun 13: Cath Stephens & Paul Grainger @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Stephens & Grainger, one third of a triple bill.
Sun 13: Dulcie May Moreno Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 14: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 14: Black is the Color of My Voice @ Hippodrome, Darlington. 7:30pm. Apphia Campbell’s one-woman show inspired by Nina Simone, performed by Nicholle Cherrie.

Tue 15: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano), Paul Grainger (double bass), Bailey Rudd (drums).

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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