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Wed 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 04: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:30-4:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Wed 04: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 8:00pm. Concert. Free. .
Wed 04: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 04: Kat Eaton @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:15pm. Soulful vocals, excellent band.
Thu 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 05: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘George - named musicians, vocalists & composers (Chisholm, Duke, Lewis, Shearing, Benson, Melly, Gershwin et al)’.
Thu 05: Jools Holland’s R & B Orchestra @ Newcastle City Hall. 7:30pm.
Thu 05: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. Free.
Thu 05: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. Guest band special with the Middlesbrough Jazz and Blues Orchestra 8pm. Free.
Fri 06: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 06: Sue Ferris Quintet @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Sat 07: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Hot Club du Nord @ St. Cuthbert’s Church, Shadforth DH6 1LB. Tel: 01429 823400. 7:30pm. £15.00. (inc. refreshments).
Sat 07: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 07: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 7:45-9:45pm. Free.
Sat 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 07: Bluebell Swing @ Repas7 by Night, West St., Berwick. 8:00pm.
Sun 08: The New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free. A ‘second Sunday in the month’ residency.
Sun 08: Learning & Participation Showcase @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Free. Multi-genre event followed by a jam session. All welcome.
Sun 08: Zoë Gilby Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00.
Sun 08: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 08: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 08: Jason Isaacs @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 5:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Sun 08: Paul Skerritt @ The Black Candle, South Shields. 6:30pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 08: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 08: Durham University Big Band + Durham University Jazz Orchestra: Jazzy Christmas @ Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, North Bailey, Durham DH1 3ET. 7:30-9:30pm. £7.00., £6.00. concs., £5.00. Durham Student Music member. Durham University Jazz Ensembles’ annual charity event.
Sun 08: Jools Holland’s R & B Orchestra @ The Globe, Stockton. 7:30pm.
Sun 08: Mick Beck, Dominic Lash, Paul Hession @ the Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm (doors 7:30pm) JNE. £10.
Mon 09: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 09: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.
Mon 09: James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 10: ???
Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Cath Stephens’ improvisation workshop @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 4:30-6:00pm. Collaborative group focusing on vocal improvisations.
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. Second Wednesday in the month.
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
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The Cookers @ Sage Gateshead - November 14.
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4 comments :
Not surprisingly given their horrendous journey and the increased pressure put on the band by their delay I thought the performance was a little undercooked. Despite the obvious class of all the band members the gas could have been turned up a couple of regulos
The musicianship spoke for itself and I liked it a lot but didn't love it. Maybe my expectations were high; how often do you sit in a well short of full Sage 2 level 1 with Sir Lancelot, Lord Paul, Admiral Hardy, Lord and Lady Clark, Duke Bream, Viscount Russell, Count Eales, a lady and a princess whose names I don't know (not to mention the other Steve), and apologies to everyone I've missed.
Funny story. Following a stint with pre- Headhunters Herbie, Eddie Henderson became one of the big names in Jazz-funk.
Mahal was one of my favourite albums of the (sub) genre and featured a track called Cyclops which some bright-spark DJs started playing at 45. This wasn't an isolated incident and I wish I could remember the other record which suffered this indignity. I believe Cyclops even came out on a 12" single (probably unknown to him) pre-sped up.
I often wonder how this happens: did somebody play all albums at 45 just in case? Did the same person play all singles at 33? I have visions of Lance digging his 78s back out.
It's probably far less interesting and somebody just thought it was a good record but too slow for the dancefloor. I always preferred it at the speed he recorded it at but I love the idea of young people googling 33, 45 and 78.
I'm with both Steves on this. I had been anticipating this gig with tremendous enthusiasm (especially as I had missed the band's previous Sage appearance), but it fell some way short of my expectations. Certainly the nightmare journey from Germany that the band had suffered won't have helped, and the rushed preparations perhaps accounted for some of the sound problems, but I just felt that there was an overall lack of focus in the performance as a whole and in many of the solos. I don't usually have a problem with long solos (and I've sat through some monsters in my time), but there were occasions here when I sensed that the musicians were recycling ideas without much sense of structure or direction. Artists of the quality of Billy Harper and Craig Handy (indeed, all seven members of the band) are rarely going to play badly, and they didn't do so here, but equally there were few real heights in anybody's performance.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to have been at the gig, I remain in awe at the musicianship of all the artists, and there were a handful of standout moments (Eddie Henderson on his ballad feature was beautifully measured), but "even great Homer nods", and nobody was on consistently top form throughout the concert. Which won't stop me going to see them again if the opportunity comes round.
I took an old friend from Edinburgh as a birthday treat, who hasn't seen them before. We both thought they were outstanding and I actually thought it was a better gig than last years, good as that was.
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