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15516 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 536 of them this year alone and, so far, 25 this month (June 7).

From This Moment On ...

Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Fri 09: Emma Rawicz @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm.

Sat 10: Miners' Picnic @ Woodhorn, Ashington. Music inc. Northern Monkey Brass Band (3:00-3:50pm); New York Brass Band (4:00-4:55pm).
Sat 10: Jeffrey Hewer @ The Vault, Darlington Covered Market, Darlington. 6:00-8:00pm. Free.
Sat 10: Front Porch Three @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Americana, blues, jazz etc.
Sat 10: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 11: WORKSHOP: Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Workshop @ JG Windows, Newcastle. Time TBC. Further details tel. 0191 232 1356.
Sun 11: Jeremy McMurray's Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Ropner Park, Stockton TS18 4EF. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 11: Groovetrain @ Innisfree Sports & Social Club, Longbenton NE12 8TY. Doors 6:30pm. £15.00 (£7.00. under 16).
Sun 11: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 11: Jam No. 19 @ Fabio's Bar, Saddler Street, Durham. 8:00pm. Free. All welcome. A Durham University Jazz Society event.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 13: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 13: Infusion Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:30pm.
Tue 13: Alice Grace & Pawel Jedrzejewski @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv.).

Wed 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 14: NUJO Final Jazz Jam @ Bar Loco, Newcastle. 6:30pm. Free. Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra's final jam session of the academic year. All welcome.
Wed 14: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 14: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 14: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 15: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 15: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 15: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Thu 15: Alexander Ord Trio @ Tynedale Beer & Cider Festival, Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge. Evening, time TBC.
Thu 15: Têtes de Pois + Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. Time TBC.
Thu 15: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.

Saturday, December 24, 2016

Jazz Coop Xmas Party 2016 @ The Globe, Newcastle - December 22

(Review by Steve T).
The night began for me around eight and already a good crowd and good food; always a good sign.
A prior engagement diverted me to Hoochie Coochie for the first half of King Bee, rewarded with some toon fonk and a taste  of the Jelly genius. Then back to the Globe where number one son had a date with a certain drummer.
When we got back the stage was crowded for the only really seasonal song I heard all night; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
With Mathew MacKellar’s departure imminent the stage cleared for something a bit serious, and, from the three youngest people in the building, though three of the finest teenage Jazz musicians in the region.

FDT would have benefited from his own amp or a sound-check but nobody but me seemed to mind; there's a definite improvement following his three months in the Black Country. Dan Lawrence stepped up to the mark with a five string bass, though he'd never played one before, and with no drop in standard even though performance isn't part of his course in Manchester. And Matthew, warmed up and playing to a home crowd, just keeps getting better.   
An unidentified trumpet player stuck around for Oleo but they were down to a trio for Ladybird and don't be surprised if this is a regular working band in a few years time.
Normal service was then resumed with Dave Weisser leading various sized and shaped ensembles including drums, percussion, bass, guitar, keys, at least two saxes and at least three trumpets, when Judith, who I've heard sing before but tonight was playing sax as well, suddenly produced a flute. And then someone arrived with a trombone. Add Weisser, Judith and Debra Milne singing and various ladies (and the odd man) dancing and this was a monster jam.
Earlier the Blue Jazz Sextet had done the business and, as one of the few bands I've seen at the Globe, a reminder that I haven't been there anything like often enough. I feel a New Year’s Resolution coming on.
Sixty or seventy people and only a few I recognised but no one I felt I knew well enough to get a list of the names of the musicians, though every one of them played their part.
What I really like about the Globe is that every time I go I seem to end up talking Jazz with someone I've never met before, which I love. On Thursday someone asked me to recommend Monk albums and I had to confess I've never really got him, though I haven't conceded defeat yet, but I pointed him in the direction of the eighteen-year-old bass player on the stage who happily obliged. Then Mingus came up, so no assistance needed there.
A great jam session with something for everyone: some serious Jazz, some Christmas stuff, lots of willing musicians with varying abilities, a great crowd and great food; exactly what a good party is all about.

Steve T.

1 comment :

NORMAN said...

Hi Steve the unidentified trumpet plaver keeping up with Matthews youthful trio was the 20!! year old Don Forbes and what a lot of people missed out on was the late late jam that kicked off at midnight when a couple of guys from I believe from the Theatre Royal turned up and inspired Dave Parker along with Dave W and Jude ,Don Forbes, key player from blue jazz to a memorable finish to the evening. thanks to all thosed involved ALL THE BEST FOR THE NEW YEAR

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