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23: Dean Stockdale Quartet @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. ‘Celebrating Oscar’. SOLD OUT!
Fri 23: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 23: Anna Reay & Deon Krishnan @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free.
Fri 23: Joe Steels Group @ The Pele, Corbridge. 7:00pm. £10.00. + £1.55. bf. A Northumberland Jazz Festival fringe event.
Fri 23: Spilt Milk @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Fri 23: Gaz Hughes Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm.
Fri 23: Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 8:00pm. £19.00.; £17.00. ‘Time After Time’.
Sat 24: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 12:30-2:15pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 24: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Bywell Hall, Stocksfield. 1:30pm. Northumberland County Show.
Sat 24: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 24: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ The Peacock, Sunderland. 6:00pm.
Sat 24: Dean Stockdale Quartet + Mingus Sings @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:00pm. Admission: see website: www.queenshall.co.uk. Stockdale (piano); Tim Williams (guitar); Gavin Barras (double bass); Gaz Hughes (drums) + Mingus Sings: Sara Oschlag (vocals); Alan Barnes (reeds); Tim Lapthorn (piano); Arnie Somogyi (double bass); Clark Tracey (drums). A Northumberland Jazz Festival event.
Sat 24: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 24: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sat 24: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm (7:00pm doors). £3.00. + bf.
Sat 24: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 25: Northern Monkey Brass Band @ Spanish City Plaza (outdoor stage). 11:30am & 1:00pm. Free. A Whitley Bay Carnival event.
Sun 25: Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion: Bandstand Sessions @ The Sele, Hexham. 12 noon. Free. A Northumberland Jazz Festival event.
Sun 25: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, North Shields. 1:30pm. Free.
Sun 25: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Catriona Bourne Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Admission: see website: www.queenshall.co.uk. Bourne (harp), Francis Tulip (guitar), James Owston (double bass), Joe Bainbridge (drums). A Northumberland Jazz Festival event.
Sun 25: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 25: Struggle Buggy @ The Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 25: Joe Steels Group + Norma Winstone (vocals); Nikki Iles (piano); Mike Walker (guitar); Steve Watts (double bass). 7:00pm. Admission: see website: www.queenshall.co.uk. Steels (guitar); Ferg Kilsby (trumpet, flugelhorn); Ben Lawrence (piano); Paul Susans (double bass); John Hirst (drums). A Northumberland Jazz Festival event.
Sun 25: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 25: Xhosa Cole/Neil Charles/Mark Sanders @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A JNE promotion. Note: Xhosa Cole replaces Nicole Mitchell.
Mon 26: Catriona Bourne Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00. at the door; £8.20. (inc £0.20 bf) online, in advance.
Mon 26: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 27: Bold Big Band @ Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £12.00. & £10.00.
Tue 27: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ Newcastle House Hotel, Front St., Rothbury NE65 7UT.7:30pm. £12.00.; £10.00. adv. from Tully’s (opp. venue).
Wed 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 28: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 28: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 29: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: That’s the Blues, Dad.
Thu 29: Nova.sol + Mikoudi @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 29: Front Porch Three @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Americana, blues etc.
Reviewers wanted
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
CD Review: Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra - Telepathy & Bop
Monday, January 30, 2017
The Halcyon - ITV 9pm.

Sage Gateshead on Sunday - The Cole Porter Songbook
Soloists: Anna O’Byrne, Caroline Sheen, David Thaxton, Jon Boydon
Conductor: Roderick Dunk
Sunday, January 29, 2017
New Year New Artists @Sage Gateshead. January 29 Saturday Afternoon Session
Jazz Latin Groove @ The Globe: January 28
John Le Carré; Count Basie & Credo


(A day in the life of Lance).
Saturday afternoon I popped into our local Marie Curie shop on the off chance I'd find something worth reading. Bingo! John Le Carré's first George Smiley novel Call For the Dead.
Well worth a pound.
Usually, I avoid the CD shelf - I've enough of them awaiting review without buying discs that I want to listen to for pleasure. However, as I'd once found a Marian McPartland CD here, I did give them a cursory glance and, what did I find? Basie in London!
Mark Pringle / Tom Syson Duo @ The Jazz Cafe January 26
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Globe Gig News
CD Review: The Baylor Project - The Journey
CD Review: Mark Whitfield - Grace
Friday, January 27, 2017
Mark Williams & Joel McCullough @ The Lit & Phil. January 27
Book Review: P.C. Dettmann - Ernest Zevon

Thursday, January 26, 2017
Bill Shaw's Comic Gallery.

CD Review: Mosaic – Subterranea
CD Review: The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Bill Evans - Beauty & the Beast

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
CD Review: Trish Clowes – My Iris
CD Review: Henry Spencer and Juncture – The Reasons Don’t Change
Preview for New Year New Artists @ Sage this Saturday January 28.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Going Dutch @ The Lit & Phil (afternoon session) - January 22
Going Dutch @ The Lit & Phil (evening session) - January 22
Dutch Treat @ The Jazz Cafe January 21.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Memorabilia
Budtet @ The Globe Jazz Bar - January 21

Sunday, January 22, 2017
CD Review:Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra - Efferevescence

Graeme Wilson Quintet @ Opus 4, Travellers Rest, Darlington January 20.

Saturday, January 21, 2017
RIP Terry Cryer

Triggerlawross @ The Jazz Café. Jan 20 - and a wedding...
Friday, January 20, 2017
Washington and Donald Swing

The opening number is said to going to be My Way. When the Sinatra family was asked if that would be okay, Nancy Sinatra replied (I'm told) 'Sure, just remember the first line' - And now, the end is near...
Abe Lincoln.
CD Review: Miguel Zenon - Tipico
CD Review: Audrey Silver - Very Early

Thursday, January 19, 2017
Songbook - The Performers, Band Leaders, Arrangers, Instrumentalists & Vocalists

Wednesday, January 18, 2017
CD Review: Benedikt Jahnel Trio – Invariant
Jazz Café Jam Session - January 17.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
CD Review: John Abercrombie Quartet – Up and Coming
Monday, January 16, 2017
Stumblin'

Sunday, January 15, 2017
Jazz Café Press Release

Saturday, January 14, 2017
Film review: La La Land
Friday, January 13, 2017
Alan Glen Trio @ The Globe Jazz Bar - January 12.
(Review by Lance).
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Tonight @ The Globe.
Nothing unlucky about being in Saltburn on Friday the 13th!
New Kid on the Block.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Jazz Record Requests Returns to Sage Gateshead
Death of a Legend. RIP Buddy Greco (August 14, 1926 - January 10, 2017)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017)

Lance.
Full Marks To Caffè Nero At South Shields ...

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- CD Review: Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra - Tel...
- The Halcyon - ITV 9pm.
- Sage Gateshead on Sunday - The Cole Porter Songbook
- New Year New Artists @Sage Gateshead. January 29 S...
- Jazz Latin Groove @ The Globe: January 28
- John Le Carré; Count Basie & Credo
- Mark Pringle / Tom Syson Duo @ The Jazz Cafe Janu...
- Globe Gig News
- CD Review: The Baylor Project - The Journey
- CD Review: Mark Whitfield - Grace
- Mark Williams & Joel McCullough @ The Lit & Phil. ...
- Book Review: P.C. Dettmann - Ernest Zevon
- Bill Shaw's Comic Gallery.
- CD Review: Mosaic – Subterranea
- CD Review: The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra wi...
- CD Review: Trish Clowes – My Iris
- CD Review: Henry Spencer and Juncture – The Reason...
- Preview for New Year New Artists @ Sage this Satur...
- Going Dutch @ The Lit & Phil (afternoon session) -...
- Going Dutch @ The Lit & Phil (evening session) - J...
- Dutch Treat @ The Jazz Cafe January 21.
- Memorabilia
- Budtet @ The Globe Jazz Bar - January 21
- CD Review:Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra - Effer...
- Graeme Wilson Quintet @ Opus 4, Travellers Rest, D...
- RIP Terry Cryer
- Triggerlawross @ The Jazz Café. Jan 20 - and a wed...
- Washington and Donald Swing
- CD Review: Miguel Zenon - Tipico
- CD Review: Audrey Silver - Very Early
- Songbook - The Performers, Band Leaders, Arrangers...
- Moonlighting Season 2 Episode 4 The Dream Sequence...
- CD Review: Benedikt Jahnel Trio – Invariant
- Jazz Café Jam Session - January 17.
- CD Review: John Abercrombie Quartet – Up and Coming
- Stumblin'
- Jazz Café Press Release
- The Whisky Glass Blues - Scott Black & Red Pellin...
- James (The Mesmeriser) Harrison & Friends. Saltbur...
- Film review: La La Land
- Alan Glen Trio @ The Globe Jazz Bar - January 12.
- Tonight @ The Globe.
- Nothing unlucky about being in Saltburn on Friday ...
- New Kid on the Block.
- Jazz Record Requests Returns to Sage Gateshead
- Death of a Legend. RIP Buddy Greco (August 14, 192...
- Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017)
- Full Marks To Caffè Nero At South Shields ...
- CD Review: The Fred Hughes Trio - Matrix
- Vintage Chart toppers
- Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe - January 4
- Zoe Gilby (vocal)/ Alan Law (piano) @ The Jazz Caf...
- Hong Kong Calling...
- New Jam in Billingham
- Jazz North East and Dutch Performing Arts present ...
- CD Review: Ron Boustead - Unlikely Valentine
- 2016 – The Year in Vinyl by Steve T.
- Jazz Mags Looking for a Home
- Bongo Boy And Butt Girl - An In Chanting Couple (A...
- Dave Shepherd (February 7, 1929 - December 15, 2016)
- Makes it all worth while!
- Paul Skerritt Band
- A Look at 2016
- Blame it on their youth
- Preview: Southport Jazz Festival @ Royal Clifton H...
- CD Review: Alex Levine Quartet - Towards the Center
- NCRO Tickets Now on Sale
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