For the past seventeen years we've been updating the world about jazz in the north east of England and updating the north east of England about jazz in the world. WINNER of the Jazz Media Category in the 2018 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Contact lanceliddle@gmail.com
Total Pageviews
Bebop Spoken There
The Things They Say!
Postage
From This Moment On ...
April 2025.
Sat 26: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Darlington. 12 noon. Free (donations).
Sat 26: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 26: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ Elvet Methodist Church, Durham. 7:30pm. Tickets: £12.00. + bf. Duo performance.
Sat 26: Neil Cowley Trio @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £22.50.
Sat 26: Pete Tanton & the Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Andrea Vicari Trio @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); John Bradford (drums).
Sun 27: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Paul Susans, Russ Morgan.
Sun 27: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: JustKing Jones @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.50. JustKing Jones (alto sax, soprano sax); Jordan Williams (piano); Jason Clotter (bass); Malcolm Charles (drums). Ace NYC outfit!
Sun 27: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Swing Manouche @ Warkworth Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00. Tickets from 01665 711388.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Ken Marley, Russ Morgan.
Mon 28: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 29: ???
Wed 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 30: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 30: International Jazz Day @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £16.00.; £14.00. adv.. Feat. Guido Spannocchi, John Pope & Steve Hanley + Take it to the Bridge participants + Open Mic Night participants.
MAY 2025
Thu 01: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Member’s Contribution.
Thu 01: Alabaster de Plume @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 01: Living in Shadows + OUTRI @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 01: The Shayo Experiment @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Shayo Oshodi & Liam Oliver.
Thu 01: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Free.
Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Anna Reay & Deon Krishnan @ STACK, Seaburn. 4:30-6:15pm. Free.
Fri 02: Nauta @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 7:00pm. £7.50. A ‘Nauta’s House’ gig featuring Nauta & guests Shayo Oshodi & David Gray.
Fri 02: Spilt Milk @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Fri 02: Dom Pipkin @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). Solo piano.
Fri 02: Abbie Finn Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00. + bf.
Reviewers wanted
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Thinking about Gabi & Steve @ Sage Gateshead - March 17
Blog Archive
-
▼
2017
(
875
)
-
▼
March
(
75
)
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Millstone. March 30
- CLARE TEAL, GOGO PENGUIN AND SHOBALEADER ONE LEAD ...
- JNE are Stalling Again.
- The Northern Monkey Brass Band @ The Fox, Hexham. ...
- RIP Arthur Blythe.
- CD Review: Thundercat Presents "Drunk"
- CD Review: Akua Dixon - Akua's Dance
- As I was saying about Bob Dylan....
- ARW (Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman) play the music o...
- CD Review: Gianni Bianchini - Type 1
- CD Review: Torben Waldorff – Holiday on Fire
- Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra @ Ronnie Scott's - Ma...
- Maine Street Jazzmen at Seaton Sluice Social Club ...
- RIP Bob Erdos
- BBC Radio 3 - Hitting the High Notes.
- SSBB w. Scarlet Street @ Hoochie Coochie - March 19
- James Harrison & Caroline Bagley @ Jazz Café - Mar...
- Mick Shoulder’s Swing Manouche avec Picasso, Miró ...
- CD Review: Partikel - Counteraction.
- Street Scene
- Andchuck @ Hoochie Coochie - March 23
- Archipelago @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University - ...
- Gateshead International Jazz Festival celebrates L...
- CD Review: Keith Oxman - East of The Village
- An embarrassment of riches @ The Jazz Café - March 21
- GIJF 2017 - Not long now...
- Before Tubby there was Harry
- Triggerlawross @ The Globe March 18
- Red House refurbishments
- Dean Stockdale Trio @ Blaydon Jazz Club - March 19
- Early Birds @ Jazz Café - March 16
- The Family Band @ Jazz Café - March 17
- Thinking about Jazz Record Requests @ Sage Gateshe...
- Breaking News - RIP Chuck Berry.
- CD Review: Erin Dickins - Vignettes
- Thinking about Gabi & Steve @ Sage Gateshead - Mar...
- Daniel John Martin with Mick Shoulder’s Swing Mano...
- Preview - SSBB & Scarlet Street @ Hoochie Coochie ...
- CD Review: Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent - Songbook
- CD Review: Colin Steele Quintet – Even in the Dark...
- Paul Edis and Alyn Shipton at Sage Gateshead
- CD Review: Club d'Elf - Live @ Club Helsinki
- More Gypsy Jazz on the Horizon
- Daniel John Martin avec Mick Shoulder's Swing Mano...
- Lack of Afro @ Hoochie Coochie – March 10.
- Help wanted.
- CD Review: Josephine Davies – Satori
- CD Review: Jam Experiment – Jam Experiment
- Vyamnikal @ The Egdirb (Bridge) March 12
- CD Review: Jason Anick & Jason Yeager - United
- Jazz Café Hot Club Virtuosi
- Dazzling Duets - on now (8pm) BBC 4
- CD Review:Barb Jungr - Every Grain Of Sand 15th an...
- LP Review: Tubby Hayes Quintet - Modes and Blues
- Chris Sharkey Trio Minus 1 @ Jazz Café - March 7
- Riviera Quartet @ The Globe Jazz Bar - March 9
- Gerry Richardson Quartet @ Jazz Café. March 9
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival @ Park View Com...
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival @ Park View Com...
- Paul Skerritt Band @ Ashington Jazz Club - March 8
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival @ Park View Com...
- Quantum Illusion/Chris Cundy @ The Bridge Hotel, N...
- Jazz Café Jam Session - March 7
- Nina Simone’s Life Story on Radio 4
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival @ Park View Com...
- Hot Club du Nord @ Jazz Café - March 3
- RIP Misha Mengelberg
- CD Review: Jeff Rupert & Richard Drexler - Imagina...
- Blind Monk Trio @ The Globe March 4
- Tonight @ The Red House Farm Pub & Restaurant
- Dean Stockdale to open the 2017 season at the Blac...
- Flying Machines @ The Jazz Cafe February 28
- Paris Blues - mes excuses pour ce soir
- Guitarist goes it alone in Eyemouth
- CD Review: Ralph Towner - My Foolish Heart
-
▼
March
(
75
)
3 comments :
About thirty years ago, Different struck up a conversation with me on a coach coming back from London. I know he was called Different cos he kept saying 'I'm Different'.
He'd been to Knebworth which was the nearest equivalent to Glastonbury at the time and, no disrespect to Cliff and his fans, but he felt he was out of place amongst the gods of rock Clapton, Phil Collins and Paul McCartney. No disrespect to Sir Eric, Phil and Sir Paul but, excepting the late sixties, early seventies and about four minutes in 1966 respectively, I felt Sir Cliff was in precisely the correct company.
When he asked why I'd been to London I told him I'd been to see the Ojays, who he'd never heard of, despite four of five sizeable UK hits in the preceding decade and a half. A soul group I advised him. Phil Collins did some soul he said no he didn't I didn't waste my time.
He told me his name again and I often wonder if he ever spotted any irony, or whether he shops at M and S or Waitrose.
Nothing wrong with shopping at M & S or Waitrose. Nothing wrong with being a Radio 3 listener. I agree with Russell that there may be a big overlap (think Venn diagrams) between these three groups - and told Russell so in person yesterday. I think you may also find that the average punter attending jazz gigs in the UK will fit into at least one of the circles in this triumvirate of associations!
I wish I could afford to shop at M+S, Whenever I'm in the Toon I always get some caviar from Waitrose, but only the cheap stuff. I'm afraid my default in the car is Radio 2 but with dozens, probably now hundreds of CDs unplayed, I never listen for long.
I do think there's a certain irony in the BBC, the most powerful Ideological State Apparatus in the Land, who spend millions of our money telling us what to think, within narrow parameters with a tiny bit of hegemony, put on an event about free thinking.
However, anything that invokes discussion must be a good thing.
Post a Comment