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January
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February
Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 01: Moonlight Serenade Orchestra UK: Glenn Miller & Big Band Spectacular @ Darlington Hippodrome. 7:30pm.
Thu 02: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 02: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £1.00. All welcome.
Thu 02: Paul Skerritt Duo @ Tomahawk Steakhouse, High St., Yarm. 8:00pm.
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm. Guests: Dave Archbold (keys); Josh Bentham (tenor sax); Donna Hewwitt (alto sax); Adrian Beadnell (bass).
Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 03: Dilutey Juice @ Bobik's, Punch Bowl, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 03: Smoove & Turrell @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £25.00.
Fri 03: TBA @ Prohibiton Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club.
Sat 04: Alligator Gumbo @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 04: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: John Pope - Up Your Rhythm Game. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 04: King Bees @ Grainger Market, Newcastle. 6:30pm (doors). Live music, comedy, DJs, food stalls. £10.00. advance, £15.00. on the door. Blues band King Bees on stage 9:45-11:15pm. A Great Market Caper event.
Sat 04: Jives Aces @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm.
Sat 04: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Sat 04: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sun 05 Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay. 12 noon.
Sun 05: Rivkala @ Cumberland Arms, Newcastle. 6:00pm.
Sun 05: Jive Aces @ Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 05: Dale Storr @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 05: Jam No.13 @ Fabio's, Saddler St., Durham. Free. Durham University Jazz Society jam session. All welcome (students & non-students alike).
Mon 06: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
CD Review: Tomoko Omura - Post Bop Gypsies
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
CD Review: Tommy Smith Quartet - Embodying the Light
Monday, May 29, 2017
CD Review: Talinka (Fanfare FJ1701)
NCRO Tickets now on sale

CD Review: Matt Chandler - Astrometrics.

(Review by Lance).
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Jazz Night @ Jesmond Library - May 27
Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Ushaw - May 26
Paul Wilkinson @ St Nicholas Cathedral - May 26
Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Millstone - May 25
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Lindsay Hannon & Bradley Johnston @ Vicolo - May 26

Ruth Lambert Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 26
Jazz Loses a Stalwart - R.I.P. Margaret Barnes
Friday, May 26, 2017
Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone - May 25
Thursday, May 25, 2017
CD Review: NYSQ - Sleight of Hand
Talinka @ St Ives Jazz Club - May 23

Wednesday, May 24, 2017
CD Review:: Elijah Rock - Gershwin for My Soul

Thursday 25th MAY 10.15pm (GMT) BUDDY RICH BIG BAND LIVESTREAM
Zoë Gilby: Pannonica @ The Fox Inn, Hexham - May 23
Durham City Jazz Festival - Details announced
CD Review: New Simplicity Trio - Common Spaces
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
RIP Mickey Roker
Maine Street Jazzmen @ Seaton Sluice Social Club - May 21
Dulcie May Moreno @ The Globe, May 21
Monday, May 22, 2017
London Vocal Project - Jon Hendricks’s Miles Ahead (Kings Place, London N1), Sunday May 21
CD Review: VEIN - The Chamber Music Effect
Alter Ego @ Blaydon Jazz Club - May 21
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Johnny Hunter Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 19
Saturday, May 20, 2017
If Only the number 27 stopped on Park Avenue ...
Lance.
http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/daryl-sherman-trio-2
Discover Your Alter Ego at Blaydon Jazz Club

Russell.
Newcastle Grainger Market Late Shows - May 20
CD Review: Tom Syson Sextet - Green.

Friday, May 19, 2017
Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle - May 19
Frankly Sinatra - Stephen Triffitt @ Sage Gateshead, May 18.

Strictly Smokin' Big Band at Ushaw College - Friday 26th May 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Lickety Split @ The Globe, Newcastle - May 18
JNE: Early Nite + Pete Tantons’ Riviera Quartet @ the Bridge Hotel, Newcastle May 14
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Cookin’ @ The Jazz Café - May 16

Tuesday, May 16, 2017
DJAZZ : The Durham City Jazz Festival Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th June
Monday, May 15, 2017
CD Review: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
The Jazztones @ The Quakerhouse, Darlington - May14

Sunday, May 14, 2017
Philonious Funk @ Jesmond Library - May 13
Sue Ferris @ Opus 4, Traveller's Rest, Darlington - May 12
BLT on video
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Joy Ellis Quartet @ The Jazz Café - May12
CD Review: Polly Gibbons - Is It Me...?

Paul Taylor @ St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle - May 12

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- CD Review: Tomoko Omura - Post Bop Gypsies
- CD Review: Tommy Smith Quartet - Embodying the Light
- CD Review: Talinka (Fanfare FJ1701)
- NCRO Tickets now on sale
- CD Review: Matt Chandler - Astrometrics.
- Jazz Night @ Jesmond Library - May 27
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Ushaw - May 26
- Paul Wilkinson @ St Nicholas Cathedral - May 26
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Millstone - May 25
- Lindsay Hannon & Bradley Johnston @ Vicolo - May 26
- Ruth Lambert Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 26
- Jazz Loses a Stalwart - R.I.P. Margaret Barnes
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone - May 25
- CD Review: NYSQ - Sleight of Hand
- Talinka @ St Ives Jazz Club - May 23
- CD Review:: Elijah Rock - Gershwin for My Soul
- Thursday 25th MAY 10.15pm (GMT) BUDDY RICH BIG BAN...
- Zoë Gilby: Pannonica @ The Fox Inn, Hexham - May 23
- Durham City Jazz Festival - Details announced
- CD Review: New Simplicity Trio - Common Spaces
- RIP Mickey Roker
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Seaton Sluice Social Club -...
- Dulcie May Moreno @ The Globe, May 21
- London Vocal Project - Jon Hendricks’s Miles Ahead...
- CD Review: VEIN - The Chamber Music Effect
- Alter Ego @ Blaydon Jazz Club - May 21
- Johnny Hunter Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 19
- If Only the number 27 stopped on Park Avenue ...
- Discover Your Alter Ego at Blaydon Jazz Club
- Newcastle Grainger Market Late Shows - May 20
- CD Review: Tom Syson Sextet - Green.
- Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle - ...
- Frankly Sinatra - Stephen Triffitt @ Sage Gateshea...
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band at Ushaw College - Frida...
- Lickety Split @ The Globe, Newcastle - May 18
- JNE: Early Nite + Pete Tantons’ Riviera Quartet @ ...
- Cookin’ @ The Jazz Café - May 16
- DJAZZ : The Durham City Jazz Festival Friday 2nd –...
- CD Review: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
- The Jazztones @ The Quakerhouse, Darlington - May14
- Philonious Funk @ Jesmond Library - May 13
- Sue Ferris @ Opus 4, Traveller's Rest, Darlington ...
- BLT on video
- Joy Ellis Quartet @ The Jazz Café - May12
- CD Review: Polly Gibbons - Is It Me...?
- Paul Taylor @ St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle - M...
- BABMUS @ The Jazz Café - May 11
- Last night at the Globe
- Look! The Broken Doll! The Globe!
- Visual Jazz – Gina Southgate Exhibition @ the Gall...
- Led Bib @ the Bridge Hotel May 5
- CD Review: George Colligan - More Powerful
- Keep an eye out for the Miriam Ast Quintet
- Snarky Puppy/House of Waters @ Sage Gateshead, May 3
- Denys Baptiste's The Late Trane @ Pizza Express St...
- Arun Ghosh @ Family Tent, Cheltenham Jazz Festival...
- Paul Edis Sextet @ the Jazz Café - May 5
- An Evening with Lin Lee Wong @ The Cherry Tree - M...
- From Cullercoats to Copacabana - The Gala Big Band...
- Friday Night is Music Night
- Yazz Ahmed Halfla Band @ Parabola Arts Centre, Che...
- Chris Potter Quartet @ Pizza Express Stage, Chelte...
- International Jazz Day @ The Globe - April 30
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Dave O’Higgins @ The Maj...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Jazz comes to the Quaker...
- Chick Corea Trio @ Big Top, Cheltenham Jazz Festiv...
- Meshell Ndegeocello @ Pizza Express Stage, Chelten...
- Sleepthief @ Sage Gateshead - April 29
- Jazz Café Jam Session - May 2.
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Matt Roberts Sextet @ Vo...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Locomotive Rhythm & the ...
- CD Review: Chris Potter - The Dreamer is the Dream.
- The New Century Ragtime Orchestra - Summer Concert...
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