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JULY 2025
Wed 16: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 16: Brass Bash @ Willington Town Park, Co. Durham. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Wed 16: Brass Bash @ Market Place, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Wed 16: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 16: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 17: Brass Bash @ Trimdon Community College, Co. Durham. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Thu 17: Brass Bash @ Blackhill & Consett Park, Co. Durham. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Thu 17: NONUNONU @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £11:55 (inc bf).
Fri 18: Greg Abate w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 18: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 18: Brass Bash @ Town Park, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Fri 18: Brass Bash @ North Terrace, Seaham, Co. Durham. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Various bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Fri 18: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Sunderland Minster. 7:30pm.
Fri 18: Knats: Masterclass & jam session @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 18: Rat Pack - Live in Concert @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 18: Greg Abate w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00.
Fri 18: Front Porch Three @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. A Hoodoo Blues dance class & social. Social & Front Porch Three only from 8:30pm. £5.00.
Sat 19: Streets of Brass @ Durham City. From 10:00am. Free. Various street bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 19: Mr Wilson’s Second Liners: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 12 noon. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. SOLD OUT! A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 19: Bollywood Brass Band @ Monument Metro Station & Haymarket Metro Station, Newcastle. 2:00pm & 3:00pm & 4:00pm (3 x 30 mins). Free. A Gem Arts Masala Festival event.
Sat 19: Diddy Sweg: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 2:00pm. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 19: Brazen Brass Band: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 12 noon. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 19: Party in the Park @ Wharton Park, Durham. 5:00-9:00pm. Free. Ten street brass bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 19: Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 19: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 19: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Chopwell Community Centre. 8:00pm.
Sun 20: Streets of Brass @ Durham City. From 11:00am. Free. Various street bands. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 20: Always Drinking Marching Band: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 11:00am. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 20: New York Brass Band: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 1:00pm. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 20: Das Brass: BRASS Boat Cruise @ Elvet Bridge jetty (by the boat club & Tomahawk Steak), Durham City. 3:00pm. £12.00.; £10.00.; £5.00. 60 mins cruise, 2 x sets. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 20: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 20: Pope/Garner/Byrne/Alderson @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE.
Mon 21: Gerry Richardson Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00. at the door; £8.20. (inc £0.20 bf) online, in advance.
Mon 21: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club (1:00pm). Free.
Mon 21: New Century Syncopated Seven @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 22: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm.
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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...
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- CD Review: Chris Potter - The Dreamer is the Dream.
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