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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Classic Swing @ The Marquis of Granby - September 25

Bob Wade (trumpet, flugelhorn & clarinet), Jim McBriarty (tenor saxophone, clarinet & vocals), Malcolm Armstrong (keyboards), Alan Rudd (double bass) & Olive Rudd (vocals)
(Review by Russell)
The Marquis of Granby in Sunniside is no stranger to jazz gigs. For a number of years the Maine Street Jazzmen maintained a residency and down the years other bands have come and gone at the Streetgate, Sunniside pub. Across Tyneside weekday lunchtime time sessions are booming – Cullercoats, East Boldon, Monkseaton and now Sunniside in Gateshead.
Northumberland based trumpeter Bob Wade has put together a new band of familiar names with a view to playing a small group swing repertoire rather than the New Orleans/Dixieland book that can be heard at the many fine venues in the region. ‘Classic Swing’ is the name and at this first gig Bob Wade expressed surprise that anyone would turn up to the band’s ‘first rehearsal’. Turn up they did and in good number. Classic Swing’s front line – Wade playing trumpet, flugelhorn and clarinet and Jim McBriarty on tenor sax, clarinet and vocals – enjoy an easy rapport, sharing the solo spots with Malcolm Armstrong, keyboards, and bassist Alan Rudd. The set list was by no means strictly swing material, although, as Wade said, it’ll take time to compile a book giving the band a truly distinctive sound on the local scene. Swing or not, the tunes were just fine – On the Sunny Side (Sunniside?) of the Street, It’s Only a Paper Moon, I’m Beginning to See the Light (McBriarty vocals), Rosetta, a good start to a new residency. Wade played some flugelhorn and, standing alongside the maestro himself, Mr J. McBriarty, clarinet!

Olive Rudd put on her dancin’ shoes and called out Dr Jazz. A trip to the dispensary (the bar) for a medicinal St Austell’s Tribute, a raffle ticket, the Marquis was doing good business. Perdido got the rehearsal’s second set under way, Wade switched to flugel to play Rockin’ Chair, Olive Rudd sang about Sunniside’s Blue Skies, later asking Am I Blue? A two-clarinet Creole Love Call provided an undoubted highlight of the afternoon with the contrasting styles of McBriarty and Wade.

Up tempo numbers kept the punters happy, not least ’S Wonderful (Olive Rudd vocals) and Avalon (McBriarty vocals). Classic Swing made an impressive debut. A band well worth hearing, get along to the Marquis of Granby on a Monday, one o’clock start. A fast, frequent, reliable bus service from Newcastle’s Eldon Square Bus Station drops off outside the pub. If you’re travelling from Consett it is much the same easy-to-get-to journey. So, why not enjoy a pint listening to some top class jazz from Classic Swing?
Russell.            

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