July
Sun 12: Jazz Stage: Mouth of the Tyne Festival (o/s Tynemouth Priory), Tynemouth. Free. Trilogy of Four (11:00am); River City Jazzmen (12:10pm); Delta Prophets (1:20pm); B.O.C.K.S. Set (2:30pm); Mouth of the Tyne All Stars (3:40pm). Day 2/2.
Sun 12: Phantom Bagman + OUTRI @ The Bandstand, The Sele, Hexham. 12 noon. Free.
Sun 12: 58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00-3:00pm. Free.
Sun 12: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Easington Social Welfare Centre. 2:00-4:00pm. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sun 12: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 12: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Table reservations (0191 261 8000). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Sun 12: Guisborough Big Band @ Zetland Park Methodist Church, Redcar. 2:00-4:00pm. Free. Charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s Society.
Sun 12: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 12: The Bridge Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 13: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 13: Shildon Little Brass Bash @ Locomotion, Shildon. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Mon 13: Quarrington Little Brass Bash @ Quarrington Community Centre. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Tue 14: Vieux Carre Hot 4 @ Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval. 12:30pm. £15.00 (reservations: 0191 237 3697). ‘July Jazz Barbecue!’
Tue 14: Crook Little Brass Bash @ Crook Community Centre. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Tue 14: Barnard Castle Little Brass Bash @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Tue 14: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Tickets from Tully’s, Rothbury. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Tue 14: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 15: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 15: Willington Big Brass Bash @ Town Park, Willington. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Wed 15: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Café Needle’s Eye, Promenade, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea NE64 6XE. 6:00pm. Free. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Wed 15: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 15: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 15: Side Café Orkestar @ The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.00 (£11.00. adv.); £12.00 concs (£8.00. concs adv.).
Thu 16: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 16: Spennymoor Big Brash Bash @ Jubilee Park, Spennymoor. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Thu 16: Coxhoe Little Brass Bash @ Village Green (Pit Wheel). 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Thu 16: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 7:30pm. Free. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Thu 16: Stevie Jay Duo @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free. Julija Jacenaite & Steve Glendinning.
Thu 16: DK Harrell @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £20.00 + bf. USA blues.
Thu 16: Paul Skerritt @ Angels' Share, St George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 2SX. 8:00pm. Free. Booking advised (0191 200 1975). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Fri 17: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 17: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 17: Seaham Big Brass Bash @ Terrace Green, Seaham. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Fri 17: Newton Aycliffe Big Brass Bash @ Town Park, Newton Aycliffe. 6:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Fri 17: Ray Stubbs R&B Allstars @ Billy Bootleggers, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ Sunderland Minster. 7:30pm. Old Black Cat Jazz Club.
Fri 17: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ St Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook. 7:30pm.
Fri 17: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Repas 7 by Night, Berwick. 8:00pm. Free. Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 8:00pm. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
Sat 18: Streets of Brass @ Market Place, Durham City. 10:00am-4:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands.
Sat 18: Brass Boat Cruise @ Boathouse, Elvet Bridge Jetty, Durham City. Departures at 10:30am, 12 noon, 1:30pm, 3:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £5.00 (all prices + bf). Durham Brass Festival. Various bands.
Sat 18: Party in the Park @ Wharton Park, Durham City. 5:00-9:00pm. Free. Durham Brass Festival. Multi-bill of street brass bands. Entrance o/s Durham Railway Station (Northbound platform).
Sat 18: Zoë Gilby & Dean Stockdale @ FIKA Art Gallery, Morpeth. 6:30pm.
Sat 18: Mejedi Owusu w. Francis Tulip Trio @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00-9:00pm. £10.00.
Sat 18: Tyne Valley Big Band + Revolutionaires @ Pelton Community Centre. 7:00pm. A Durham Brass Festival event.
Sat 18: Dale Storr @ The Straw Yard, The Barracks, Berwick. 7:30pm. £15.38. Solo piano.
Sat 18: Nomade Swing: Dos Guitars Trio @ Red Lion Inn, Alnmouth. 8:30pm. Free. Lollo Rosso, Morpeth. 8:00pm. Luco Allievi, Alessandro Brizio, Mariano Gallizio. ‘A Journey Through Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Soul & Pop’.
14 comments :
And they shouldn't let soulies write this stuff either.
Footprints was the main event, with James Metcalf on trumpet,Francis on guitar and Joel Brown on piano. I'm not sure who was drumming at this point. First time I'd heard this lady bass player and thought she was brill, relentlessly holding that bass line and only messing with it slightly towards the end, to great effect.
It seemed it would run and run (and could have from me) until it collapsed into a free jazz blowout, and I can't quite remember who brought it to a close and how.
Out of Nowhere was the official last piece but Joel and Julija risked the wrath of no 1 barmaid (now I'm in trouble) with a brief Feel Like Makin Love, I used to have on one of those big, useless lumps of plastic you dropped a needle on, but now have a much more compact disc where you just press a couple of buttons. I understand you can now hear it by just pressing buttons but you'll likely miss the rest of the album; one of her best.
'lady bass player', 'no 1 barmaid', 'lumps of plastic you dropped a needle on'...Next time we meet Steve we can discuss vinyl (and the stylus!) versus CD. As for 'no 1 barmaid' it will be a treat to see you thrown out next time you visit!
Do you seriously think I haven't heard it all before? I know all the myths, that's why I went to uni, to find out why people believe all the cr^p we get on the telly, in newspapers and mens magazines. Vinyl's fine if you want to buy the odd record, particularly pop records. No good whatsoever when you're buying music every day, and not stuff off the telly - they won't even go through the letter box.
Five years ago nobody gave a flying start about vinyl; just a few dinosaurs who weren't sufficiently interested in music to upgrade their same half dozen records they play over and over. Virtually nobody does now but keep believing the telly. It'll be another format in another five years and people will have to re/replace their old favourites all over again. But we'll still be able to get Kind of Blue, maybe Time Out, maybe Love Supreme.
Lady Bass Player - are you serious? You should maybe check with her before you claim political correctness on her behalf.
And don't be surprised if the lovely Lisa turns up a sense of humour.
I'm glad to say that this has gone way beyond the substance of my original review, and this is what makes this blog so good. Ann Alex
Well, as one who went to that seat of learning - The School of Hard Knocks, where we learned about apostrophes and things, I listen to the music I like irrespective of the format, I even, occasionally, play 78s. It's rather like when stereo first came out and people would listen to a record as if they were watching a tennis match. I'm only interested in the music irrespective of whether the item goes through the letter box or not. Fortunately, we have a postman who knocks on the door when confronted with such a situation. Anyhow, I enjoy listening to both of my LPs and my CD just as I enjoy reading a book rather than one of them Kindle things.
I think I hijacked one of yours before Ann. I do apologise, but you're right, there's nothing like it. The purpose of art is to force people to confront their assumptions and preconceptions. Jazz is a revolutionary art form which doesn't just behave the way it's supposed to.
Well said that lady (oops sorry), and I hope both of your LPs wasn't a Freudian slip. Sadly there's generally no one in my house when the postie arrives so it's a weekly trip to the post office for larger items.
I should perhaps say I had the most enormous vinyl collection but I moved into a nurses home (or is it nursing home, I can never remember) and used cassettes for a few years (also making a comeback - allegedly).
The first time I went on Amazon ssssss was on a nightshift and by morning I had 80 albums in my basket I'd never managed to find on vinyl, some I'd been looking for for 20 years. That's the whole story: not the hissing, the post box and the other impracticalities; CDs and the ability to download on to them means you can have everything, and I want everything.
If that's it I should point out you missed one of mine Lance, or did you not get it. The one about the private joke and the vitrola.
Many years ago I used to debate on the Amazon discussion forum and the classical people were always condescending until one night I took one of them on. We raged through the night and he started telling me I was asking him the wrong questions; you could almost feel him stuttering through his keyboard. About 5.30 he announced he was off to bed. Of course I was on a nightshift.
Funny story. I was at a soulie bash in Durham on saturday. A barmaid had just taken over and had been told to get the manager if she had any concerns at all. A particularly bad vinyl pressing was on at the time and she kept looking at the speaker. I told her it was just the weather outside and not to worry, but she called the manager anyway. True story.
Why do people think the artists wanted all this interference added to their music?
In fairness, hard-core rare soul people don't even know just how poor it sounds, and haven't gone back to vinyl in response to the media dictat, like sixties teenies, seventies rockers and some Jazzwise readers, but never really got into CDs. By the time they overtook vinyl records for availability, the DJs, concerned their hard won trophies were about to become worthless, began boasting that they only played original vinyl. Meanwhile they all made money bringing out CDs and I remember one playing an album version of a track with a seven inch single on the deck.
Soul is having a punkrock period insomuch as the worst record collections at a soul night belong to the DJs, like the musicians were the least talented and musical people at a punkrock gig. Everybody else at the soul night has a bunch of CDs and a computer so they have everything, while the DJs have imposed restrictions on themselves so all they have is half a box of not very good vinyl records.
Just found this thread with the link from "New Comments on Old Posts". I agree with you Ann when you say this type of discussion is one of the joys of this (and other) forums.
Steve, I happen to share your lack of understanding as to why anyone wants to go back to vinyl - for all the reasons you mention. I even have one or two CDs where electronic "crackle" has been added to a track to give it that retro feel - how strange is that?
I have two albums each with one track with added crackle. One is by current soul songstress Angie Stone; the other is by John Legend and samples an old seventies soul record by the Dramatics.
The figures are greatly manipulated; vinyl sales are actually miniscule. I remember Piers Morgan saying a while back we went from vinyl records to downloads. I spend a lot of time in HMVs (waiting for kids) and occasionally somebody looks at them but hardly anybody ever buys one. Mind it's always just the usual rubbish. The sales increased last year but I think it's because a lot of men (sorry ladies) got a player for Xmas in 2016 so have bought bits to play on them. A work colleague bought it all lock stock and, but is drifting back to CDs for practical reasons, like what to play in the car.
I must be unusual as I only hear what I want to hear. I'm oblivious to any snap, crackle and popping. All I'm aware of is the music. It probably comes from living in a house that backs on to the railroad track. Visitors will remark, when a train rumbles by, "How do you put up with the noise?" I shrug and say, "What noise?" I suppose it's the same with records having grown up with shellac and vinyl (and cereal!) As regards playing in the car - my last car only played cassettes (anybody want a couple of 100 cassettes free?)
I agree (I grew up under the viaduct in Durham) but the media message is that people who buy vinyl are somehow more into music than people who buy CDs.
Stuart Nicholson commented in Jazzwise that, to be a true believer, you have to listen to Bluenote on vinyl records, insulting a huge majority of their readers.
I'll swap you my cassettes for yours.
This one could run and run, like the Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead discussions on Amazon which are in their thousands.
On Friday I was in HMV in Darlo (waiting for Mrs T in Primarni) and two young girls came in to look at the vinyls. I wondered if this was the appeal, being able to call them vinyls, a code us old nerds don't use. All myths are constructed in language, not 'reality'.
She headed past the CDs to technology which I always find amusing, but I'm pleased to report she left with two CDs she wouldn't have found or been able to afford on vinyls and, who knows, they may have even been worth listening to.
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