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September
Thu 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.
Thu 12: The Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Pete Tanton & co.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Donna Hewitt, Bill Watson, Dave Archbold, Adrian Beadnell, Mark Hawkins.
Fri 13: Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Two pianos, two pianists! SOLD OUT!
Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Dilutey Juice @ Old Coal Yard, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £11.00. adv..
Fri 13: Ray Stubbs R & B All-stars @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Classic blues.
Sat 14: Jeff Barnhart’s Silent Film Fest @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 14: Customs House Big Band w. Ruth Lambert @ St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Gardens, Spennymoor DL16 7LR. 7:00pm (6:45pm doors). Tickets £10.00. from the venue or tel: 01388 813404. A ‘BYOB’ event.
Sat 14: Emma Wilson @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. £12.00. Acoustic blues.
Sat 14: Rat Pack - Swingin’ at the Sands @ Billingham Forum. 7:30pm.
Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Jude Murphy, Steve Chambers & Sid White @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 15: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Panharmonia @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 16: Swing Manouche @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 16: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: John Hallam with the James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00. A Blaydon Jazz Club 40th anniversary concert!
Tue 17: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval. 12:30pm. £13.00. Tel: 0191 237 3697. ‘Indian Summer Afternoon Tea’.
Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Joe Steels (guitar); Paul Grainger (double bass); Abbie Finn (drums).
Wed 18: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 18: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 18: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 18: Hot Club of Heaton @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘third Wednesday in the month’ session.
14 comments :
Mike Carr's Blue Note Band played a cracking gig at Newcastle's Corner House Hotel in 2003. If memory serves, the (then young) Fishwick twins were in the band. In their own way the Fishwicks have kept Carr's flame burning.
Sad news, Lance. I saw Mike Carr backing Coleman Hawkins at the Connaught Hall in Blackett Street in 1967 when I was 14 - a seminal night in my life as a jazz musician, as you can imagine. He and Tony Crombie played the first set as an organ and drums duo, then Mike switched to piano to back Hawk, with Dave Green added on string bass. Almost 50 years ago now, but I still remember it clearly. A great musician.
You and me both, Steve.
I too remember the concert well. Hawkins looked very frail but blew almost nonstop even for piano and bass solos. It was in the early days of JNE and in what seemed a very short space of time we saw Earl Hines, Hawkins, Ben Webster, Ed Hall, Bill Coleman, Rex Stewart, Johnny Griffin and all at the Connaught... we didn't know how privileged we were!
I saw him when I was about 16 at a club in Ashington with Ronnie Scott & a fantastic drummer called Bobby Gean.... It was a storming gig !... An absolute legend ! RIP
Oh no! was just talking about him yesterday
Mike was the swingingest piano player I ever had the honour and pleasure to play with when arrived aged 15/16 from Redcar and adn joined the King's College Modern Jazz group with his brother Ian. I was greatly saddened by the news of his passing. He will certainly not be forgotten.
I got to know Mike in the 70's,and went to his gigs around Newcastle, Gosforth,etc, Alnwick jazz club with Ronnie Scott, I always ended up helping to carry the Hammond in and out of the venue but did not mind, He was without doubt my no 1 organist,and a nice guy So sad to hear this news.
I remember sitting having a drink in the Gosforth hotel with Mike, Bobby, and Gary Cox who was standing in at short notice for Ronnie Scott,and they were trying to sort out a set list for the gig at Gosforth Civic hall they kept changing their minds, about what to play, but boy when they went on it was stunning!!, what a show!!.
Very saddened to read of the death of Mike. Back in the 1950s I used to take a snare drum to his (parents) house on Gosforth high street for a"knock", It was there one evening that Ian arrived having just bought a trumpet ! RIP Mike one of the greats !
Very sad news. Yes Lance, I too (as a teenager!) was at that amazing gig at the County Hotel in 1973 or 74 - the Ronnie Scott Trio augmented by Gary Cox. I remember having a drink in the downstairs bar before the gig with North-East bass player Dave Murphy (can't remember whether he was playing in Ronnie's band or in the support group) and the amazing drummer, Bobby Gein. I remember Ronnie Scott introducing Bobby to the audience as "coming from South Africa, which is a very good place to come from!" I was also lucky to be at the gig in the Ashington jazz club, mentioned by Mal, above. I was driven there by my old friend and mentor, the late Nigel Stanger, following a Sunday lunchtime session with the Newcastle Big Band. And I recall another gig by the same trio, round the same time, at the University Theatre. They were obviously a very busy touring band in the 70s and Mike Carr's amazing playing made it all swing incredibly!
The gig was in the 60s/70s? Ashington Jazz Club stalwarts recall it was at the Cellar Club (Still in existence as Bubbles) The line up was Mike Carr, Ronnie Scott and we all think Martin Drew on drums
There were few, if any, Hammond players who could swing like Mike and offer a completely natural musical experience without any attempts to be flash or clever. He felt the music as it was and played it from the heart. Both Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson said that they thought he was "one of the best". Mikes ability on pedals was unsurpassed even by the likes of Jimmy Smith. In addition to the Hammond, Mike was one of the premier Vibes Players in jazz. Again a natural player who played with sensibility and feeling. He deserved much more recognition for his playing but his modesty meant he never really pushed it. He wrote an enormous number of compositions which he often ran by me singing the lyrics himself. He had a really good voice but never sang in public usually hiring vocalists to sing in his place. I feel, to this day, like so many of his great contemporaries, he deserved better recognition.
Mike never lost his love for 'Tyneside' and his connections to so many of his early sidemen there, before coming south to further his career.
Mike was generous to a tee, often much more than he should have been. Despite the difficulties of bringing up two youngsters on his own, they always came first before work, his bubbly happy personality came out. Mike often, quietly, played gigs without taking money when he felt the fee was too low for the other guys in the band.
A really great, unsung musician, father and all round 'human being'.
Sadtofind this out over 3 years later. I bought Mike's Fender Rhodes off him about 15 years ago and he was a sweet guy and a great player. He gave me a copy of his EmCee 5 LP which is on the turntable right now.
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