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13,218 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 13 years ago. 637 of them this year alone and, so far, 45 this month (May 11).

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May 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen at The Holystone (Indoors!)
May 20 Maine Street Jazzmen are back at Sunniside Social Club.
May 23: Vieux Carré Hot Four are back at The Spanish City.

June 21: Jazz in the Afternoon are back at Cullercoats Crescent Club. (Revised date).
June 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen are back at Cullercoats Crescent Club. (Revised date).

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Single review - Album to follow: Brian Newman - Sunday in New York

Brian Newman (trumpet/vocal); Steve Kortyka (tenor/flute); Alex Smith (piano/keys); Daniel Foose (bass guitar); Paul Francis (drums/perc.)
(Review by Lance).
Brian Newman hadn't previously registered on my radar although if I'd been following Lady Gaga, as so many of you do, Newman wouldn't have been an unfamiliar name.
La Gaga connection goes back to when he was working as a bartender in a downtown club in NYC (this is the stuff that dreams are made of!) back in 2003 and became friends with the superstar. Move forward in time to 2015 and the Gaga/Tony Bennett Cheek to Cheek tour. Newman was on that and when the duo recorded Lady is a Tramp on the Duets 11album, it was Brian Newman who blew the trumpet solo.

Now, he's signed up to release an album on Verve under his own name and this  audio clip is a very appetising taster.
Uptempo, faster than previous versions, hip vocal, piano keeps the ball in play then, ALAKAZAM! trumpet comes in like Roy Eldridge on a good day which, as us older guys will testify to, is a very good day indeed! tenor blows a 'where have you been all my life' solo and bass and drums round things off nicely for Newman to throw in a few bars vocalese before going to bed. That was quite a Sunday, that Sunday in New York!
Can't wait for the album to be released.
Watch this space!
Lance.
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