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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thursday, September 07, 2017

Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club - September 6

Bob Wade (trumpet), Jim McBriarty (clarinet & vocals), Lawrence McBriarty (trombone), Brian Bennett (banjo & vocals), Dave Percy (bass) & Fred Thompson (drums & vocals) + Don Armstrong (clarinet & alto saxophone) & Miles Watson (trumpet & vocals)
(Review by Russell)
Who’s Sorry Now? asked Fred Thompson as the Vieux Carré Jazzmen’s regular Wednesday gig at the coast got under way. The audience a few short on numbers, some, perhaps, still on holiday. The Crescent Club on Cullercoats Bay has been hosting jazz sessions for many a year and for some this lunchtime gig is a fixture – same seat, same beer, same cheese toastie. And now’t wrong with that.
Rosetta, The Lonesome Road with Thompson singing, Bob Wade plungering, and the redoubtable Lawrence McBriarty taking it all in his stride, and, did our trombone veteran fleetingly quote Rockin’ Chair? A rare feature for bandleader Brian Bennett on The World is Waiting for the Sunrise before the first of the day’s guests joined the band. Don Armstrong, on holiday from his home in Australia, made it a clarinet twosome standing alongside Jim McBriarty who took the vocal on It Don’t Mean a Thing.
  
A pint of Allendale’s Pennine Pale at a giveaway £2.60, a packet of salted peanuts, a raffle ticket, a natter, the interval flew by. Musical matters resumed with Jim McBriarty telling us It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie. A second guest stepped up to sing You Always Hurt the One You Love. Miles Watson presented a contrast in styles standing alongside the Vieux Carré’s trumpeter Bob Wade. Runnin’ Wild all but exhausted Watson and he went for a lie down, leaving the stage to Don Armstrong and Fats’ Blue Turning Grey over You. Fred Thompson sang it and the frontline soloed in turn with Armstrong on alto. A favourite swinger – I’ve Got the World on a String – heard from crooner McBriarty sitting on a rainbow. A refreshed Watson rejoined proceedings to sing Baby Face before MC Bennett called time with Goin’ Home. Fans of the Vieux Carré have another opportunity to hear the band at the Black Bull in East Boldon on Tuesday 19 September. It’s the start of a new residency, same format, one o’clock start etc. The Black Bull pub is two minutes’ stroll from East Boldon Metro Station. 
Russell.                        

2 comments :

Miles said...

Brian Bennett sang Baby Face not yous truly. Ta.

Russell said...

Yes, you're right. Unlike the alcohol-free evening gig in Ashington, your reviewer did sample a couple of beers at the Crescent Club so the excuse/reason for this error is...incompetence!

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