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Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

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15478 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 499 of them this year alone and, so far, 120 this month (May 27).

From This Moment On ...

May 2023

Tue 30: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 30: Big Chris Barber Band @ Whitley Bay Playhouse. 7:30pm.

Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

June
Thu 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 01: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Donations.
Thu 01: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 01: Jake Leg Jug Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Thu 01: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 02: Joseph Carville Trio @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 02: Claire Martin & Her Trio @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm. £25.00., £20.00. Feat. Jim Mullen, Alex Garnett & Jeremy Brown.
Fri 02: Guy Davis + Michael Littlefield & Scott Taylor @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. Doors 7:30pm. Blues double bill.
Fri 02: Anders Ingram @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club. Country blues. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sat 03: Newcastle Record Fair @ Northumbria University, Newcastle NE8 8SB. 10:00am-3:00pm. Admission: £2.00.
Sat 03: Pedigree Jazz Band @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 03: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Sue Ferris. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 03: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 04: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 04: Central Bar Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. £5.00. The Central Bar Quintet plays Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus. Featuring Lewis Watson.
Sun 04: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 04: Struggle Buggy + Michael Littlefield @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Acoustic blues.
Sun 04: Swinging at the Cotton Club: Harry Strutters' Hot Rhythm Orchestra @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 04: Richard Jones Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 05: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Preview: Mike Durham’s Classic Jazz Party - October 27-29

(Preview by Russell)
Musicians from Europe and America are currently flying into Newcastle International Airport ahead of Mike Durham’s Classic Jazz Party. This year’s festival of classic era jazz will be staged as usual at the Village Hotel, North Tyneside with no fewer than nine first time participants joining the many established names at the three-day event. The Classic Jazz Party runs from Friday lunchtime (Oct 27) through to the early hours of Monday. Indeed, some of the early arrivals will be taking part in an opening ‘Welcome Concert’ on Thursday evening at ten o’clock. It’s a marathon event and stamina is an essential requirement to see you through three days of non-stop world-class jazz.

Of the nine debutants, four are trumpeters; Manhattan School of Music graduate Mike Davis flies in from NYC, Torstein Kubban and Malo Mazurié arrive from Europe, with Jamie Brownfield flying the British flag. Friday lunchtime will be the first opportunity to hear Davis in ‘The Georgians’ and with a line-up that includes Michael McQuaid making a welcome return to the Classic Jazz Party and USA percussion maestro Josh Duffee in on it this promises to be an early highlight.

Another new name, Ewan Bleach, reeds, leads ‘Bleach’s Buoys’ in a half hour set at 3:30 on Friday afternoon. New Yorker Davis joins him, likewise Martin Litton, piano, Martin Wheatley, guitar, Henri Lemaire, bass and Richard Pite, drums. At four o’clock ‘The Ellington Orchestra 1927’ could be the pick of the day with debuts by Jamie Brownfield and two vocalists; British resident  Chicagoan Joan Viskant and Nicolle Rochelle. 

As well as the influx of national and international musicians, the northeast is also represented by the highly acclaimed jazz violinist Emma Fisk, who appears in a variety of settings, bassist John Carstairs Hallam and brass bassist Phil Richardson.

Saturday (day 2) includes ‘Banjo Eccentricities’ at two o’clock featuring Germany’s tenor banjo star Peter Bayerer accompanied by Classic Jazz Party mainstay Mr Keith Nichols. Later, at four o’clock,  ‘The Early Kirby Band’ is sure to feature Malcolm Sked, with a little help from Duffee, Rochelle, and the brilliant American pianist David Boeddinghaus. The evening session includes a survey of NYC, 1930s to 1950s, in ‘Seuffert’s 52nd Street’ presented by multi-reedman Matthias Seuffert. Expect some ‘modern’ sounds as Seuffert is joined by an all-star band including debutant Malo Mazurié on trumpet.

Day three, bright and early, 12 noon, ‘Four Bright Sparks’ sees John Duffee playing the xylophone! The Classic Jazz Party acquired a suitable instrument for the duration, and our man from Iowa will be playing it at more than one session over the weekend. One o’clock, stand by for some fireworks as Jamie Brownfield takes the part of Jabbo Smith. Keith Nichols directs, David Boeddinghaus is in on it, as is Henri Lemaire, banjo, and 2017 debutant Frenchwoman Elise Sut playing brass bass.

To close the marathon weekend ‘The Nichols-Duffee All-Star Orchestra’ will once again hold court. Suffice to say the line-up is indeed ‘all-star’ and a fitting way in which to bring down the curtain on a Classic Jazz Party of the highest quality.
Russell
For details of ticket availability visit: wbjazzfest@btinternet.com       

       

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