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Sat 10: Miners' Picnic @ Woodhorn, Ashington. Music inc. Northern Monkey Brass Band (3:00-3:50pm); New York Brass Band (4:00-4:55pm).
Sat 10: Jeffrey Hewer @ The Vault, Darlington Covered Market, Darlington. 6:00-8:00pm. Free.
Sat 10: Front Porch Three @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Americana, blues, jazz etc.
Sat 10: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Sun 11: WORKSHOP: Tim Richards' Jazz Piano Workshop @ JG Windows, Newcastle. Time TBC. Further details tel. 0191 232 1356.
Sun 11: Jeremy McMurray's Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Ropner Park, Stockton TS18 4EF. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 11: Groovetrain @ Innisfree Sports & Social Club, Longbenton NE12 8TY. Doors 6:30pm. £15.00 (£7.00. under 16).
Sun 11: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 11: Jam No. 19 @ Fabio's Bar, Saddler Street, Durham. 8:00pm. Free. All welcome. A Durham University Jazz Society event.
Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Tue 13: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 13: Infusion Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:30pm.
Tue 13: Alice Grace & Pawel Jedrzejewski @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv.).
Wed 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 14: NUJO Final Jazz Jam @ Bar Loco, Newcastle. 6:30pm. Free. Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra's final jam session of the academic year. All welcome.
Wed 14: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 14: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 14: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 15: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 15: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 15: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Thu 15: Alexander Ord Trio @ Tynedale Beer & Cider Festival, Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge. Evening, time TBC.
Thu 15: Têtes de Pois + Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. Time TBC.
Thu 15: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Fri 16: Sue Ferris Quintet @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 16: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 16: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 16: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 16: Stu Collingwood @ Baltic, Gateshead. 7:00pm. £15.75. A Let's Caper event featuring exhibitions, food, music etc.
Fri 16: Steve Beresford-Hannah Marshall-John Butcher @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:30pm. JNE promotion.
Fri 16: James Taylor Quartet @ Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Fri 16: Customs House Big Band @ Customs House, South Shields. 7:30pm.
Fri 16: Sue Ferris Quintet @ Traveller's Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm.
Fri 16: New Orleans Brass Band @ Billy Bootlegger's, Arch 2, Stepney Bank, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. NOBB directed by Jason Holcomb.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
RIP Fred Rowe - Gentleman and Trumpet Player

Wednesday, November 29, 2017
CD Review: Seth MacFarlane - In Full Swing

Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Christmas at Gosforth Civic Theatre
CD Review: The Classic Jazz Masters – Jazz Roots: The Sound of New Orleans

Annie Ross on Radio 4
Monday, November 27, 2017
CD Review: Django Bates' Belovèd - The Study of Touch
DUJS Jazz Jam @ Empty Shop - November 26


Darlington Jazz Club Jam Session @ Quakerhouse - November 26


Sunday, November 26, 2017
CD Review: Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway

John McLaughlin and the Fourth Dimension + the James Herring Band, play the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Vic Theatre, Chicago USA, November 18

Duke on Talking Pictures

Lance
Saturday, November 25, 2017
CD Review: Henry Lowther's Still Waters - Can't Believe, Won't Believe

In Other Words @ Tynemouth Station Christmas Market - November 25
Blues and Art of Chicago.
Friday, November 24, 2017
RIP George Avakian

Group Theory @ The Jazz Co-op, The Globe, Newcastle - November 23
The BBC Big Band: Swing Legends @ Middlesbrough Theatre - November 22
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Christian McBride Trio @ Constellation, Chicago, USA, November 17
RIP Jon Hendricks - a vocal icon, very sadly missed.

(Lance remembers)
I remember Jon Hendricks, as I'm sure everyone of a certain age does, from that first multi dubbed Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross' Basie songbook album. LHR was quite an amazing vocal group - I'd never heard anything quite like it - still haven't. Oh, wait a minute, yes I have.
CD Review: Fraser & The Alibis
Idit Shner Quintet plays Eric Dolphy's Far Cry @ Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, USA. November 16
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Thundercat @ O2 Glasgow - November 14

Line-Up Revealed for Gateshead International Jazz Festival 2018


Jam session @ The Jazz Café - November 21
CD Review: The Mark Zaleski Band - Days, Months, Years.
CD Reviews: Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa & Solo Reflections and Meditations on Monk
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The Early Bird Band + Paul Edis @ Blaydon Jazz Club - November 19

Jamie Toms & Lloyd Wright @ The Jazz Café - November 17
RIP Della Reese (1932 - 2017)

Paul Edis @ Jazz café, Newcastle – November 17.
Monday, November 20, 2017
EP Review: Liane Carroll - Liane at Christmas

Marcus Miller + Ashley Henry Trio @ London Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall November 12

Marcus Miller (bass/vocal); Alex Han (alto); Marquis Hill (trumpet); Pasquale Styrizzi (keys); Alex Bailey (drums).
(Review by Jude)
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Funchal Fiesta:CD in the Offing? Paul Edis Sextet @ St. Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook, November 17.

Dee Dee Bridgewater – Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jazz Festival 2017 - November 16

Dutch jazz, French horn, English dates as trio joins Jazz Cafe menu

The unusually configured trio Kapok appears at the Jazz Café in Newcastle for Jazz North East on Tuesday, November 28 as part of a tour presented by the Jazz Promotion Network’s Going Dutch series in tandem with Dutch Performing Arts.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
The Ubiquitous Mr B and the BBC Big Band

Scheduled to be in the reeds section on the evening will be the ubiquitous Mr B, Alan Barnes, who is more often heard in a small group setting, so the chance to hear him with a big band is an opportunity not to be missed.
Barnesy’s busy schedule sees him in the northeast again on Friday December 1st to reprise last year’s immensely successful A Christmas Carol at

Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Mondo Jazz – New International Jazz Radio Program Hosted by Ludovico Granvassu
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Commemorating Dr King
Bill Charlap & Stephen Keogh – ‘Here’s to Louis’ Tribute @ Pizza Express Soho - November 9
Paul Gowland Quartet does Bird and the Noel Dennis Quartet does Miles @ Bridge Hotel, Newcastle, November 12

Monday, November 13, 2017
Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Seven Arts - November 12
An Evening with Pat Metheny @ City Hall, Hull. November 11
Sunday, November 12, 2017
CD Review: Cheryl Bentyne - reArrangements of Shadows

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- RIP Fred Rowe - Gentleman and Trumpet Player
- CD Review: Seth MacFarlane - In Full Swing
- Christmas at Gosforth Civic Theatre
- CD Review: The Classic Jazz Masters – Jazz Roots: ...
- Annie Ross on Radio 4
- CD Review: Django Bates' Belovèd - The Study of Touch
- DUJS Jazz Jam @ Empty Shop - November 26
- Darlington Jazz Club Jam Session @ Quakerhouse - N...
- CD Review: Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
- John McLaughlin and the Fourth Dimension + the Jam...
- Duke on Talking Pictures
- CD Review: Henry Lowther's Still Waters - Can't Be...
- In Other Words @ Tynemouth Station Christmas Marke...
- Blues and Art of Chicago.
- RIP George Avakian
- Group Theory @ The Jazz Co-op, The Globe, Newcastl...
- The BBC Big Band: Swing Legends @ Middlesbrough Th...
- Christian McBride Trio @ Constellation, Chicago, U...
- RIP Jon Hendricks - a vocal icon, very sadly missed.
- CD Review: Fraser & The Alibis
- Idit Shner Quintet plays Eric Dolphy's Far Cry @ F...
- Thundercat @ O2 Glasgow - November 14
- Line-Up Revealed for Gateshead International Jazz ...
- Jam session @ The Jazz Café - November 21
- CD Review: The Mark Zaleski Band - Days, Months, Y...
- CD Reviews: Wadada Leo Smith - Najwa & Solo Refle...
- The Early Bird Band + Paul Edis @ Blaydon Jazz Clu...
- Jamie Toms & Lloyd Wright @ The Jazz Café - Novemb...
- RIP Della Reese (1932 - 2017)
- Paul Edis @ Jazz café, Newcastle – November 17.
- EP Review: Liane Carroll - Liane at Christmas
- Marcus Miller + Ashley Henry Trio @ London Jazz F...
- Funchal Fiesta:CD in the Offing? Paul Edis Sextet ...
- Dee Dee Bridgewater – Cadogan Hall, EFG London Jaz...
- Dutch jazz, French horn, English dates as trio joi...
- The Ubiquitous Mr B and the BBC Big Band
- Mondo Jazz – New International Jazz Radio Program ...
- Commemorating Dr King
- Bill Charlap & Stephen Keogh – ‘Here’s to Louis’ T...
- Paul Gowland Quartet does Bird and the Noel Dennis...
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Seven Arts - November 12
- An Evening with Pat Metheny @ City Hall, Hull. No...
- CD Review: Cheryl Bentyne - reArrangements of Shadows
- A Taste of Teesside
- Tomasz Stanko Quartet and Partikel, EFG London Jaz...
- CD Review: Mônica Vasconcelos - The São Paulo Tapes
- This Sunday (November 12) @ The Millstone
- CD Review: Stacey Kent - I Know I Dream - The Orch...
- 2017 British Jazz Awards - Results Announced
- Jam session @ The Jazz Café - November 7
- Eris 136199 + Inclusive Principle @ The Bridge Hot...
- RIP Frank Holder (1925- 2017)
- CD Review: Alex Weitz - Luma
- Sarah Vaughan @ Sage Gateshead - The Lost Recordings
- Free Soft Machine Legacy Download.
- Jazz Voice – Live Stream Announced - Taking the ev...
- Blaydon News
- CD Review: Sinne Eeg - Dreams
- You push it son, I’ll play it!
- Jazz Poetry - A New Project: Poetry by Keith Armst...
- The Julija Jacenaite Trio @ The Globe: November 4
- CD Review: Roly Veitch - A Canny Tale Crowley's Crew.
- Ushaw Ensemble @ The Jazz Café - October 31. A Jaz...
- Rendezvous Jazz @ St Joseph’s, Birtley - November 2
- CD Review: Bob Mundy - Love to Me
- The Austerity Playbook @ Northern Stage - November 1
- Mike Durham’s Classic Jazz Party - Sunday October 29
- Joy Ellis Quartet @ Empty Shop, Durham - October 29.
- RIP Muhal Richard Abrams
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ The British Legion, Jesmond...
- Mike Durham’s Classic Jazz Party - Saturday Octobe...
- Lindsay Hannon Plus ‘Make Dark Heaven Light’ album...
- Classic Swing Latest
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