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15491 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 512 of them this year alone and, so far, 133 this month (May 31).

From This Moment On ...

June

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.
Sun 04: Jam No. 18 @ Fabio's Bar, Saddler Street, Durham. 8:00pm. Free. All welcome. A Durham University Jazz Society event.

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

Tue 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 06: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Stu Collingwood (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums).

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 08: Easington Colliery Brass Band @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 08: Faye MacCalman + Blue Dust Archive @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Dilutey Juice + Ceramic @ The Ampitheatre, Sea Road, South Shields. 7:00pm. Free. A South Tyneside Festival event.
Thu 08: Lara Jones w. Vigilance State @ Lubber Fiend, Blandford Square, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Michael Littlefield @ the Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Country blues.
Thu 08: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Fri 09: Emma Rawicz @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm.

Saturday, November 04, 2017

CD Review: Roly Veitch - A Canny Tale Crowley's Crew.

Roly Veitch (vocal/guitar/banjo/uke) + Stewart Hardy (fiddle on 6 tracks)
(Review by Lance).
By the time the final track ended I felt as though I'd lived in Blaydon all my life even though, apart from the various pubs and clubs where Blaydon Jazz Club has, over the years, nested and passing through the town en route elsewhere I'd had little or no connection to the place.
Admittedly, I'd had a pint or two in the Crowley Hotel but had had no idea as to the origins of its name.
Until now.
Roly Veitch has removed his jazz hat and replaced it with a cloth cap and muffler (or whatever the working man wore in Blaydon long long ago) to tell us in song and story of his hometown's industrial past.

He does it with so much feeling that I imagined I was on backshift down the pit at Winlaton, working in Crowley's Ironworks or his Brickworks. Maybe smelting lead, having fun at the Winlaton Hoppings, going to the races on Blaydon Island - yes there was an island in the Tyne - fighting the Scots at Stella Haugh, meeting Coffee Johnny who wore a white top hat, shopping at 'The Store' (Coop) or maybe working as a keelman. I have cycled along the Keelman's Way past George Stephenson's Cottage across the river from Blaydon and my own hometown, Hebburn, actually has a Keelman's Way School...
Most of the songs are composed by Roly who sings then with the same laidback, wistful sound he applies to his jazz vocals. Close your eyes and you'd think Chet Baker lived in Blaydon - if he had a Geordie accent that is!
No doubting Roly's accent and yet it's not so pronounced as to be incomprehensible in other parts of the country or, indeed, the English speaking world. Nor is it the pseudo-Geordie accent beloved of TV.
As Roly says, "I'm a Tynesider and proudly must say 'Give me the language that's spoken my way.'

Blaydon has a population of 15,155 which should take care of the first pressing.
Lance.
Special mention of Neil Harland's mixing, Dave Kerr's artwork and (on 6 tracks) Stuart Hardy's fiddle playing.

1 comment :

Lance said...

My Folk Record of the Year.

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