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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

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

(Preview by Rob Adams)
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.
Kapok features French horn player Morris Kliphuis, guitarist Timon Koomen and drummer Remco Menting and came together by accident in 2012 when Koomen replaced another guitarist who had dropped out of a studio jam session.
Kliphuis, who is the younger brother of swing and classical violinist Tim Kliphuis, began playing classical music the age of eight but in his teens, he decided to study improvisation instead. When the trio got together, they found they had a natural chemistry that enabled them to create songs that lent themselves to group improvisation. Their first album, Flatlands, launched them on the Dutch scene and soon, having won the European Jazz Competition Award in 2013, they were getting noticed across the continent.
“We were quite surprised when Kapok became a big thing in our lives,” says Kliphuis. “We’d really just got together to jam and out of those days in the studio came Flatlands. From there we were playing not just jazz venues but also indie pop and rock places.”
After three albums they took stock, having become frustrated by the lack of bass and having only one harmony instrument but being keen to keep working as a trio. Menting added vibraphone to his one-of-a-kind drum kit. Kliphuis acquired a synthesiser and Kommen a baritone guitar. The results gave them an almost orchestral palette by comparison to their earlier work. They have since jettisoned the song structures they favoured to begin with for a more freewheeling, collective improvisational style.
“We’re very excited by the sound possibilities and being able to create something new every time we play, and we want that excitement to get across to and involve the audience,” says Kliphuis. “We’ve played at London Jazz Festival but never played outside of London in the UK. So we’re looking forward to finding out how people in the north of England respond to what we do.”
As well as appearing at the Jazz Café, the group plays Whelley Ex-Servicemen’s Club, Wigan (lunchtime) and The Cinnamon Club, Altrincham (evening) on Sunday, 26 November and the Lescar, Sheffield on Wednesday, 29 November.

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