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Bebop Spoken There

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Postage

17562 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 836 of them this year alone and, so far, 74 this month (Nov. 22).

From This Moment On ...

December

Sun 01: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:15pm (12 noon doors). £7.50. Note earlier start.
Sun 01: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 01: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Laurels, Whitley Road, Whitley Bay. 4:00pm. £10.00. SOLD OUT!
Sun 01: Martin Fletcher Band @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 01: Mark Williams Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Album launch gig.
Sun 01: Christmas After Hours @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society event. Six piece band.

Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 02: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137.1:00pm. Free.

Tue 03: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, North St., Ferryhill DL17 8HX. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 03: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, John Hirst.
Tue 03: Bold Big Band @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Wed 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 04: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:30-4:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Wed 04: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 8:00pm. Concert. Free. .
Wed 04: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 04: Kat Eaton @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:15pm. Soulful vocals, excellent band.

Thu 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 05: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘George - named musicians, vocalists & composers (Chisholm, Duke, Lewis, Shearing, Benson, Melly, Gershwin et al)’.
Thu 05: Jools Holland’s R & B Orchestra @ Newcastle City Hall. 7:30pm.
Thu 05: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. Free.
Thu 05: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. Guest band special with the Middlesbrough Jazz and Blues Orchestra 8pm. Free.

Fri 06: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 06: Sue Ferris Quintet @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.

Sat 07: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Hot Club du Nord @ St. Cuthbert’s Church, Shadforth DH6 1LB. Tel: 01429 823400. 7:30pm. £15.00. (inc. refreshments).
Sat 07: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 07: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 7:45-9:45pm. Free.
Sat 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Jam Session @ the Dun Cow, Jesmond - April 11.

(Review by Lance)
As I walked down the not so mean streets of Jesmond I reflected upon past evenings of fine dining and equally fine music at the Cherry Tree Restaurant. Well, the Cherry Tree name is no longer and nor is it a jazz venue but, I'm pleased to report, Jesmond is not without jazz if the Wednesday sessions at the Dun Cow take off. Tonight was the inaugural one, a jam session that, appropriately featured several of the Cherry Tree's regular performers including tonight's house trio i.e. Messrs Edis, Grainger and Morgan who got things going with You'd be so Nice to Come Home to and Toots Thielemans' delightful jazz waltz, Bluesette.
Soon musical instrument cases began to arrive, slung across the broad backs and, sometimes, thick skins of jamming jazzers.

First up were Ray Johnson and Simon Probyn. The flugelhorn/tenor sax duo had form having performed admirably at the Jazz Café jams and, in Johnson's case, at the Take it to the Bridge workshops which also take place on Wednesdays, across town, at The Globe.
Yardbird Suite and Yesterdays came to no harm and the benchmark had been set.
Julija can handle a tune, in fact, she takes it by the scruff of the neck and extracts its very innards leaving singer and audience breathless. Cry me a River and There Will Never be Another You were given the works and the crowd loved it!
Another paint stripper is Paul Ruddick who hit the spot with virile versions of The Night Has a Thousand Eyes and All the Things You Are. Some fancy drumming from Morgan during this set.
Time for youth to take the stand with Early Birders Metcalf and Lawrence on flugel and piano for Stella by Starlight and On Green Dolphin Street. Soon they will be off to uni but not as music students which is a shame. However, I'm sure that when they are not doing whatever they become qualified to do jazz will still be a part of their lives.
More flugel, this time from bossman Graham Hardy in tandem with Stuart Davies on a Gibson 335. Hang on to your Gibsons, they may soon be collector's items. The pair shone incandescently on Work Song and Nostalgia in Times Square. Hardy stayed on board for a flugel/trombone pairing with Chris Gurgi-Smith (on leave from the Customs House Big Band who, incidentally, can be heard on Friday, April 13, at the Everyman Theatre in Spennymoor. Details in RH column.) Gurgi-Smith and Hardy sounded good on So What? (or was it All Blues?) and we look forward to hearing the trombonist again in a small group setting.
Alice Grace, no less, turned up and obliged with a request for A Weaver of Dreams followed by Dindi and Someday my Prince Will Come. The girl did good but, doesn't she always?
There was more to come. I spotted Ben Richardson and Harry Still approaching the starting gate but, alas, three days of GIJF were belatedly catching up with me and I headed home for an early night which doesn't explain why I'm typing this at half an hour past midnight!
Still, it had been a good night. Let's hope future sessions pull in a few more punters other than the musicians.
Next week, Julija returns for a duo set with Alan Law which should be good.
Lance
PS: It goes without saying Edis, Grainger and Morgan did the business.
Paul Edis (piano); Paul Grainger (bass); Russ Morgan (drums) + Ray Johnson (trumpet); Simon Probyn (tenor); Julija Jacenaite (vocal); Paul Ruddick (alto); James Metcalf (flugel); Ben Lawrence (piano); Graham Hardy (flugel); Stuart Davies (guitar); Chris Gurgi-Smith (trombone); Alice Grace (vocals) and ...

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