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MARCH 2025.
Sat 15: Hot Teapots @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 15: Lagos to Longbenton + Belladonna @ Whitley Bay Big Social, Whitley Road, Whitley Bay. 2:00pm. Free. Afrobeat/jazz fusion + soul/funk/R&B
Sat 15: Creakin’ Bones @ Billy Bootleggers. Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: Is This Jazz? @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk. Performances by Mu Quintet, Jinjé, A Brief Utopia, John Pope & Co + André Marmot (author of Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion) in conversation + DJ sets ‘til 3:00am. ‘A Festival of New Jazz’.
Sat 15: Vintage Explosion @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Sat 15: Alligator Gumbo @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Sat 15: One Night Standards @ The White Room, Stanley. 8:00pm. £8.67 (inc. bf). Note - previously advertised Salty Dogs cancelled.
Sat 15: Howlin’ Mat @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Blues guitar.
Sun 16: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 1:00-2:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 16: Pearl Blossoms @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime.
Sun 16: Hot 8 Brass Band @ Wylam Brewery. 7:30pm. ‘Big Tuba Tour’.
Sun 16: ARQ @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 16: Air4ce @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (8:00pm doors). £12.00.; £10.00. Tom Atkinson’s all-star band (line-up inc. Lindsay Hannon & Sue Ferris).
Sun 16: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 17: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 17: Jamie Toms Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 18: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Laurence Harrison, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.
Tue 18: Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £13.20 & £11.00.. A JNE-Gem Arts co-promotion.
Wed 19: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 19: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 19: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 20: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Nicknames.
Thu 20: Terri Green Experience @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.90.
Thu 20: Lindsay Hannon Trio @ The Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Hannon’s ‘Tom Waits for No Man’ set.
Thu 20: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:30pm. Free.
Fri 21: Paul Skerritt @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 21: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 21: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 21: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 21: Giles Strong Quartet @ 1719, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. CANCELLED!
Fri 21: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Featuring special guest Martin Litton (piano).
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- Hand to Mouth @ The Dun Cow - May 30
- CD Review: Alina Bzhezhinska - Inspiration.
- Historic jazz TV programme recreated for the moder...
- Pete Gilligan Trio @ the Prohibition Bar / Left Ha...
- BSH Interviews Pete Gilligan
- Back in the day...
- BSH Interviews Zoë Gilby
- Radio 3 Hitting the High Notes…again
- Don't forget your bucket and spade!
- CD Review: Richard Shulman Group - Turned Into Lem...
- Stu Collingwood Trio @ The Fire Station, Sunderlan...
- CD Review: Matt Anderson Quartet - Rambling
- Jam Session @ Dun Cow, Jesmond - May 23.
- Remembering Kay Rouselle
- Jazz in the Afternoon @ Cullercoats Crescent Club ...
- CD Review: Jamie Shew - Eyes Wide Open
- RIP Tony Pringle
- Alter Ego @ The Black Bull, Blaydon - May 20
- The Bud Plus: Budtet @ The Globe Jazz Bar - May 20
- CD Review: Mark Kavuma - Kavuma
- Alex Hitchcock Quintet @ the Jazz Café – May 17
- Pianos and how to break ‘em! - Paul Edis Trio @ Us...
- Niffi Osiyemi Trio @ Jazz Café - May 18.
- Ada Francis: Final Year Undergraduate Recital @ Th...
- Dom Pipkin @ The Forum, Darlington - May 17
- Take the B Train
- Gypsy Jazz concerts and masterclass with Daniel Jo...
- Malaby, Bonnet & Darrifourcq @ The Bridge Hotel – ...
- Jazz Café Jam Session - May 15
- Eddie Henderson & his Quartet @ Pizza Express, Soh...
- Preview: DJAZZ: The Durham City Jazz Festival
- CD Review: Beverley Beirne - JJWTHF*
- A Change is Gonna Come
- Deep Cabaret @ Jazz Café - May 11
- CD Review: Glenn Crytzer Orchestra - Ain't it Grand?
- Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The Good, Rick Astley an...
- Tower of Power @ Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Town Ha...
- Joy Ellis Quartet @ The Globe Jazz Bar, Newcastle ...
- Kamasi Washington and the Next Step @ Cheltenham J...
- Paul Taylor (solo piano) @ Gosforth Civic Theatre ...
- Three Piece Suites? Triptych @ Gosforth Civic Thea...
- Omar @ Hoochie Coochie - May 11
- CD Review: John Proulx - Say It
- CD Review: Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet - Brother R...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: A Sunday Summary - May 6
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Alan Barnes with Durham ...
- CD Review: Fred Farell - Distant Song
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - May 9.
- Kansas Smitty's House Band @ Ronnie Scott's - May 7
- Rob Luft @ Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The Daffodil,...
- Christian McBride Big Band @ Cheltenham Jazz Festi...
- Body and Soul @ Dormans Jazz Club Middlesbrough - ...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Jeff Barnhart & John Hal...
- ECM Invasion
- Nigel Kennedy @ Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Town Hal...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Jazz Comes to the Quaker...
- Seun Kuti and the Egypt 80 @ Sage Gateshead May 2.
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Matt Roberts Sextet @ Vo...
- Issie Barratt’s Interchange @ The Parabola Theat...
- CD Review: The Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra - “With...
- Pericopes + 1 @ The Globe Jazz Bar, Newcastle - Ma...
- Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra @ Jesmond Libr...
- CD Review: The Brubeck Brothers - Timeline
- Monday Date cures those Red House Blues
- Alan Barnes & Paul Edis @ the Lit & Phil - May 4
- Binker and Moses: Poetry in Motion @ Sage Gateshea...
- Brass Break Out - Budtet Break In!
- CD Review: Joanne Tatham - The Rings of Saturn
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Darlington Big Band - May 2
- Remi Harris Trio @ The Jazz Café, Newcastle - May 2
- Rock 'n' bankroll... music acts given governmen gr...
- September Song
- The Road to Jazz FM Fifth Annual Awards Ceremony -...
- My Kind of Town
- Jazz Café Jam Session - May 1.
- Edinburgh Festival Program
- International Jazz Day @ The Globe Jazz Bar April ...
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2 comments :
Agree - there's a lot of social history in these sleeves. My collection includes Wiggs (of South Shields) and Savilles (of North + South Shields). One day I might dust off my collection of Les Pauls.
Did you ever notice from the sleeves how many bike shops sold records too?
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