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Bebop Spoken There

Brian Dee: "I feel my generation had one advantage over today's players in that we were not musically educated in colleges, so we all sounded different. I could tell who it was just by the sound." - (Jazz Rag, Summer 2020).

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Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

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11,783 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 12 years ago. 1023 of them this year alone and, so far, 50 this month (Sept. 17).

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SEPTEMBER

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SATURDAY

Happy Birthday Katy Trigger & Mia Webb.

SUNDAY 20

Vieux Carre Hot 4 - Spanish City, Spanish City Plaza, Whitley Bay NE26 1BG. Tel: 0191 691 7090. 12 noon. Free.

Riviera Quartet - The Globe, 11 Railway St., Newcastle NE4 7AD. 8:00pm. A limited number of seats are available which MUST be bought in advance online. £7:50 or £5:45 live stream only.

THURSDAY 24

Vieux Carre Jazzmen - The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside NE27 0DA. 0191 266 6173. 1:00pm. Free.

Maine St Jazzmen - Sunniside Social Club, Sunniside Road, Sunniside NE16 5NA. Tel: 0191 488 7347. 8:00pm - 10pm. Free. Note earlier start/finish.

Monday, May 21, 2018

RIP Tony Pringle

John Carstairs Hallam has informed me (via Russell) of the death of Liverpool born/Massachusetts based cornet player Tony Pringle of the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. 
I must confess to being unfamiliar with him. Did he ever play at any of the Whitley Bay Jazz Festivals/Jazz Parties I wonder?
Reading his obituary in the Syncopated Times, which also included his own memories of those early days where he recalls how he got into jazz, I found myself in agreement with him when he wrote that being a jazz fan was like catching an obstinate bug that stays with you forever. 
It didn't matter that his obstinate bug was of the vintage New Orleans variety and mine was hatched on 52nd St. the end result was the same - incurable!
Tony Pringle passed away on May 4, aged 81. and will, I'm sure, be sadly missed by all who knew him.
May he Rest In Peace.
Lance.
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