For the past sixteen years we've been updating the world about jazz in the north east of England and updating the north east of England about jazz in the world. WINNER of the Jazz Media Category in the 2018 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Contact lanceliddle@gmail.com
Total Pageviews
Bebop Spoken There
The Things They Say!
Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!
Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"
Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.
Postage
From This Moment On ...
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
Saturday, June 30, 2018
That’s Life - The Frank Sinatra Story @ Whitley Bay Playhouse - June 29
Friday, June 29, 2018
RIP Big Bill Bissonnette
He was 81. May he Rest In Peace.
Obituary.
Lance
Football? What football? The SSBB @ The Millstone - June 28
(Review by Russell)
Air conditioning? What air conditioning? Football? Is there a match on? Manager Southgate made eight changes to the Ingerlund eleven, SSBB MD Lamb made no more than half a dozen changes to the 17. Yes, just the seventeen tonight at the Millstone, band vocalists Alice and F’reez were given the night off so that they could watch the football.
CD Review: John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once. The Lost Album
I was wrong!
Thursday, June 28, 2018
JazzLeeds Festival - July 19-24.
Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - June 27.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Sunderland-bound acid jazz wizards have Toto’s backing
CD Review: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Sweet Sister Suite
66th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll.
CD Review: Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band - West Side Story Reimagined
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
CD Review: Miriam Ast & Victor Gutierrez feat. Stan Sulzmann - Secret Songs
Sand, sea, sun and…jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club - June 25
Monday, June 25, 2018
RIP Bob Bain (1924-2018)
Rest In Peace.
Lance
A Farewell to Dan - Court Inn, Durham - June 24.
Book Review: Andrew Cartmel - Written in Dead Wax
Sunday, June 24, 2018
CD Reviews: Hendrik Meurkens w. Roger Davidson Quartet/Bill Cunliffe.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Things to come...
The Ushaw Ensemble @ The Lit & Phil - June 22
Great Exhibition Of The North Opening Night @ Sage Gateshead - June 22
Jazz Jam @ The Court Inn, Durham.
Friday, June 22, 2018
CD Review: Bob Mintzer Big Band/New York Voices - Meeting of Minds
Jam Session @ The Fire Station, Sunderland - June 21.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
The Danny Allan Band @ Dormans Jazz Club Middlesbrough - June 7
Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord @ Sage Gateshead - June 20.
(Review by Lance/Photo courtesy of Billy Nicholson).
Second set and Venuti/Lang have morphed into Grappelli/Reinhardt. The year is now 1934, Eddie Lang has died tragically young and Fisk has replaced the short, flowing dress with a svelte, champagne coloured, figure-hugging satin dress evocative of a pre-war Parisian nightclub hostess in Pigalle. For his part, Birkett has augmented his apparel with red socks; apparently a Django fashion faux pas in the eyes of Grappelli but hey! this is 1934, the year that Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes.
Emma Fisk & James Birkett Play Venuti & Lang @ Sage Gateshead - June 20.
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Jazz Café Jam Session - June 19
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
CD Review: Nick Costley-White. Detour Ahead
Monday, June 18, 2018
CD Review: Alchemy Sound Project - Adventures in Time and Space
Mark Williams & Joel Byrne-McCullough @ Blaydon Jazz Club - June 17
The Jazz Lads with James Harrison @ Saltburn Golf Club - June 3
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Preview: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe - June 21
Tonight! Great Guitars @ Blaydon Jazz Club
CD Review: Lenore Raphael, Wayne Wilkinson & Chris Hodgkins @ Pizza Express Live, Dean Street, London
Saturday, June 16, 2018
The Early Birds @ The Lit & Phil - June 16
Martin Speake @ Opus 4 Jazz Club, Darlington - June 15
Durham University Big Band @ The Jazz Café - June 15
If I thought the Bold Big Band were loud at the Dun Cow on Tuesday, DUBB, in the Jazz Café's upper room, made them seem like a string quartet. This is no reflection on either band but on the dimensions of the room. The Dun Cow had more space for the sound to travel and the chat level of some of the infidels in the audience also absorbed the band's decibels with a few decibels of their own. At the Caff, the sound was trapped and the audience a more attentive one. The main thing about both gigs was the sight of so many young musicians playing, so brilliantly, the music we love.
CD Review: Gary Brumburgh - Moonlight
Friday, June 15, 2018
CD Review: Rick Simpson - Klammer.
Mark Williams & John Pope @ The Globe Jazz Bar - June 14
Alan Law and Julija Jacenaite @ The Jazz Café - June 14
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Preview: Hot Club du Nord @ Sage Gateshead - June 20
Dun Cow Jam Session - June 13.
It's always a daunting task for anyone to be first to show at a pub jam session. The audience, still sober, are more attentive to the performer than they are later when, in some cases, conversation takes preference.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
CD Review: Mishka Adams & Beto Caletti - Puentes Invisibles
Newcastle University Summer Music Festival - Battle of the Bands @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - June 12
Another Man Done Gone - An appraisal by Ann Alex.
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
RIP Jon Hiseman (1944-2018)
Obituary.
That Was the Week That Was by Ann Alex
This week was one of my favourite weeks of the year and I felt as if I’d been on holiday without ever leaving the area. It was the week of final recitals from the students of the Folk and Traditional Music Degree, which take place at Sage Gateshead. And this year, my week was rounded off by the Djazz Durham Jazz Festival at the weekend, the icing on the cake.
Obviously, I’m not about to give a blow by blow account of the folk music (‘thank goodness’ says Lance), and I’ve accounted for myself at the Djazz already. However, jazz fans will be interested to know of some jazz influences which cropped up at the Sage performances.
I gather that the students on this degree are encouraged to have flexible ideas about their music, so we saw a fiddler who played some gypsy style jazz and a singer who used loops and various electronic devices, and performed a traditional folk song to beat-boxing sounds.
I like to savvy what the band is playing...
The Julija Jacenaite Trio @ The Globe - June 10
RIP Clarence Fountain
Monday, June 11, 2018
Crombie Rides Again!
A private viewing back in 2016 impressed the majority of those invited and filmmaker Abi Lewis has kept us informed as to
what has happened in the meantime ...
New Funding To Support Young Jazz Artists
Blog Archive
-
▼
2018
(
950
)
-
▼
June
(
85
)
- That’s Life - The Frank Sinatra Story @ Whitley Ba...
- RIP Big Bill Bissonnette
- Football? What football? The SSBB @ The Millstone ...
- CD Review: John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once...
- JazzLeeds Festival - July 19-24.
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - June 27.
- Sunderland-bound acid jazz wizards have Toto’s bac...
- CD Review: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Swee...
- 66th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll.
- CD Review: Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band - We...
- CD Review: Miriam Ast & Victor Gutierrez feat. Sta...
- Sand, sea, sun and…jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Clu...
- RIP Bob Bain (1924-2018)
- A Farewell to Dan - Court Inn, Durham - June 24.
- Book Review: Andrew Cartmel - Written in Dead Wax
- CD Reviews: Hendrik Meurkens w. Roger Davidson Qu...
- Things to come...
- The Ushaw Ensemble @ The Lit & Phil - June 22
- Great Exhibition Of The North Opening Night @ Sage...
- Jazz Jam @ The Court Inn, Durham.
- CD Review: Bob Mintzer Big Band/New York Voices - ...
- Jam Session @ The Fire Station, Sunderland - June 21.
- The Danny Allan Band @ Dormans Jazz Club Middlesbr...
- Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord @ Sage Gateshead - Ju...
- Emma Fisk & James Birkett Play Venuti & Lang @ Sag...
- Jazz Café Jam Session - June 19
- CD Review: Nick Costley-White. Detour Ahead
- CD Review: Alchemy Sound Project - Adventures in T...
- Mark Williams & Joel Byrne-McCullough @ Blaydon Ja...
- The Jazz Lads with James Harrison @ Saltburn Golf ...
- Preview: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe - June 21
- Tonight! Great Guitars @ Blaydon Jazz Club
- CD Review: Lenore Raphael, Wayne Wilkinson & Chris...
- The Early Birds @ The Lit & Phil - June 16
- Martin Speake @ Opus 4 Jazz Club, Darlington - Jun...
- Durham University Big Band @ The Jazz Café - June 15
- CD Review: Gary Brumburgh - Moonlight
- CD Review: Rick Simpson - Klammer.
- Mark Williams & John Pope @ The Globe Jazz Bar - J...
- Alan Law and Julija Jacenaite @ The Jazz Café - Ju...
- Preview: Hot Club du Nord @ Sage Gateshead - June 20
- Dun Cow Jam Session - June 13.
- CD Review: Mishka Adams & Beto Caletti - Puentes I...
- Newcastle University Summer Music Festival - Battl...
- Another Man Done Gone - An appraisal by Ann Alex.
- RIP Jon Hiseman (1944-2018)
- That Was the Week That Was by Ann Alex
- I like to savvy what the band is playing...
- The Julija Jacenaite Trio @ The Globe - June 10
- RIP Clarence Fountain
- Crombie Rides Again!
- New Funding To Support Young Jazz Artists
- DJazz reflections...
- Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet
- CD Review: David Ferris Septet - Alphabets.
- And the MD Danced ! The Customs House Big Band wit...
- Java Jive
- Kickin' the Gong Around
- King Bees @ The Magnesia Bank, North Shields - June 8
- RIP Ray Tones
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: DU Jazz Soc ...
- Jam Session at the Fire Station, Sunderland - June 7.
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Haircut, Was...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Fowler’s Yar...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: The Riviera ...
- Out of the Red and into the Black for Vieux Carré ...
- CD Review: Pete Lee - The Velvet Rage.
- Jazz Café Jam Session - June 5.
- CD Review: Julija Jačėnaitė - Moon Moods
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Soweto Kinch...
- Top of the Bops
- Bloggery Blues
- CD Review: Danny Green Trio Plus Strings - One Day...
- DJazz: Durham City Jazz Festival - Bits and Pieces...
- Vibes query
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: TESTT Space ...
- DJazz: Durham City Jazz Festival - Jambone @ Redhi...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival. Francis Tuli...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Paul Edis - ...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Juliane Deil...
- DJazz: The Durham City Jazz Festival: Zoë Gilby & ...
- DJAZZ: Saturday Wet Weather - IMPORTANT change of ...
- DJazz: Juliane Deil Trio & Paul Edis - The Courtya...
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Millstone - May 31
- The Merry Month of May - Choices
-
▼
June
(
85
)