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July
Sat 27: BBC Proms: BBC Introducing stage @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 12 noon. Free. Line-up inc. Nu Groove (2:00pm); Abbie Finn Trio (2:50pm); Dilutey Juice (3:50pm); SwanNek (5:00pm); Rivkala (6:00pm).
Sat 27: Nomade Swing Trio @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 27: Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sat 27: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sat 27: Theon Cross + Knats @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 10:00pm. £22.00. BBC Proms: BBC Introducing Stage (Sage Two). A late night gig.
Sun 28: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm.
Sun 28: Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band @ Fonteyn Ballroom, Dunelm House (Durham Students’ Union), Durham. 2:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sun 28: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Nomade Swing Trio @ Red Lion, Alnmouth. 4:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 28: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 28: Milne Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Mon 29: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 30: ???
Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
August
Thu 01: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00.
Thu 01: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 01: Elsadie & the Bobcats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 02: Mainly Two @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free (donations). SOLD OUT!
Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Pete Tanton’s Chet Set @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. POSTPONED!
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - August 8
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- Classic Swing @ Tynemouth Station - August 31
- Gerry R & the E-Types play Booker T & the MGs @ Ho...
- Mark Williams & Joel Byrne-McCullough @ The Dun Co...
- CD Review: Samuel Martinelli - Crossing Paths
- RIP Jimmy Wilkins.
- Preview: Gerry R & The E Types @ Hoochie Coochie -...
- CD Review (kind of): Vince Bell - Ojo
- Village Jazz Festival 30 Aug-2 Sept 2018 Chapel Al...
- RIP Jack Costanzo.
- Alan Barnes w. SSBB @ Ushaw, Durham - August 26
- In Other Words & BABA @ Ushaw, Durham - August 26
- Ushaw Ensemble @ Ushaw, Durham - August 26
- Fever: Jo Harrop sings Peggy Lee @ Ushaw, Durham -...
- RIP Chris de Saram
- Giles Strong/Roly Veitch Jazz Guitar Duo & Tulip/M...
- Graeme Wilson Quartet @ Ushaw, Durham - August 25
- Nicola Farnon Trio & Early Bird Big Band @ Ushaw, ...
- Virtuoso Jazz Trio @ The Gala, Durham - August 24
- Stormzy’s Glasto headliner odds tumble after Insta...
- Jam session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - August 22
- Preview: Ushaw Jazz Festival (August 24-26)
- CD Review: Bratislava Serenaders - I Like That
- Jam Session @ The Jazz Café - August 21
- CD Review: Solon McDade - Murals
- Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Blaydon Jazz Club - August 19
- Gala Big Band @ Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art...
- CD Review: Sara Dowling - Two Sides of Sara
- Kinesis + Abbie Finn Trio @ The Globe Jazz Bar, Ne...
- Preview: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blayd...
- Preview: Ushaw Extra! (August 24-26)
- Women Play Jazz! Workshops @ The Globe
- CD Review: Enrico Pieranunzi & Thomas Fonnesbæk - ...
- Gerry Richardson Trio @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall ...
- Saltburn Update
- Gig cancelled!
- Book Review: Edward Allan Faine - Serendipity Doo-...
- Stop Press: New York All-Stars UK/European Tour
- More on Aretha (1942 - 2018)
- RIP Aretha
- Preview: Kinesis + Abbie Finn Trio @ The Newcastle...
- To clap or not to clap? That is the question
- Stu Collingwood-Russ Morgan Organ Duo @ Dun Cow, J...
- Lickety Split to Take it to the Bridge @ the Globe.
- Women Jazz Workshops @ the Globe
- CD Review: Maurice Frank - Mad Romance And Love
- CD Review: Stéphane Spira - New Playground
- Classic Swing @ The Ship, Monkseaton - August 14
- CD Review: New York All-Stars - Burnin' in London.
- Preview: Indigo Voices @ The Globe: August 16
- Is Graeme Souness Miles Behind?
- North4Jazz @ The Globe Jazz Bar, Newcastle - Augus...
- Jazz Social @ Charts - August 12
- CD Review: Wayne Shorter - Emanon
- Charts - hoping to be no. 1
- LP Review: Thelonious Monk - MØNK
- For Louis Armstrong’s birthday we tune in to “Tige...
- Anth Purdy's Swing Jazz Guitar Show @ Dormans Jazz...
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - August 8
- Jazz Co-op Weekend Workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle...
- Jazz Café Jam Session - August 7
- Zakir Hussain, Dave Holland & Chris Potter @ Edinb...
- CD Review: John Bailey - Oneiric Sounds
- Jam today, jam tomorrow and jam the day after...
- Francis Tulip Quartet @ The Globe & Stu Collingwoo...
- Jude & the Soznak Boys in the Fast Lane - August 5
- 7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest - 3rd Edition
- Vermont Big Band in Cullercoats
- North Berwick Fringe Festival starts today.
- Francis Tulip Quartet to Light Up the Globe
- Meanwhile, Back in Manhattan...
- Those missing comments...
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4 comments :
Wish these were any night but a Wednesday. We missed Deon doing Spain!!!
As a non musician who doesn't really like jam sessions, or for that matter, singers in Jazz (sans Sinatra(sic)(if you think of him as Jazz) and the local ladies (nice recovery?), I really enjoyed it.
More like a gig with guests, it was great to hear Francis and Mathew in more relaxed mode, playing straight stuff straight.
Roberta Flacks Feel Like Makin Love, as interpreted by Benson, was a nice addition.
Sinatra? Jazz? well er yes er maybe er sometimes er... Early days, no. Latter days, no. In between? most definitely yes. Like Billie Holiday, Sinatra didn't have to scat to stamp his individuality on a tune. They both did it by timbre, timing and phrasing. Try singing along with either of them on a tune you think you know well. After 4 bars you discover that you didn't really know the tune at all - a fraction of a beat behind or ahead - they give the song a new dimension that even the composer/lyricist hadn't foreseen. You can sing along with Ella, her jazz chops were in the scatting whereas with Frank and Billie it was the way they transformed the wordsmith's rhymes into some of the greatest romantic poetry ever written.
My own view is that Sinatra was a pop star, but at a time when pop music was based on Jazz, before it was based on rock and roll, which made him the greatest pop star of the century, and it's hard to think of any peers. He towered over the century the way the rock and roll based Beatles towered over sixties pop. The Capital albums, in particular, are amongst the great achievements in music. Sadly, he suffers the same fate as jazz, whereby most people don't feel the need to listen to more than Kind of Blue, most don't get past Songs for Swinging Lovers.
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