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 ...
April
Fri 19: Cia Tomasso @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. ‘Cia Tomasso sings Billie Holiday’. SOLD OUT!
Fri 19: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 19: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 19: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 19: Tweed River Jazz Band @ The Radio Rooms, Berwick. 7:00pm (doors). £5.00.
Fri 19: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Fri 19: Levitation Orchestra + Nauta @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £11.00.
Fri 19: Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 8:00pm. ‘Ella & Ellington’.
Sat 20: Record Store Day…at a store near you!
Sat 20: Bright Street Band @ Washington Arts Centre. 6:30pm. Swing dance taster session (6:30pm) followed by Bright Street Big Band (7:30pm). £12.00.
Sat 20: Michael Woods @ Victoria Tunnel, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Acoustic blues.
Sat 20: Rendezvous Jazz @ St Andrew’s Church, Monkseaton. 7:30pm. £10.00. (inc. a drink on arrival).
Sun 21: Jamie Toms Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 21: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 21: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Holy Grale, Durham. 5:00pm.
Sun 21: The Jazz Defenders @ Cluny 2. Doors 6:00pm. £15.00.
Sun 21: Edgar Rubenis @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Blues & ragtime guitar.
Sun 21: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 21: Art Themen with the Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. +bf. JNE. SOLD OUT!
Mon 22: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 23: Vieux Carre Hot 4 @ Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval. 12:30-3:30pm. £12.00. ‘St George’s Day Afternoon Tea’. Gig with ‘Lashings of Victoria Sponge Cake, along with sandwiches & scones’.
Tue 23: Jalen Ngonda @ Newcastle University Students’ Union. POSTPONED!
Wed 24: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 24: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 24: Sinatra: Raw @ Darlington Hippodrome. 7:30pm. Richard Shelton.
Wed 24: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 24: Death Trap @ Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Rambert Dance Co. Two pieces inc. Goat (inspired by the music of Nina Simone) with on-stage musicians.
Thu 25: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 25: Jim Jams @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Jim Jams’ funk collective.
Thu 25: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 25: Death Trap @ Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Rambert Dance Co. Two pieces inc. Goat (inspired by the music of Nina Simone) with on-stage musicians.
Thu 25: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm.
Thu 25: Kate O’Neill, Alan Law & Paul Grainger @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 25: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Richie Emmerson (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Garry Hadfield (keys).
Thursday, August 09, 2018
Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - August 8
Blog Archive
-
▼
2018
(
950
)
-
▼
August
(
71
)
- 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...
-
▼
August
(
71
)
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.
Post a Comment