Bebop Spoken There

Ludovic Beier (Django Festival Allstars): ''Manouche means 'free man,' and gypsies have been travelers since they migrated west from India to Europe.'' (DownBeat March, 2026)

The Things They Say!

This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)

Postage

18402 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 266 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 31 ), 76

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

From This Moment On

April

Mon 06: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 06: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 07: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, Ferryhill. 7:30pm. Free.
Tue 07: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Ben Lawrence (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Abbie Finn (drums).

Wed 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 08: Jam session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm. Free.
Wed 08: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 08: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 08: Zoë Gilby & Johnny Hunter @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00. JNE.

Thu 09: Tom Remon + Laurence Harrison @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 09: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 09: Michael Littlefield @ The Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Blues.
Thu 09: Jeremy McMurray’s Pocket Jazz Orchestra w. Dan Johnson @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm. £15.00. inc. bf.

Fri 10: John Rowland Trio @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 10: Joe Steels: Celebrating Wes Montgomery @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00. Joe Steels, Dean Stockdale, Mick Shoulder, Abbie Finn.
Fri 10: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 10: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 10: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 10: Gambling Janes @ Warkworth Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £10.00.
Fri 10: Jake Leg Jug Band @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 10: Steve White Trio @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £20.00. + bf. Soul Drum (Acid Jazz Records) album tour.

Sat 11: Paul Skerritt Big Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £26.80.

Sun 12: Swing Social @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12 noon (doors). Admission: Donations (£5.00. - £10.00. suggested). Swing dance taster class, social dancing to Niffi Osiyemi Trio, DJs. Non dancers welcome. A Cluny-Swing Tyne event.
Sun 12: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 12: Trio Grand @ The White Room, Stanley. 6:30-9:30pm. £10.84.
Sun 12: SH#RP Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £7.00.

Saturday, September 01, 2018

CD Review: Lucia Jackson - You And The Night And The Music

Lucia Jackson (vocals); Ron Jackson (guitars, arrangements); Yago Vasquez (piano); Matt Clohesy (bass); Corey Rawls (drums) + Yaacov Mayman (ten sax track 5); Javier Sanchez (bandoneon track 6); Frederika Krier (violin track 6); Dan Garcia (guitars track 7); Samuel Torres (perc track 7).
(Review by Ann Alex).
We never rest at BSH. While some were enjoying themselves at Ushaw, I was at home reviewing CDs. To be truthful, I couldn’t face the journey by public transport, but I’ll walk from Durham City next year if I have to.*
To business.

Lucia Jackson, a native New Yorker who studied dance in Madrid, has also worked as a dancer and model. This, her debut CD, has arrangements by Ron Jackson (her father) of mainly GASbook material some with a Latin twist as well as The Beatles’ And I Love Him, and a number by Ms Jackson herself Feel The Love. Here is yet another fine woman singer with a more than capable band, and we should be glad.

Just One Of Those Things, begins Ms Jackson, clear-voiced vocals and the band are straight in with 4s, followed by a Latinesque Beautiful Love and a song, new to me, called Issues (Julie Michaels): ‘I got issues, you got them too, give them to me and I’ll give mine to you’, lyrically very up to date stuff. And I Love Him is a slow pensive ballad, sung just with guitar, fading out at the end. You and the Night and the Music features a swirling tenor sax, and I’m a Fool to Want you is a tango with a passionate violin and bandoneon (sounds like a smaller accordion) accompaniment. Feel the Love was written for Ms Jackson’s brother, and features flamenco guitar. The final track is When You’re Smiling, a song that our singer associates with her parents, and the only track on which she scats, which she does well. Other tracks are: Sophisticated Lady; No Regrets; Never Let Me Go; I Fall in Love Too Easily and Toda Una Vida.

The CD is released on the Roni Music label on September 14. It appears to be available on the usual online channels such as YouTube.  See www.luciajackson.com
Ann Alex  

*Lance has promised to squeeze me into the car next year!
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