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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".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Monday, September 24, 2018

Jazz in New York: The 1930s @ Cadogan Hall, London - September 22

(Review by Russell)
Earlier in the month, BSH's Editor-in-Chief reviewed Pete Long's Echoes of Ellington Orchestra at Cadogan Hall. On Saturday evening Richard Pite's Jazz Repertory Company once again pulled them in at the Sloane Terrace venue. 

The latest in Pite's successful concert series focussed upon late 1930s' New York. On a rain-lashed evening, Cadogan Hall was all-but-damn-it full to the rafters. Concertgoers travelled from all four corners of the globe to go back in time, a time of financial ruin for many yet a time of release from the miserable years of prohibition. From the opening Benny Goodman Quartet in Hotel Pennsylavnia (1937), to Eddie Condon at Nick's Tavern (1937), through to Fats, Hamp, Billie and Duke's small group RCA Victor sides (1937-1939), and finally Louis' 1938 WNEW radio station jam sessions, Pite's all-star band reimagined historic performances by some of the all-time greats.
Anthony Kerr's vibes were centre stage for the opener - Avalon - followed by an ever-changing star cast; Joan Viskant (Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen), a swinging Condon session (guitarist Spats Langham's piston-like rhythmic pulse), Lee Wiley (Sweet and Lowdown) and Mildred Bailey on studio cuts, bassist Dave Chamberlain switching to guitar to play a Hot Fingers' Eddie Lang-Lonnie Johnson duo with Langham, and, with Martin Litton vacating the piano stool, maestro Keith Nichols took us up to the interval by way of Fats Waller and his Rhythm at the Yacht Club.

Anthony Kerr/Lionel Hampton's Hot Mallets (RCA Victor Studios 1938-1939) resumed matters, something of hors-d'oeuvres to Julia Biel's winning interpretation of Billie Holiday's 1938 Cafe Society dates featuring These Foolish ThingsDon't Be That Way and What a Little Moonlight Can Do

One Steinway, two pianists, Messrs Nichols and Litton had some fun on If Dreams Come True as first Litton, then Nichols (theatrically taking off his jacket and rolling up his sleeves as his 'opponent' set up this friendly cutting contest), edged one another off the piano stool in rotation to dazzle a captivated Cadogan Hall. Huge applause ensued...terrific!

The whole band took on the challenge of Ellington's small group sidemen sessions (Litton as Ellington) with first-rate reeds courtesy of Michael McQuaid and Matthias Seuffert, before it was left to narrator Alyn Shipton to ask the question: What could follow that? And, as the familiar voice from Jazz Record Requests said: Louis Armstrong! This was to be trumpeter Enrico Tomasso's moment. As a young boy, Rico met the by then world-famous Armstrong. Fast forward fifty years or so and Armstrong was once again on stage in London thanks to Rico Tomasso's brilliant musicianship. I Got RhythmThe Blues (vocal choruses from Tomasso, Nichols and trombonist Ian Bateman) and Tiger Rag

A thoroughly deserved encore afforded Alyn Shipton the opportunity to not only introduce the members of the orchestra but to join the fun - playing string bass.

The Jazz Repertory Company's next Cadogan Hall engagement - The World Gone Mad - promises 'Jass, Ragtime, Tin Pan Alley and The Blues' from 1899 to 1919'. The date for your diary - Saturday, November 24. 
Russell.
  
The Jazz Repertory Company: Keith Nichols  (piano, vocals); Martin Litton (piano); Enrico Tomasso (trumpet, vocals); Michael McQuaid (tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet); Matthias Seuffert (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Ian Bateman (trombone, vocals); Anthony Kerr (vibes); Tom 'Spats' Langham (guitar, vocals); Dave Chamberlain (double bass, guitar); Richard Pite (drums); Julia Biel (vocals); Joan Viskant (vocals); Alyn Shipton (narrator, double bass).

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