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January 2025
Thu 30: Matters Unknown (aka Jonathan Enser, Nubiyan Twist) + support TBA @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm (7:00pm doors). £12.22 (gig & food); £9:04 (gig only).
Thu 30: Soznak @ The Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 30: Struggle Buggy @ Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Rhythm & blues.
Fri 31: Alan Barnes Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 12 noon-2:00pm (two sets). £12.00. admission (card or cash at the door). Barnes (alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet); Alan Law (piano); Mick Shoulder (double bass); Tim Johnston (drums). Note change of venue, no longer at Mrs M’s as advertised, the concert will be in the Old Library (Bishop Auckland Jazz’s regular venue). Important! It’s a ‘BYOB’ arrangement - ie bring your own booze (and/or tea, coffee, soft drinks).
Fri 31: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 31: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 31: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 31: Café Orkestar @ Café Under the Spire, Gateshead. 6:00pm. ‘Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz, Balkan & More!’.
Fri 31: Nothing in Rambling @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £10.00. + bf. Country blues duo.
Fri 31 Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Wylam Institute. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £15.00. + £1.50. bf.
Fri 31: Creakin’ Bones & the Sunday Dinners @ White Room, Stanley. 7:45pm. £10.00 + bf. Jazz, blues , jump jive, rock ‘n’ roll.
Fri 31: Alan Barnes Quartet @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00 Barnes (alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet); Alan Law (piano); Mick Shoulder (double bass); Tim Johnston (drums).
Fri 31: SwanNek + Rivkala @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 8:00pm. SwanNek’s new single launch gig. Pilgrim, formerly Hoochie Coochie.
Fri 31: King Bees @ Blues Underground; Nelson St., Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free. Superb Chicago blues band.
February 2025
Sat 01: Alan Barnes & John Hallam with the Tom Kincaid Trio @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00.
Sat 01: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Steve Glendinning - Cy Coleman’s Witchcraft. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 01: Darling Dollies @ St George’s Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Vocal trio.
Sat 01: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 01: Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 01: Rockin’ Turner Brothers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Western swing etc.
Sun 02: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm. £7.50.
Sun 02: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00.
Sun 02: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free (donations).
Sun 02: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 02: Spilt Milk @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:15-7:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Sun 02: Jive Aces @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:00pm.
Sun 02: John Pope + Andy Champion + Ian Paterson @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. ‘Subterranean Explorations 1’. Three (half hour) solo bass sets.
Sun 02: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 03: Andy Watt & Dan Rogers @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00. at the door; £8.20. (inc £0.20 bf) online, in advance. Jazz, blues, folk etc.
Mon 03: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 04: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, North St., Ferryhill DL17 8HX. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 04: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Ben Phillips, Paul Grainger, Bailey Rudd.
Tue 04: Dilutey Juice + Life Aquatics Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Wed 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 05: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 05: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Giles Strong & Roly Veitch @ The Beaumont Hotel, Hexham - Nov 19
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- New Spring Season of Jazz Announced @ Sage Gateshead
- Best of the November CDs & Gigs
- Bradley Johnston Trio w. Keith Robinson @ King's H...
- Jam session @ The Dun Cow - Nov 28
- The Manfreds and Georgie Fame @ Sage Gateshead - N...
- Book review: Guy Littler-Jones - Tal Farlow
- EFG London Jazz Festival: Antonio Sànchez @ The Ja...
- Eliot Smith Dance: Triple Bill @ Sage Gateshead - ...
- Terence Blanchard Feat. The E-Collective @ the Jaz...
- CD Review: Aimee Allen - Wings Uncaged
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Nov. 27
- Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Beaumont Hotel, Hexham - N...
- CD Review: Pleasure Mad - Live recordings from Mik...
- Sue Ferris Quintet @ Gala Theatre, Durham - Nov. 23
- CD Review: Helena Kay's KIM Trio - Moon Palace.
- Tonight on BBC4
- Fund Raising Event
- CD Review: Kenny Carr - Departure
- King Bees @ The Collingwood Arms, Jesmond, Newcast...
- Alison Rayner Quintet @ the Globe Jazz Bar, Newcas...
- Tessa Souter in North London next Tuesday
- Harlem Bound with Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton...
- Strictly Smokin' @ The Black Swan - Nov 22
- Radio Pensacola Band @ Prohibition Bar, Gateshead ...
- EFG London Jazz Festival: Stanley Clarke + The Hea...
- George Shovlin and the Acoustic Radars @ Charts, N...
- ‘The Jazz Ambassadors’ Original Score - Digital R...
- The Radio Pensacola Band @ Dormans Jazz Club Middl...
- CD Review: Jake Ehrenreich w. The Roger Kellaway T...
- CD Review: Fred Hersch Trio ’97 @ The Village Vang...
- Book Review: Maxine Gordon - Sophisticated Giant.
- Preview: Dancing trombones @ Sage Gateshead - Nov. 27
- Preview: ARQ @ the Globe Jazz Bar - November 22.
- CD Review: Flavio Lira - Coffee Gold Sugar Cane
- CD Review: Jamil Sheriff - The Ilkley Suite
- Book Review: Anthony M Peterson M.M - Three Master...
- Classic Swing @ The Ship, Monkseaton - Nov. 20
- Giles Strong & Roly Veitch @ The Beaumont Hotel, H...
- The Velvet Revolution + Charlie Collins and Friend...
- Quintet of the Year (2018): Mick Shoulder Quintet ...
- CD Review: Greg Yasinitsky - Yazz Band.
- The Eales' Report from BATH & Opus 4
- CD Review: Square One featuring Andy Middleton - D...
- Preview: Mick Shoulder Quintet @ the Black Bull, B...
- Boys of Brass @ Hoochie Coochie - Nov. 16
- New Jazz Voices @ Newcastle University - Nov 15.
- Hexham Jazz News.
- Alan Glen Trio @ The Globe Jazz Bar - Nov. 15
- Shoeshop Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle Universi...
- The Jazz Lads @ Saltburn Cricket Club - Nov. 9
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow - Nov. 14
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Nov. 13
- CD Review: John Fedchock Quartet - Reminiscence
- CD Review: Lucas Pino’s ‘No Net Nonet’ - That’s A ...
- CD Review: Peter Lin - With Respect
- Jessica Radcliffe - Remembrance - Press release
- The Sun on Danby Gardens by Dr. Keith Armstrong
- Lorraine Baker's Eden - Album Launch Tour @ the Br...
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village Ho...
- New venue for Ashington Jazz Club
- Farewell Blues
- CD Review: Lorraine Baker's - Eden
- Brandee Younger – Live @ Church of Sound, London -...
- Kansas Smitty's House Band @ Sage Gateshead - Nove...
- RIP Sonny Fortune.
- An Afternoon in Paris with Kevin Holbrough @ The ...
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village Ho...
- CD Review: Jazz City UK Volume 2: The Jam Sessions
- Preview: Trombone treat at the Lit & Phil
- CD Review: Kandace Springs - Indigo.
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village Ho...
- Bitches Brew @ The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle – Nov. 4
- Just Friends @ Dormans Jazz Club, Middlesbrough - ...
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village Ho...
- Tony Kofi & The Organisation @ Posk Jazz Café, Lon...
- A Musical Gem On Radio 4: Julius Eastman – November 6
- Soft Machine @ Sage Gateshead - Nov. 6
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village Ho...
- Observations on the 2018 British Jazz Awards
- 2018 British Jazz Awards Results Announced
- Curtis Stigers @ Sage Gateshead - Nov. 5
- CD Review: Sarathy Korwar and the UPAJ Collective ...
- Thank you Steve C.
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party 2018 @ Village H...
- Review: Charkie Parlour @ the Globe - November 1
- RIP Roy Hargrove (1969-2018)
- CD Review: John McLaughlin and the Fourth Dimensi...
- Diane Shaw @ Hoochie Coochie - November 2
- CD Review: Brad Whiteley - Presence
- Classic Jazz Party 2018: Welcome Jam Session - Nov 1
- Tonight @ Hoochie - Diane Shaw
- CD Review: Christopher Hollyday - Telepathy
- Tonight @ The Globe - New jazz quartet featuring N...
- Preview: Soft Machine @ Sage Gateshead - November 6
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4 comments :
Charlie Parker and Miles did a nice version of Don't Blame Me and, vocally, Vic Damone did a job on it in the film "The Strip" which also had the Louis Armstrong All-Stars featured.
There's a great quote in the film by William Demarest to Mickey Rooney: "What good's happiness? it can't buy you money!"
Not many folk know this but Victor Young was staying B&B at the Black Bull, Blaydon. He was sitting out in the beer garden one balmy summer evening enjoying a pint and gazed at the beautiful view up river. It inspired him to compose his masterpiece 'Stella by Starlight'.
Ha! Ha! You need local knowledge to appreciate that one. I always thought it was written by the French composer Artois.
Monk did a great solo version of DBM, full of musical jokes and whole tone scales.
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