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Bebop Spoken There

Art Blakey: "You [Bobby Watson] don't want to play too long, because you don't know they're clapping because they're glad you finished!" - (JazzTimes, Nov. 2019)..

The Things They Say!

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!"

Postage

15848 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 855 of them this year alone and, so far, 53 this month (Sept. 18).

From This Moment On ...

September

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm.

Tue 26: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.

Wed 27: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 27: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 27: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Alice Grace Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 28: Faye MacCalman + Snape/Sankey @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 28: Zoe Rahman @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 28: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Speakeasy @ Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £15.00. A Southpaw Dance Company presentation. Dance, audio-visuals, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, swing dancers etc.
Thu 28: Mick Cantwell Band @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Ace blues band.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.

Sat 30: John Pope Quintet + Late Girl + Shapeshifters @ Bobik's, Jesmond, Newcastle.
Sat 30: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

OCTOBER

Sun 01: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 01: Dulcie May Moreno sings Portrait of Sheila @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. Moreno sings Sheila Jordan with Giles Strong, Mick Shoulder & John Bradford.
Sun 01: Middlesbrough Jazz & Blues Orchestra @ Saltburn Community Hall. 2:00pm.
Sun 01: The Easy Rollers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.70., £11.55.
Sun 01: Brand/Roberts/Champion/Sanders @ Blank Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sun 01: Papa G's Troves @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 02: FILM: Wattstax; 50th Anniversary @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 8:00pm.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Jam session @ The Dun Cow - Nov 28

(Review by Russell)

Not one but two singing pianists, two guitarists, two bass players (yes, for once Mr PG got the opportunity to go to the bar!), four drummers (two of them Archies), a tenor player, a chromatic harmonica player and a partridge...oops, wrong story, and a chart-topping soul singer - just yer average jam session down at the Dun Cow.

The house trio got things underway with Paul Edis singing I'm Old Fashioned. Don't know about that, but Dr Edis is one hell of an old school (ie great) piano player. Time After TimeAll the Things You Are - the latter featuring Edis' stupendous piano playing - two-handed stuff, Bach-like things going on etc. Quite some start.
Occasional Dun Cow visitor Simon Probyn dropped by early and soon got the nod from MC Paul Grainger. Our tenor man overcame a few early squeaks and squawks due to a misbehaving dry reed to play a satisfying Days of Wine and Roses. Probyn stayed on to play Jerome Kern's Yesterdays accompanied by the ace house trio (Edis, bassist Grainger and drummer Rob Walker).

Blaydon Jazz Club's Roly Veitch, back to gigging on a more regular basis, returned to the Brandling Village jam session to sit in with the trio. Our guitarist called That Old Feeling, or so your correspondent thought. Beautifully played, one wouldn't expect anything else from a GASbook devotee, it was later in the evening that RV enlightened your correspondent...the tune in question was Soon, written by the Gershwins. Alone Together (one of the great titles!) followed, the quartet joined by the returning Probyn to make it a quintet.

From time to time Andrea Harrison gets along to the Dun Cow to sing a couple of soulful numbers alongside guitar-playing sculptor Lisa Delarny. They like to work with Rob Walker, and after a powerful rendition of Nature Boy, RW switched to bass guitar as Archie Brown - yes, Young Buck Archie Brown! - got behind the traps as Harrison belted out What a Difference a Day Makes

One fine pianist - Dr Edis - went to the bar as another fine pianist, Edinburgh-based Martin Waugh, gave him a spell. Nice and Easy did it alright, top stuff. Better still, Waugh, this time supported by another drumming Archie (Newcastle University's Archie Williamson making good use of brushes), sang a marvellous version of You Go to My Head. Jam sessions can be a hit and miss affair, this evening's hit the bull's eye. 

Newcastle University student, guitarist James Cuxson, joined the party, as did jam session debutant Patrick, on drums, to play Ladybird with tenor man Probyn adding his two-penneth. Cuxson and Veitch complimented one another on Out of Nowhere as circling harmonica man Ray Burns jumped in. Tenderly took us up to the bell and as the ailing Paul Grainger blew his nose, Edis' spontaneous call for C Jam Blues ensured a rousing finale.               
Russell

Paul Edis (piano, vocals); Paul Grainger (double bass); Rob Walker (drums, bass guitar) + Simon Probyn (tenor saxophone); Roly Veitch (guitar); Andrea Harrison (vocals); Lisa Delarny (guitar); Archie Brown (drums); Martin Waugh (piano, vocals); Archie Williamson (drums); James Cuxson (guitar); Patrick ? (drums); Ray Burns (harmonica) 

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