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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!"

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

Sat 23: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Tanfield Railway, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. Free. A '1940s Weekend' event.
Sat 23: Jason Isaacs @ Stack, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free.
Sat 23: Andrew Porritt & Keith Barrett @ Cullercoats Watch House, Front St., Cullercoats NE30 4QB. 7:00pm.
Sat 23: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig. Country blues.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.

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.

Friday, November 09, 2018

An Afternoon in Paris with Kevin Holbrough @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle - Nov. 9

Kevin Holbrough (trombone); Paul Edis (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); Russ Morgan (drums) 
(Review/photos courtesy of Russell).
The Lit & Phil, lunchtime, jazz, a large turn out, what's new? Leeds College of Music Senior Lecturer Kevin Holbrough made the short journey to Tyneside to play a lunchtime gig with the Paul Edis Trio. For this one-off occasion, the concert was billed as the Kevin Holbrough Quartet. 

John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris* eased the Lit & Phil's audience into the one hour set. Trombonist Holbrough had worked as a dep in Edis' ace sextet but this was, likely as not, his first encounter with bassist Andy Champion and drummer Russ Morgan. First impressions? He couldn't have been other than impressed! 

Cole Porter's I Love You featured a superb solo by Andy Champion...nothing new there! In a Sentimental Mood showed what Holbrough could do with the ballad form and in a change of tack, Tom Harrell's April Mist illustrated the Lit & Phil's guest was at home across a breadth of material - GASbook to the more contemporary. 

All the Things You Are is in many a set list and here in Newcastle Holbrough had it in his. Fans of straight-ahead jazz were in their element and a return engagement by Holbrough would surely go down well. Sixty minutes of jazz once a month at the Lit & Phil invariably fly by and there was just time to fit in a brace of tunes by one of Holbrough's heroes. The lecturer and gigging musician spoke of the moment he knew he wanted to play jazz. Playing in South Yorkshire colliery bands he returned home one day and, for the first time, listened to JJ Johnson. That was it, and, as they say, the rest is history. First, Lament followed by In Walked Horace. It had been an excellent afternoon of jazz. 
More photos from Brian Ebbatson.
Russell
Check out Lewis' album Afternoon in Paris with saxophonist Barney Wilen and a rather good jazz guitarist...Monsieur Sacha Distel.            

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