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March
Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).
Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.
Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.
Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Monday, December 10, 2018
RIP BMus @ Sage Gateshead.
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- Jazz in the Afternoon - Crescent Club, Cullercoate...
- Francis Tulip Quartet @ The Globe Jazz Bar - Dec. 30
- CD Review: Simone Kopmajer - Spotlight On Jazz
- Christmas Celebration @ Coventry Cathedral - A Con...
- Preview: Francis Tulip Quartet @ The Globe - Decem...
- New Year Honour for Tommy Smith
- RIP Nipper
- Modern Vintage CDs of the Year
- Mainstream/modern CDs of the Year
- Just in case you missed THE Xmas party...
- Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Spanish City - Dec 26
- Some outstanding, previously unreleased, vintage a...
- How it all began (for me) by Ann Alex
- CD Review: Dan Banks Quintet
- Born This Day
- My Gigs of the Year
- Preview: Friday's a Wonderful Night for a Moondance
- Jingle All the Way…
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie - Dec.23
- A Jazzy Christmas @ Ushaw - Dec. 20
- A Jazzy Christmas: Paul Edis and Friends @ Sage Ga...
- Nu Bossa Band @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 21
- King Bee @ Hoochie Coochie - Dec. 21.
- Bach in Central Arcade - Dec 21
- EXCLUSIVE! - Jimmy McPartland – Chicago Hot Cornet...
- EXCLUSIVE! Coming shortly (later today) Scott Blac...
- CD Review: Jorge Nila - Tenor Time
- CD Review: Dave O'Higgins Trio + Max Ionata - Teno...
- Sparks! Light up Newcastle's Night Sky - Dec 20
- Alice Grace & Ben Helm: A Festive Afternoon Tea @ ...
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen - Christmas Update.
- Preview: A Jazzy Christmas - not once but twice!
- Book Review: Geoff Leonard & Pete Walker - Hit and...
- RIP John Williams
- CDs of the Year - Big Bands.
- Glenn Miller Orchestra @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 17
- Better Late Than Never...
- Chetham's takes to the streets of Newcastle - Dec 17
- Paul Edis Trio: Blaydon Jazz Club's Christmas Part...
- Budtet @ The Globe + Jam Session. Jazz Coop Xmas P...
- SSBB - Christmas @ Gosforth Civic Theatre - Saturd...
- CDs of the year - The singers
- CD Review: Andrew Cyrille – Lebroba
- Bop While You Shop - Dec 15
- Swinging into Christmas with Classic Swing @ Gates...
- RIP Nancy Wilson
- SSBB - Christmas @ Gosforth Civic Theatre - Friday...
- Preview: Glenn Miller Orchestra (UK) @ Sage Gatesh...
- Archipelago and Guests @ Bridge Hotel - Dec. 9
- Birthday Party @ The Black Swan w. the Mo Scott Band.
- Christmas Party Night @ Dormans Jazz Club Middlesb...
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow, Jesmond - Dec. 12
- CD Review: The Gil Evans Orchestra - Hidden Treasu...
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Dec. 11
- Gigs/CDs of the Year coming shortly...
- Jazz North’s northern line
- RIP BMus @ Sage Gateshead.
- CD Review: Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord - Hot Club...
- Preview: Indigo Jazz Voices – Dec. 13 @ The Globe
- House of the Black Gardenia @ Hoochie Coochie - De...
- Time Change at Hoochie.
- JB's Cats @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 8
- CD Review: Various Artists - Jazz City UK (Volume 1).
- King Bees @ Billy Bootleggers - Dec 7
- Super Sunday's Dilemma
- Zoë Gilby Quartet @ The Lit & Phil - Dec 7
- RIP Peter Boizot.
- Update on the 2019 Mike Durham's International Cla...
- CD Review: Burak Bedikyan - New Beginning
- NUJO Small Combo @ The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle U...
- CD Review: Julian Haugland - Julian Haugland
- Classic Swing @ the Block & Tackle, Ashington - De...
- Royal Northern College of Music plays Frank Zappa:...
- Headhunters @ Sage Gateshead - December 2
- Jambone @ St James' & St Basil's Church, Newcastle...
- More vin (extra) ordinaire - Hot Club du Nord @ St...
- Hot Club du Nord @ St. Cuthbert’s Parish Hall, Cro...
- Preview: Headhunters Funk-Up Sage Gateshead
- CD Review: Laura Dickinson - Auld Lang Syne
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5 comments :
That course will definitely not rest in peace. Not if I have anything to do with it! 😂
The course has produced some exceptional talent over the years. Such a shame to see it go! As a peripatetic drum teacher I know all about the decline of music education all too well. When a school says GCSE music will cease to exist due to lack of interest you know there's a problem. Here's hoping the new wave of jazz and pop bands (Vulfpeck, The 1975, Snarky Puppy etc) will inspire more people to take up a careeer in music and not look to just please their parents by becoming lawyers and doctors. Otherwise that would be a great tragedy indeed.
Sad times! Hope all goes well 👍
Well said Lance.
Music for all ? .... not these days! Learning an instrument has become unaffordable for many parents in the present 'jam' (pardon the pun!) society most folk find themselves in with a squeeze on everything (and errrr don't mention Brexit!!!) combined with the fact that music as a subject is being ever increasingly marginalised in schools. To quote the General Secretary of the musicians union Horace Trubridge "We may well only be hearing the songs and sounds of the affluent in the years to come" ...god forbid!
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