PS: 78s too!
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October
Thu 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 03: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Practices of Freedom workshop @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Book at: www.eventbrite.com.
Thu 03: Alcyona Mick + Juliana Day @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00. & £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM (Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music) in assoc. w. Northern Silents & JNE.
Thu 03: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. Ragtime piano. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 03: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Guest band night w. '58 Jazz Collective led by trumpeter Kevin Eland with Paul Donnelly (guitar); Donna Hewitt (saxes); Dave Archbold (keys); John Daniel (bass); Alex Cromarty (drums); Darren Moore (percussion) + JAN SPENCELAYH!. Free.
Fri 04: Satoko Fujii @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £8.00. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 04: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 04: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 04: Amirtha Kidambi w. Manon McCoy @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 6:20pm. £8.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. Gem Arts, JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Ziv Taubenfeld/Olie Brice/Kresten Osgood + Andy Champion + Izumi Kimura & Gerry
Hemingway @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: As I Sing & Breathe @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. ‘Songs & Improvisations’ - Nicols, Dalling & guests.
Fri 04: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 04: John Rowland Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 05: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Musical Boxing Training @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 2:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. ‘A workshop for musical improvisers’. An event in a boxing ring!
Sat 05: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Wylam Village Institute, Church Road, Wylam NE41 8AP. Doors 7:00pm. Tickets £15.00. + £1.50. bf, available from: www.gigantic.com.
Sat 05: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Bright Street Big Band @ Washington Arts Centre. From 7:00pm. £12.00. Bright Street Big Band on stage at 7:30pm, preceded at 7:00pm by a swing dance taster session.
Sat 05: J.A.M. String Collective + Tara Cunningham + The Flame @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Sat 05: Heavy Drunk @ Anarchy Brewery, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.00. + £1.50. bf. ‘Mississippi Delta Blues Experience’ feat. Heavy Drunk, Watermelon Slim & Leonardo Giuliani.
Sat 05: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Musical Boxing Night @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. Nicols, Dalling ao. An event in a boxing ring!
Sat 05: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 05: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Swarland Village Hall NE65 9JG. 8:00pm. £12.00.
Sun 06: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm (12:30pm doors). £7.50.
Sun 06: Luis Verde Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00.
Sun 06: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 06: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 06: Catriona Bourne Quartet + Heather Ferrier + Emma Johson’s Gravy Boat @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & The Globe.
Mon 07: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 07: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.
Tue 08: ???
Wed 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 09: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 09: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 09: Shunya, Dudù Kouate & Seb Rochford @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). £21.00.
Thu 10: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 10: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘Collaborations - it happened all the time’.
Thu 10: Indigo Jazz Voices w. the Little Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 10: Side Cafe Orkestar @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 10: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. With guests Donna Hewitt (sax); Bill Watson (trumpet); Graham Thompson (keys); Ron Smith (bass). Free.
Friday, December 28, 2018
RIP Nipper
PS: 78s too!
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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
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2 comments :
Well Said !:) Shame about Nipper though 😕
The only thing vinyls have going for them is the album sleeve; so nothing - just buy a poster (my friend bought a magnifying glass to read the liner notes of Mingus' Black Saint). Vinyls were designed specifically for radio play and the artists didn't actually like the snap, crackle and pop.
The problem with downloads/streaming is that people tend not to play the album. Some bands - ie Genesis/ Pink Floyd - have tried to stop people selecting tracks, but nobody takes any notice.
Some people in the media have tried to say CDs never took off, which is patently nonsense. I remember Piers Morgan saying, in a claim befitting of a Dallas scriptwriter, we went from vinyls to downloads.
Five years ago the only people who cared about vinyls were the half a dozen people who weren't sufficiently interested in music to replace their half a dozen vinyls. Does nobody else think it curious that all of these people went back to vinyls at the same time, which just so happens to coincide with the time the media started telling us to; a bit like the Beatles in the nineties.
We flatter ourselves it's about freewill, taste, opinion. There's a very famous essay by Marshall McLuhan called ' the Medium is the Message' (written in the sixties (I think)) where he claims people are more interested in the means of transmission than the content.
The figures are also grossly exaggerated by the media. Just over 4 million last year against nearly 3 million of just one Ed Sheeran album, and over 40 million CDs; the media didn't tell us that; they didn't mention Cds at all.
Since the media tells us that music fans prefer vinyls (vinyls fans prefer vinyls, music fans prefer music), if each one gets one for christmas, one for birthday, one for fathers day, one on vinyls record shop day and one just because they're such big music fans, that's about 2 thousand people buying vinyls.
Last year the BBC claimed that almost half of vinyls bought remained sealed, while they download/stream the music. The vinyls are left lying around as a demonstration of how right-on he is - it's always always stupid, white, straight men.
No doubt it'll be up again this year, now that all us middle class, middle aged, square men got a player last christmas. Christmas, birthday, fathers day presents for life.
I've even heard people say they prefer vinyls because great music is supposed to be difficult, and it requires effort to turn it over after side one and you have to go to a shop or a post-office because it won't fit through a letter-box. I don't think this is what people mean when they say the best music requires effort.
The insistence on vinyls has been catastrophic to the Soul Scene. When I left it in the early nineties, it was the best it's ever been and going in the right direction (in no small part, because of me). I had the best collection of vinyls in the region (probably still unsurpassed) and now have one of the best collections (on CD) in the country, perhaps the world. Now any fool with half a box of not very good vinyls can turn up and play the same rubbish every night and middle-aged men who went to Wigan Casino years too late and haven't been anywhere since will say KTF.
The media tell us that vinyls will save music (like punk-rock and the Beatles) but the reverse is true (in all three cases). The greatest collections of music on a hard copy the world will ever see has been CDs. The good news for me is they're drying up; the bad news is they're rocketing in price. The media don't tell us that either.
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