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From This Moment On ...
December
Sat 09: Prudhoe Community Band @ Central Station, Newcastle. 10:00am - 12 noon. Charity fundraiser.
Sat 09: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Skinnergate, Darlington. 1:00pm.
Sat 09: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 09: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Middleton & Todridge Village Hall, Morpeth. 7:30pm. £12.00., £6.00.
Sat 09: Paul Skerritt @ Slaley Hall, Hexham NE47 0BX. 7:30pm. From £42.00.
Sun 10: Musicians Unlimited’s Xmas Party with Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. MU 1:00-3:00pm; Zoë Gilby Quartet 4:00-6:00pm. Tickets: £7.50.
Sun 10: Alan Law, Paul Grainger & Abbie Finn @ Darlington Market, Market Square, Darlington. 1:00pm. Free. A ‘Christmas Market’ outdoor gig. Wrap up warm!
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Funk Soul Sista @ Stack, Seaburn. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Beth Clarke @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 10: Hayley's Little Big Band @ Whittingham Memorial Institute, Alnwick. 7:30pm. £12.00., £10.00.
Sun 10: Tele-Port @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Line-up inc. Zhenya Strigalev.
Mon 11: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 11: Interim Final Recitals @ Newcastle University. Details TBC.
Tue 12: Stu Collingwood Organ Trio @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Wed 13: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 13: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 13: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 13: Bold Big Band @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 13: Giles Strong Quartet @ Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Hot Fingers @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 14: After Hours Student Jazz Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. . Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 14: Niffi Osiyemi Trio @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Mo Scott ‘Little Mo’s Festive Appearance’ @ The Schooner, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Tees Hot Club w. Kevin Eland, Josh Bentham, Garry Hadfield, Adrian Beadnell @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 15: Paul Edis @ Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 15: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 15: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: Paul Skerritt @ Black Horse Inn, Crook. From 7:00pm.
Fri 15: Paul Edis: A Jazzy Christmas @ St Cuhtbert's Centre, Crook. 7:30pm. £15.00. SOLD OUT! Waiting list open.
Fri 15: Zoë Gilby Trio @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Fri 15: Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm. First night of two.
Fri 15: Darlington Big Band @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £10.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 15: Baghdaddies @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £14.00.; £10.00.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Best of January
January.
Ernie Watts Quartet - Home Light.
Chris Ingham - Stan.
Tommaso Starace - Harmony Less Quartet.
Beverley Church Hogan - Can't Get Out of This Mood.
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Gigs of the Month.
January.
House of the Black Gardenia @ Prohibition Bar (19th).
Jam Session @ The Black Swan (22nd).
Jam Session @ The Black Swan (8th).
Lance.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
CD Review: Jacob Zimmerman & His Pals - More of That
Wigan Early Bird about to fly!

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Preview JazzMain @ The Globe Jazz Bar
Tony Irving & Massimo Magee @ The Globe - Jan 28

Jazz in Jesmond and Japan

Monday, January 28, 2019
CD Review: Ran Blake & Claire Ritter - Eclipse Orange
JAZZ NORTH’S JAZZ CAMP FOR GIRLS PROVIDES A SPACE FOR GIRLS TO FLOURISH UNDER FEMALE ROLE MODELS
Musicians Unlimited @ The Park Inn, Hartlepool - Jan 27
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Tigran Hamasyan and The Voices of Hope @ Sage Gateshead – Jan. 26
Musings...

Saturday, January 26, 2019
CD Review: The Ebony Hillbillies - 5 Miles From Town
RIP Michel Legrand
Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms - January 25

Friday, January 25, 2019
CD Review: Duncan Eagles - Citizen.

Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival 2019 - Breaking news
CD Review: Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee - The Newest Sound You Never Heard

(Review by Lance).
Thursday, January 24, 2019
CD Review: Joe Lovano – Trio Tapestry

CD Review: Yonathan Avishai Trio – Joys and Solitudes
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Zoë Gilby and the Noel Dennis Quartet – Aurora @ The Gala Studio, Durham - Jan.4


Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Jan. 22
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
House of the Black Gardenia (second house) @ Prohibition Bar - Jan 19
Monday, January 21, 2019
CD Review: Tommaso Starace - Harmony Less Quartet - NARROW ESCAPE

Sounds from The Underground in The Victoria Tunnel – January 19
Overture to a jam session
Sunday, January 20, 2019
The House of the Black Gardenia @ the New Prohibition Cabaret Bar - Jan. 19.
(Review by Lance)
PHOTOS
They were all there, lined up against the wall. "Legs" Diamond, "Machine Gun" Kelly, "Baby Face" Nelson, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and a few hoods, torpedoes and their molls from across the river. This wasn't the St. Valentine's Day Massacre - it was still only January - it was the grand opening of the new Prohibition Cabaret Bar that, until a few weeks ago, had been the Jazz Café. Entrepreneur Mitch has moved his operation lock, stock and barrel from a railway arch on the south side to the Pink Lane venue conveniently sited near Newcastle Central Station for those who might need to make a quick getaway.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Adrian Cox: Profoundly Blue @ The Watchtower Gallery, Berwick - January 18
Early Bird Band @ Lit & Phil - Jan. 19

Lament for Lamont - Soul Legend Cancels

R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Hand to Mouth @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall: Jan. 18
Friday, January 18, 2019
Mark Williams & Joel Byrne-McCullough @ The Globe - January 17
Mark Williams and Joel Byrne-McCullough play jazz guitar and here at the Jazz Co-op's Railway Street HQ the duo entertained a wonderfully attentive audience playing a selection of GASbook to contemporary classics.
Big Band Library available
Thursday, January 17, 2019
CD Review: Howard McCrary - Moments Like This.

A Blizzard of Notes
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
River City Ride Again - as a quartet!
The band will initially be a four-piece comprising Phil Rutherford on sousaphone, Keith Stephen on guitar/banjo, Bob Wade on trumpet and Gordon Solomon on trombone.
CD Review: Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux - Path of Totality.
CD Review: Chris Ingham Quartet - Stan
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Hey, wanna buy a guitar?
Monday, January 14, 2019
CD Review: Jack Kilby & the Front Line - Love is a Song Anyone Can sing
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Snake Davis @ Charts - January 13
CD Review: Justin Morell - Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra

CD Review: Betty Bryant - Project 88
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Preview: Quilliam Bros in La La Land

Birthday Party @ Cullercoats Crescent Club with the Vieux Carré Jazzmen - Jan 11

CD Review: Theon Cross - FYAH

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- Best of January
- CD Review: Jacob Zimmerman & His Pals - More of That
- Wigan Early Bird about to fly!
- Preview JazzMain @ The Globe Jazz Bar
- Tony Irving & Massimo Magee @ The Globe - Jan 28
- Jazz in Jesmond and Japan
- CD Review: Ran Blake & Claire Ritter - Eclipse Orange
- JAZZ NORTH’S JAZZ CAMP FOR GIRLS PROVIDES A SPACE ...
- Musicians Unlimited @ The Park Inn, Hartlepool - J...
- Tigran Hamasyan and The Voices of Hope @ Sage Gate...
- Musings...
- CD Review: The Ebony Hillbillies - 5 Miles From Town
- RIP Michel Legrand
- Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms - January 25
- CD Review: Duncan Eagles - Citizen.
- Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival 2019 - Breaki...
- CD Review: Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee - The Newest Sou...
- CD Review: Joe Lovano – Trio Tapestry
- CD Review: Yonathan Avishai Trio – Joys and Solit...
- Zoë Gilby and the Noel Dennis Quartet – Aurora @ T...
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Jan. 22
- House of the Black Gardenia (second house) @ Prohi...
- CD Review: Tommaso Starace - Harmony Less Quartet...
- Sounds from The Underground in The Victoria Tunnel...
- Overture to a jam session
- The House of the Black Gardenia @ the New Prohibit...
- Adrian Cox: Profoundly Blue @ The Watchtower Galle...
- Early Bird Band @ Lit & Phil - Jan. 19
- Lament for Lamont - Soul Legend Cancels
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Hand to Mouth @ Bishop Auckland Tow...
- Mark Williams & Joel Byrne-McCullough @ The Globe ...
- Big Band Library available
- CD Review: Howard McCrary - Moments Like This.
- A Blizzard of Notes
- River City Ride Again - as a quartet!
- CD Review: Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux - Path of Totality.
- CD Review: Chris Ingham Quartet - Stan
- Hey, wanna buy a guitar?
- CD Review: Jack Kilby & the Front Line - Love is a...
- Snake Davis @ Charts - January 13
- CD Review: Justin Morell - Concerto for Guitar and...
- CD Review: Betty Bryant - Project 88
- Preview: Quilliam Bros in La La Land
- Birthday Party @ Cullercoats Crescent Club with th...
- CD Review: Theon Cross - FYAH
- Matt MacKellar Band @ the Black Swan - Jan. 10
- CD Review: Ernie Watts Quartet - Home Light
- Jeremy McMurray with the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ D...
- CD Review: Beverley Church Hogan - Can't Get Out o...
- Jam Session @ the Black Swan - January 8.
- CD Review: Alan Pasqua - Soliloquy
- CD: Wandering Monster
- A Gala Performance, a Darlington Opus
- CD Review: Blue Standard - A Good Thing
- RIP Urbie Green
- CD Review: The 14 Jazz Orchestra - The Future Ain'...
- Jazz Course Update - Jazz Coop
- King Bees @ Billy Bootleggers - Jan. 4
- CD Review: Ingrid Jensen & Steve Treseler - Invisi...
- CD Review: Florian Weber – Lucent Nights
- Veronica Swift Sings ...
- 100 Years of Jazz Piano from the James Pearson Trio
- CD Review: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Pete...
- Preview: Matt MacKellar Band - Jan 10
- False Alarm!
- Hear Me Talkin To Ya!
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