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Bebop Spoken There

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Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

Monday, February 18, 2019

East Coast Jazz Jam @ The Exchange, North Shields - Feb 17

Keith Barrett (guitar); 
Bernie Ranson (tenor sax, keyboards); Andrew Porritt (double bass); Sam Young (drums) + Jude Murphy (alto sax, flute, vocals); Dave Weisser (cornet, vocals); Johannes Dalhuijsen (tenor sax, soprano sax)
(Review by Russell)

The East Coast Jazz Jam is a monthly, early evening jam session 'down at the coast'. The Exchange in North Shields stages a wide range of events (theatre, music, cinema) including a couple of jam sessions - one jazz, one blues. Last night, the third Sunday in the month, it was the turn of the former, the jazz jam.


Local resident and Newcastle Jazz Co-op member Keith Barrett decided it was time to arrange a jam session at the coast. Since last year the East Coast Jazz Jam has offered a monthly platform to all-comers and last night two stalwarts of the regional jazz scene - Dave Weisser and Jude Murphy - made the trip from County Durham to lend support and have a blow.

The Exchange café/bar is a comfortable space in which to relax. Locals, cyclists, whoever, they enjoy the ambiance, the well-kept real ales and, on this occasion, there was the jazz to enjoy. Stolen Moments for starters. Weisser and Murphy sat alongside Bernie Ranson who periodically switched from tenor sax to keyboards and back again. Weisser sang a first (always superb) vocal on I Can't Get Started with Murphy on alto. 

Barrett's guitar, Murphy's flute and the double bass playing of the impressive Andrew Porritt more than successfully negotiated Wayne Shorter's Footprints. Half an hour in Johannes Dalhuijsen arrived in time to join the party on Bernie's Tune. During the evening JD would alternate between alto and tenor saxes. Jude Murphy has been known to blow some fine flute and she did so again on Wave to take the session up to a mid-session interval. 

Back to the bar...following an earlier choice of Young's Bitter it was time to try Three Kings' Dark Side of the Toon (a 6% stout). Hmm...not what you'd call a 'session beer'! 

The jam session resumed with Ranson at the keyboard and Dalhuijsen on tenor as Weisser sang A Day in the Life of a Fool. Not to be outdone, Murphy launched into a scatted take on Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise. Well, it had been worth making the trip to the coast! Drummer Sam Young, sound throughout the evening, had his moment in the sun (moonlight?!) with a round of fours on, you've guessed it...Four. The next edition of the East Coast Jazz Jam is scheduled for Sunday 17 March, six o'clock (ish) start.  
Russell.          

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