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July
Sat 27: BBC Proms: BBC Introducing stage @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 12 noon. Free. Line-up inc. Nu Groove (2:00pm); Abbie Finn Trio (2:50pm); Dilutey Juice (3:50pm); SwanNek (5:00pm); Rivkala (6:00pm).
Sat 27: Nomade Swing Trio @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 27: Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sat 27: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sat 27: Theon Cross + Knats @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 10:00pm. £22.00. BBC Proms: BBC Introducing Stage (Sage Two). A late night gig.
Sun 28: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm.
Sun 28: Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band @ Fonteyn Ballroom, Dunelm House (Durham Students’ Union), Durham. 2:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sun 28: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Nomade Swing Trio @ Red Lion, Alnmouth. 4:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 28: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 28: Milne Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Mon 29: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 30: ???
Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
August
Thu 01: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00.
Thu 01: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 01: Elsadie & the Bobcats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 02: Mainly Two @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free (donations). SOLD OUT!
Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Pete Tanton’s Chet Set @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. POSTPONED!
5 comments :
Wow! It sounds like it's going to be a great weekend. However, for those staunch Tynesiders who think Darlo is 'doon sooth' then all is not lost. You can cut your journey by half and go to Durham where the ace of aces, Simon Spillett, will be wowing us with some of the greatest tenor playing either side of Tubby Hayes. Yes, Simon - who is to tenor playing what Billy the Kid was to gunslinging (and he has yet to meet up with a tenor-toting Pat Garrett who could out blow him) - plays two sessions on Friday in and around Durham. Friday lunchtime, catch him with Paul Edis at the Gala Theatre then, in the evening, long before sundown, Spillett and Edis are in quartet mode at Ushaw College. Both sessions are unmissable but, as the Gala is invariably sold out, Ushaw is the place for me!
Not to mention the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, one of the biggest and worst organised in the country. As always, the listener must decide for themselves where the genuine quality ends and the naff stuff begins.
For me the big attractions are Swing Out Sister, Dave Sanborn, Joshua Redman, Soweto Kinch, Partisans, Sergio Mendes, Vula Viel, Yazz Ahmed, Bad Plus, Omar Sosa, Kandace Springs, John Surman, Abdullah Ibrahim, Incognito and Level 42, so I'm guessing a couple of surprises there.
Leading the naff end are Jamie Cullum, Gregory Porter, James Morrison, Katie Melua and Madeleine Peyroux.
And not forgetting Ribble Valley Jazz Festival, featuring ace north east guitarist Mark Williams. I recall last year or the year before planning to do a festival crawl from Darlo to Ribble to Cheltenham but the long suffering, eternally skint Mrs T put a stop to it so we missed out Ribble.
Emma Fisk's six string partner at Sunday's jazz brunch session in Hash Bar on Coniscliffe Road will be Dave Harris not James Birkett.
Another fine guitarist who knows his Gypsy Jazz.
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