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Postage

16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Sunday, June 02, 2019

Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon - June 1

(Review by Russell)

North Tyneside boasts at least one daytime residency every day, Monday to Friday. All are popular, free admission sessions with a mid-afternoon finish enabling gig-goers to hop on a bus or Metro and head for home before school kids and commuters do the very same thing. A Saturday evening residency with a door charge is an altogether different proposition. No one would ever contemplate such a crazy idea...   

Thanks to the tireless efforts of band leader Maureen Hall there has been a first Saturday in the month Dixieland session 'down the coast' for more years than the vocalist would care to remember. From Cullercoats to Preston Grange to Earsdon, Hall's Rendezvous Jazz outfit has resolutely defied the odds and here, at the Red Lion on Front Street, the band's followers turned out once more despite the attraction of tv coverage of the Champions' League Final. 
On this first day of June, Hall thought it a good idea to begin with June Night from 1924. Hall took the first vocal of the evening - I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town - from 1912 (Ella, Kay Starr and others recorded the number). From 1921 Jazz Me Blues caught the ear of Gavin Lee. Opting to play soprano, the New Centurion knocked out the first of several great solos (others would follow, on soprano, alto or clarinet). In the absence of the band's other vocalist, regular drummer George Davidson, Hall invited John Broddle to sing a few numbers. Roses of Picardy the first of them, Broddle impressed, as did Lee playing Bechet-esque soprano. 

Two deps acquitted themselves well - Ian Hetherington in for Davidson, and, adding lustre to the frontline, trombone maestro Gordon Solomon. The one-time River City Jazzman, deserving of the tag 'special guest', recently returned to the scene. The younger members of the regional branch of the Union of Trombonists should check him out - Solomon's glissandos on Savoy Blues would blow 'em away at a jam session! 

Raffle done, another pint of Red Lion (what else?!), Maureen rounded-up the boys and let them loosen-up on an instrumental China Boy before assuming command on Faraway Blues. Not one to take centre stage, Hall called John B back to the stand to sing Avalon. One assumes JB sang with some decent bands down the years, his phrasing suggests he knows his stuff. Hall's Melancholy Blues led to JB's Margie before all hell broke loose on a 'six nowt' version of Tiger Rag. The audience reaction was such that pianist Malcolm Armstrong called for order: Calm doon, calm doon! The great Doris Fenn, banjo, sitting alongside the pianist, was highly amused. 

It had been a canny session. Maureen Hall's Rendezvous Jazz will be back at the Red Lion on Saturday, July 6 (8:30pm). £3 on the door, on this occasion, admission will include a buffet.    
Russell.

Maureen Hall (vocals); Gavin Lee (clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax); Gordon Solomon (trombone); Malcolm Armstrong (piano); John Robinson (double bass); Ian Hetherington (drums) + John Broddle (vocals); Doris Fenn  (banjo).

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