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15491 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 512 of them this year alone and, so far, 133 this month (May 31).

From This Moment On ...

June

Sat 03: Newcastle Record Fair @ Northumbria University, Newcastle NE8 8SB. 10:00am-3:00pm. Admission: £2.00.
Sat 03: Pedigree Jazz Band @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 03: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Sue Ferris. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 03: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 03: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.

Sun 04: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 04: Central Bar Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. £5.00. The Central Bar Quintet plays Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus. Featuring Lewis Watson.
Sun 04: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 04: Struggle Buggy + Michael Littlefield @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Acoustic blues.
Sun 04: Swinging at the Cotton Club: Harry Strutters' Hot Rhythm Orchestra @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sun 04: Richard Jones Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 04: Jam No. 18 @ Fabio's Bar, Saddler Street, Durham. 8:00pm. Free. All welcome. A Durham University Jazz Society event.

Mon 05: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 06: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. House trio: Stu Collingwood (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Sid White (drums).

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 08: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED! BACK ON JUNE 15.
Thu 08: Easington Colliery Brass Band @ The Lubetkin Theatre, Peterlee. 7:00pm. £10.00.
Thu 08: Faye MacCalman + Blue Dust Archive @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Dilutey Juice + Ceramic @ The Ampitheatre, Sea Road, South Shields. 7:00pm. Free. A South Tyneside Festival event.
Thu 08: Lara Jones w. Vigilance State @ Lubber Fiend, Blandford Square, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 08: Michael Littlefield @ the Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Country blues.
Thu 08: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 09: Castillo Nuevo @ Revolución de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30-8:30pm.
Fri 09: Emma Rawicz @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm.

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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