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17487 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 761 of them this year alone and, so far, 66 this month (Oct. 30).

From This Moment On ...

November

Sun 03: Mike Durham’s International Classic Jazz Party @ The Village Hotel, North Tyneside. 12 noon. Day 3/3. SOLD OUT!
Sun 03: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm (12:30pm doors). £7.50.
Sun 03: Dean Stockdale Trio @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. Dean Stockdale, Mick Shoulder, John Bradford.
Sun 03: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 03: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free. Rescheduled date from Sunday 27 October.
Sun 03: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 03: Leeway @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 03: Hi Res Heart @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Pyne/Archer/Keefe/Bardon. JNE.

Mon 04: Enrico Tomasso/Cia Tomasso/Curtis Volp @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 04: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Square, Whitley Road, Palmersville, Newcastle upon Tyne NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1.00pm. Free.
Mon 04: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30-8:30pm. Free.

Tue 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval NE25 0AT. 12:30pm. £12.00. ‘Guy Fawkes Steak & Ale Pie & Pea Lunch’. To book tel: 0191 237 3697.
Tue 05: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, North St., Ferryhill DL17 8HX. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 05: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Stu Collingwood, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 06: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 06: The Horne Section’s Hit Show @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 06: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 07: Jazz Appreciation North East/Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘George - named musicians, vocalists & composers (Chisholm, Duke, Lewis, Shearing, Benson, Melly, Gershwin et al)’.
Thu 07: Aki Remally: The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Remally (guitar, vocals); Fraser Urquhart (piano); Tom Wilkinson (bass); Max Popp (drums).
Thu 07: Rat Pack Live @ Whitley Bay Playhouse. 7:30pm.
Thu 07: Mo Scott @ The Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:30pm. Free.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. Guest band night with the new Pensacola Boulevard: Josh Bentham (trumpet!); Donna Hewitt (clarinet); Ron Smith (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Mark Hawkins (drums); Django ZaZou (trombone); Vicky Jackson (vocals).

Fri 08: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 08: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 08: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Corbridge. 7:00pm.
Fri 08: TC & the Groove Family + Swannek + Knats @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 09: Moscow Drug Club @ Hamsterley Village Hall, Co. Durham DL13 3QF. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Sat 09: Anth Purdy @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. ‘Swing Jazz Guitar’. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

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, July 08, 2019

CD Review: Larry Fuller - Overjoyed


Larry Fuller (piano), Hassan Shakur (bass), Lewis Nash (drums).
(Review by Dave Brownlow).

What a pleasure it is to come across an album such as this which incorporates many of the best qualities of jazz music – swing, the blues, chops, flair, humour, drive, surprise, good taste, invention, and sheer joy. Larry Fuller has worked with many notable musicians - Ray Brown, Ernestine Anderson, Harry Edison, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, John Pizzarelli - and he brings the experience gained to the piano keyboard in his own soulful style on this CD.
Fuller likes to connect with the audience emotionally through the ‘joie de vivre’ of his playing much as Oscar Peterson did and indeed there are connections to Oscar’s famous trio throughout. Larry played long-term in the Ray Brown Trio, also including a Peterson composition here. The trio arrangements are tight and well rehearsed, and the exuberance and élan of his playing is reminiscent at times of O.P. himself. Standards, blues, jazz, pop, bossa-nova – Fuller is comfortable and expert in all of those genres with excellent support from Shakur and Nash.

Wes Montgomery’s Fried Pies gets us off to a ‘groovy’ start with plenty of grits and gravy. Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed has a flowing, delicate interpretation in ‘bossa’ style with lots of filigree upper-register runs from the pianist, anchored by sturdy support from bass and drums. A “bluesy” Ray Brown composition, Lined with a Groove, includes fine, agile work from the bassist very much in the style of Ray himself. Two Fuller originals follow. Jane’s Theme features a tightly arranged trio head with statement and performance on an attractive chord sequence. A soulful The Mooch charges along in a joyful examination of an age-old chord sequence so beloved of jazzers. The Gershwin’s standard How Long Has This Been Going On, unaccompanied, has a typical Peterson out-of-tempo theme, leading to a ‘stride’ solo which swings irresistibly.

Cubano Chant, from the pen of Ray Bryant, charges along joyfully with Fuller mining many of the traditional blues phrases. Mona Lisa (Evans and Livingstone) is charmingly, unpretentiously played in ballad style (a far cry from Conway Twitty’s 1959 version!) Peterson’s fast, intricate Bossa Beguine is a tour-de-force for the group and after a tightly arranged theme segment, Larry shows off his fine technique and Nash also shines on the fours.

Richard Evans’ slightly melancholic Bossa Nove De Marilla is tastefully played with classical influences throughout. More glittering right-hand runs enhance this track. Never Let Me Go (also by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston) is a thoughtful, sensitive, unaccompanied piece where Larry digs deep in an emotional rendering of the well-known song. A lively work out on Preston Foster’s Got My Mojo Workin’ and the CD ends with a good dose of the foundation of jazz – the blues.

Larry Fuller’s own philosophy sums up this release accurately – “To uplift people with the joyous spirit of the music. “To play with joy, to swing and play the blues. These are the hallmarks of jazz that inspired me and are the traditions I continue to aspire to”
Dave B
Available now on Capri Records - #74155-2 from: caprirecords.com or
larryfuller.com/about/

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