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April 2025.
Sat 05: Tenement Jazz Band @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00.
Sat 05: Sleep Suppressor @ Head of Steam, Newcastle. 5:30-6:00pm.
Sat 05: King Bees @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Raymond MacDonald & Jer Reid @ Lubber Fiend, Newcastle. 6:00-9:30pm. £7.72., £1.00. (minimum donation). MacDonald & Reid + Objections + Yotuns.
Sat 05: Jeff Hewer Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Kamasi Washington @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. £33.00.
Sat 05: Vermont Big Band @ The Seahorse, Whitley Bay. 7:30pm. Tickets: £10.00 (from the venue).
Sat 05: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sun 06: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm. £7.50.
Sun 06: Learning & Participation Showcase @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm (1:00pm doors). Free. Featuring participants from Play More Jazz! Play More Folk! Blue Jam Singers & more.
Sun 06: Joe Steels Group @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. Ferg Kilsby, Joe Steels, Ben Lawrence, Paul Susans, John Hirst.
Sun 06: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 06: Paul Skerritt @ The Hooch, Quayside, Newcastle. 6:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Sun 06: Leeway @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 07: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 07: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.
Tue 08: ???
Wed 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 09: Tannery jam session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Wed 09: Anatole Muster Trio @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £17.50., £12.50. concs.
Wed 09: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. CANCELLED?
Thu 10: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.CANCELLED!
Thu 10: Magpies of Swing @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00., £10.00., £7.00. A Globe fundraiser (all proceeds to the venue).
Thu 10: Exhaust: Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle @ Jesmond URC, Newcastle. 8:00pm (7:30pm doors). £13.20., £11.00. JNE.
Thu 10: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm. Feat. guests Ray Dales & Jackie Summers.
Fri 11: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 11: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 11: John Rowland Trio: The Music of Ben Webster @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Rowland (tenor sax); Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass).
Fri 11: Imelda May @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 11: Shunyata Improvisation Group @ Cullercoats Watch House. 7:30-9:00pm. Free (donations).
Reviewers wanted
Thursday, October 31, 2019
CD Review: Buster Bailey - Memphis Blues
CD Review: Søren Siegumfeldt String Swing - This is Meschiya Lake
8:30 am...it's jazz time!

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Elliot Galvin Trio @ Sage Gateshead - October 27

Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Oct. 29
It began as a very low-key affair. Where was everyone? Had they broomsticked home for Halloween? Who knows?
The trio set the scene with Airegin, I Love You and Chick Corea’s Windows which provided Grainger with the opportunity to crack that “the latter tune was dedicated to Lance’s former workplace (J.G. Windows Ltd., Central Arcade Newcastle)” – Don’t give up the day job Paul.
Kurt Elling - Man About Town
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2019 - The ones that got away


Monday, October 28, 2019
CD Review: Carolyn Lee Jones – Close Your Eyes

Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, evening session: Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - October 27
Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, early evening session - October 27
Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, afternoon session - October 27.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon - October 27


Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ St Cuthbert's Centre, Crook - October 26

CD Review: McAlmont & Webb - The Last Bohemians

News of a new weekly jazz evening in central London.


Saturday, October 26, 2019
CD Review: New York All-Stars - Live Encounter

Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ The Traveller's Rest, Darlington - October 25

Friday, October 25, 2019
Echoes of New Orleans with Colin Hancock

CD Review: When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield

Film review: Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool @ Tyneside Cinema - October 24
CD Review: Carmen Souza - The Silver Messengers

Thursday, October 24, 2019
The return of Vasilis the Great!

Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra @ King's Hall, Newcastle University - October 24

CD Review: Lyn Stanley - London With a Twist, Live at Bernie’s

Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Peter Wright funeral arrangements announced

Book Review: Ronnie Scott's 1959-69. Photographs by Freddy Warren
CD Review: Cathy Segal-Garcia - Straight Ahead to the U.K.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Exhibition review: Roy Lichtenstein
The Grafton alto sax
Laurie Rangecroft, anchor man of the SSBB sax section, sent me this brief clip of Alan Barnes having a blast on Laurie's Grafton alto sax at a jazz course over in the Lake District.
Younger readers may not remember the Grafton which was made of acrylic plastic and was in circulation in the 1950s.
Monday, October 21, 2019
The Darlington Big Band @ Dorman's Jazz Club Middlesbrough - October 17
Jazz in the Afternoon @ Cullercoats Crescent Club - October 21
Middlesbrough Town Hall Confirms the New and Improved Return of its National Jazz programme

Claire Martin w. Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie - Oct. 20
Sunday, October 20, 2019
CD Review: Fleur Seule – Standards And Sweet Things

Soweto Kinch on Radio 4 - October 26
Saturday, October 19, 2019
RIP Milcho Leviev.

No Fox @ The Globe – Oct. 17

Film review: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham - October 18
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- CD Review: Buster Bailey - Memphis Blues
- CD Review: Søren Siegumfeldt String Swing - This i...
- 8:30 am...it's jazz time!
- Elliot Galvin Trio @ Sage Gateshead - October 27
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Oct. 29
- Kurt Elling - Man About Town
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 20...
- CD Review: Carolyn Lee Jones – Close Your Eyes
- Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, evening ses...
- Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, early eveni...
- Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall, afternoon s...
- Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ The B...
- Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ St Cu...
- CD Review: McAlmont & Webb - The Last Bohemians
- News of a new weekly jazz evening in central London.
- CD Review: New York All-Stars - Live Encounter
- Vasilis Xenopoulos with the Paul Edis Trio @ The T...
- Echoes of New Orleans with Colin Hancock
- CD Review: When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield
- Film review: Miles Davis: The Birth of the Cool @ ...
- CD Review: Carmen Souza - The Silver Messengers
- The return of Vasilis the Great!
- Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra @ King's Hall, N...
- CD Review: Lyn Stanley - London With a Twist, Live...
- Peter Wright funeral arrangements announced
- Book Review: Ronnie Scott's 1959-69. Photographs b...
- CD Review: Cathy Segal-Garcia - Straight Ahead to ...
- Exhibition review: Roy Lichtenstein
- The Grafton alto sax
- The Darlington Big Band @ Dorman's Jazz Club Middl...
- Jazz in the Afternoon @ Cullercoats Crescent Club ...
- Middlesbrough Town Hall Confirms the New and Impro...
- Claire Martin w. Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Hooch...
- CD Review: Fleur Seule – Standards And Sweet Things
- Soweto Kinch on Radio 4 - October 26
- RIP Milcho Leviev.
- No Fox @ The Globe – Oct. 17
- Film review: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Th...
- CD Review: Voctave - Somewhere There's Music
- Farewell Peter Wright
- The Award Winning Colin Hancock
- Gerry Richardson Jazz Quartet @ Hoochie Coochie - ...
- CD Review: Brenda Earle Stokes - Solo Sessions Vol...
- CD Review: Scott Kinsey - We Speak Luniwaz: The Mu...
- Jam Session @ the Black Swan - October 15
- Tusk Festival: Magma @ Sage Gateshead – October 13
- Pete Tanton's Riviera Quartet @ Gala Theatre, Durh...
- Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez @ Sage Gateshead ...
- CD Review: Jim Rattigan's Pavillon - The Freedom o...
- RIP Turk Mauro
- Preview: Claire Martin @ Hoochie Coochie
- Preview: Ella & Miles go to the movies
- Keeping it local with JRR
- All Because Of Love: Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamd...
- Last chance to catch Bona & Rodriguez!
- The party continues...
- Dave Weisser's 80th Birthday Bash @ The Globe - Oc...
- Beverley Knight sings Stevie Wonder @ Sage Gateshe...
- Preview: Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez @ Sage G...
- CD Review: Roger Kellaway - The Many Open Minds of...
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: A...
- Dulcie May Moreno & Stephen Bridgland @ The Jazz C...
- The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) presen...
- CD Review: The Lee-Wynne Quartet - Hats Off
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: C...
- CD Review: John Yao's Triceratops - How We Do
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: F...
- Preview: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe: October 10
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: ...
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: S...
- Ginger Baker dies at 80
- CD Review: Ray Blue - Work
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: Y...
- Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music: S...
- CD Review: Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet - Live at t...
- Jam Session @ The Dun Cow - October 2
- CD Review: Troy Roberts - Days Like These
- Nishla Smith & Tom Harris @ The Lubetkin Theatre, ...
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - October 1
- Mark Toomey presents a tribute to Cannonball Adder...
- CD Review: Miki Purnell - Midnight Bloom
- CD Review: Paulo Dias Duarte Overground Collective...
- Preview: Mike Durham's International Classic Jazz ...
- CD Review: ARQ - Short Stories
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