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September
Tue 26: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Wed 27: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 27: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 27: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Alice Grace Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 28: Faye MacCalman + Snape/Sankey @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 28: Zoe Rahman @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 28: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Speakeasy @ Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £15.00. A Southpaw Dance Company presentation. Dance, audio-visuals, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, swing dancers etc.
Thu 28: Mick Cantwell Band @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Ace blues band.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Sat 30: John Pope Quintet + Late Girl + Shapeshifters @ Bobik's, Jesmond, Newcastle.
Sat 30: Papa G's Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
OCTOBER
Sun 01: Smokin' Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm.
Sun 01: Dulcie May Moreno sings Portrait of Sheila @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. Moreno sings Sheila Jordan with Giles Strong, Mick Shoulder & John Bradford.
Sun 01: Middlesbrough Jazz & Blues Orchestra @ Saltburn Community Hall. 2:00pm.
Sun 01: The Easy Rollers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.70., £11.55.
Sun 01: Brand/Roberts/Champion/Sanders @ Blank Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Sun 01: Papa G's Troves @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 02: FILM: Wattstax; 50th Anniversary @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 8:00pm.
Friday, November 01, 2019
Reflections...
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- CD Review: Classic Swing - Stepping Out with a Memory
- CD Review: Anne Phillips – Live At The Jazz Bakery
- Donkeys, Jazz and Mince Pies @ The Garden Centre
- Revisiting a super CD.
- CD Review: The Darius Brubeck Quartet – Live in Po...
- Ingrid & Christine Jensen with the Whirlwind Recor...
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - Nov. 26
- R.I.P. Roy Willox.
- Pope to visit Leeds
- CD Review: Keith Jarrett – Munich 2016
- The Eales' Report: Opus 4 Jazz Club - Nov 22
- Jazz Social @ Charts - Nov 24
- New Gateshead Jazz line-up announced
- Steve Hackett @ Sage Gateshead – Nov. 23
- EFG London Jazz Festival - Rhiannon Giddens/ Franc...
- Sorathy Korwar @ Sage Gateshead (Sage 2) – Nov. 19
- CD Review: Kelley Johnson - Something Good
- CD Review: Joachim Caffonnette Trio - Vers L'Azur ...
- El swing de los años 30 y 40: swing revival
- Preview: Zbigniew Namyslowski Quintet @ Jazz Cafe ...
- The Tenement Jazz Band @ Theatre Hullabaloo, Darli...
- CD Review: DIVA Jazz Orchestra - DIVA + The Boys
- Sue Ferris Trio @ The Merry Monk, Bishop Auckland ...
- Alice Grace-Jordan Alfonso Quintet @ St James' & S...
- CD Review: Joy Ellis – Dwell
- CD Review: Burak Bedikyan - Istanbul Junction
- Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra @ the Dun Cow,...
- Composer of the Week: Mary Lou Williams
- Classic Swing @ Blaydon Jazz Club - Nov 17
- CD Review: Ronny Whyte - Whyte Witchcraft
- Sunday Jazz @ Middlesbrough Town Hall w. Binker Go...
- Emma Johnson's Gravy Boat @ The Globe - Nov. 16
- Not dreaming of a White Christmas
- Preview: Swinging into Blaydon with Classic Swing!
- Jo Harrop & Jamie McCredie @ Holy GrAle, Durham - ...
- Jo Harrop & Jamie McCredie @ The Lit & Phil - Nov 15
- Mondo Trumpet @ Gosforth Civic Theatre - November 14
- FOUR MILLION HITS LATER...
- Sirkis-Bialas IQ @ King's Hall, Newcastle Universi...
- If you happen to be in NYC next Thursday...
- Calvert and the Old Fools @ Dormans Jazz Club, Mid...
- CD Review: Buddy Rich - Just in Time: The Final Re...
- Sugaray Rayford + Radikal Queen @ The Cluny - Nov. 12
- Leading Light of The UK Jazz Revival Binker Goldin...
- DownBeat Readers Poll.
- CD Review: Dave Stryker - Eight Track Christmas
- The Eales' Report - Nov 8
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel -...
- Preview: Sugaray Rayford @ The Cluny - Nov 12
- CD Review: Greg Abate - Gratitude
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel -...
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- Greg Abate w. Paul Edis Trio @ The Black Swan - No...
- Jam session @ The Dun Cow - Nov 6
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel -...
- Preview: Greg Abate w. Paul Edis Trio @ Black Swan...
- Alice Grace & Paul Edis @ Jazz Cafe Mezzanine - No...
- Jam Session @ The Black Swan - November 5
- Mike Durham's Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel -...
- Sunday Shopping
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- CD Review: Kyle Eastwood – Cinematic
- Preview: An evening with Michael Bublé @ the Utili...
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3 comments :
I know he's by now one of the old guard but I believe Kenny Garrett is a unique voice, which is probably why Miles worked with him so much in latter years
Come on Lance, this must be a wind up? Trying to get some more traffic going on BSH?
A proper "youth of today" would just smile and post LOL and few emojis in response ;)
Still, since I'm not youth any more, I'll have a go, as I'm familiar with this line from my kids when I tell them that bands today aren't a patch on when I was a lad : Mahavishnu, Nucleus, Hendrix, Soft Machine etc - Steve T knows the score.
After some years of active listening to "new" music (post 2000?) I can make a few of my own (personal and flawed) observations. I guess these won't change what Lance hears - this stuff is all personal and a unique product of our own individual musical journey and history.
1. "Jazz" is wider, deeper and more "developed" now than in any previous era - far more diverse than the era of the one true authentic way of swing/bop (with its own British strand) so loved (justifiably of course) by Lance;
2. we have unrivalled and privileged access to live and recorded music now, and even if 1. (above) isn't true, then it seems like it to me ;
3. the changed nature of the music industry and streaming doesn't lend itself to a small roster of jazz "superstars" and heroes (and also makes it darn' difficult to make a living for musicians);
4. Lance may not recognise them, but even to my sceptical ears there are highly distinctive and unmistakable voices today, even playing in and visiting the North East! From the new wave of (under-5Os?) on the world stage I give you Tigran, Adam Baldych, Mehldau, Kamasi, Christian Scott, Yazz Ahmed, Snarky Puppy, Marcus Gilmore, Simcock, Avishai Cohen (x2!). I'm confident there are jazz listeners out there in abundance who could pass the two note test with these artists!
If he needs an introduction to some distinctive voices, then perhaps tomorrow's Jazz Record Requests special on ECM's 50th birthday (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009zpp) would be a good reminder of some other"two-note" masters - Garbarek, Metheny and Jarrett?
Anyway, Lance, thanks as ever for the provocation, and my realisation that there is more than enough great music out there for all of us to enjoy. I hope you find what you're looking for in your pile of CDs, but remember that your first love is the most intense, and you're asking a lot to re-live that thrill again!
Chris K
I know what you mean Lance. Thanks to the excellent college run jazz courses we now have a superb pool of jazz musicians, who as you say, are technically superior to the past players who you and I grew up with. But to me there is a lack of uniqueness and individualism that earmarked players such as Pee Wee Russell, Wild Bill Davison, Jack Teagarden, Benny Carter, Charlie Parker and many more. Obviously there are a few exceptions but I'm sure that you and I could identify literally dozens of musicians from the period of which you speak, simply because nobody else played like them!
Gordon Solomon.
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