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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Sunday, December 08, 2019

Ben Gilbert Trio @ The Globe - Dec 7

Ben Gilbert (piano); Elliot Roffe (double bass); John Arnesen (drums)
(Review by Russell)

The Blofeld Experiment, Extreme Measures, that was more than a decade ago, since when Ben Gilbert relocated to London and more recently set up home in Leeds. Earlier in the day our pianist conducted a successful Jazz Co-op workshop at Sage Gateshead before meeting up with Elliot Roffe and John Arnesen to play a debut trio gig at Jazz Co-op HQ on Railway Street in Newcastle. 

The hordes descended on Railway Street (most of them making their way to the Arena!) and by eight o'clock a jazz crowd had taken its seats in the Globe's first floor performance space. Cole Porter's (You'd be so) Easy to Love introduced the trio; sparkling swing time, waltz time, bassist Elliot Roffe's solo instantly confirming his A-list credentials, similarly John Arnesen's hugely impressive drumming taking it out. Quite a start! Richard Rodgers, Kenny Wheeler, Wayne Shorter, Ben Gilbert had put together a choice set list, Shorter's Backstage Sally from the reedsman's days with the Jazz Messengers particularly effective with another fine contribution from Arnesen. Bandleader Gilbert chose to close the first set with an original composition - A Beautiful Summer. The Bad Plus and EST sprung to mind. 
   
Second set: Miles Davis' take on Frank Loesser's If I Were A Bell opened the show and what a show it turned out to be! A real swinger it was and a favourite tune followed - Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments. No horn arrangement, of course, but all three musicians - Gilbert, Roffe and Arnesen - pitched in with excellent solos. Time for a bop era standard - Monk's In Walked Bud. An evocative title if ever there was one - imagine TS Monk on stage at the Five Spot and the man walks in! Gilbert clearly likes Wayne Shorter's compositions, our pianist choosing Infant Eyes from Speak No Evil.  

As closing time loomed Gilbert thanked band mates Roffe and Arnesen for their sterling efforts and the Jazz Co-op's attentive audience for turning out on a mid winter evening. Drummer Jeff Hamilton's Gina's Groove set up a most musical of musical bass 'n' drums conversations with Gilbert clearly happy with how things had gone. It had been an excellent evening of GASbook to contemporary jazz...just imagine how the trio will sound with a couple of dozen gigs under its belt!         
Russell.

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