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October
Tue 29: ???
Wed 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 30: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 30: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. Fortnightly, next one Nov. 14.
Thu 31: The New '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Carlisle Rugby Club. Warwick Road, Carlisle CA1 1LW. 8:30pm. £12.
Thu 31: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. Guests Josh Bentham (sax); Dave Harrison (trumpet); Garry Hadfield (keys); Ron Smith (bass)
November
Fri 01: Mike Durham’s International Classic Jazz Party @ The Village Hotel, North Tyneside. 12 noon. Day 1/3. SOLD OUT!
Fri 01: Will Howard Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 01: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 01: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 01: Louis, Louis, Louis @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Sat 02: Mike Durham’s International Classic Jazz Party @ The Village Hotel, North Tyneside. 12 noon. Day 2/3. SOLD OUT!
Sat 02: Red Stripe @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 02: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. ‘Bebop Language by Barry Harris.’. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 02: Guy Davis @ The Witham, 3 Horse Market, Barnard Castle, DL12 8LY. &:30pm. £18-£20. Legendary American blues artist.
Sat 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
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.
Reviewers wanted
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
A Few Thoughts
Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 - March 31, 2020)
Live in our living rooms - direct from NYC
Lance.
PS: Enticing as the above is, don't forget there's also plenty stuff going on closer to home.
One Night in Birdland
CD Review – “Hybrid Harmony”- RJ & The Assignment
CD Review: Clairdee - A Love Letter to Lena
Monday, March 30, 2020
Bombay Jazz
The search goes on...
CD Review: Chris Mapp - Stillefelt
CD Review: George Colligan Trio - Live in Arklow
Sunday, March 29, 2020
CD Review: Al Gold – Al Gold’s Paradise
Helping our Bands and Musicians
rich@northernjazzpromoters.org or rich@norvoljazz.org with the following details, to help with generating an additional income stream. Please restrict your information as requested, as there’s only one person putting it all together:
- Name of artist/band.
- A link to your main website or Facebook page.
- A link to a purchase page or a CD you have for sale.
- A link to single track purchases.
- A YouTube share link (if no video link, we will accept one photo)
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The LOCKDOWN Sessions #1 - Route 66
Multi-platform jazz
A Stream of Thought
Friday, March 27, 2020
The Stream's becoming a river - Enrico Tomasso on Louis Armstrong.
Paul Edis: Lockdown Live! - March 27
RIP Bill Smith (1926 - 2020)
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Paul Edis online
Alice Sings, James Swings Honeysuckle Rose - duo performance @ Dorman's Club
Zoë and Andy update
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Lance: Photo (courtesy of Ken Drew) was not taken in the couple's living room).
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Jazzlines Free Gigs: Xhosa Cole Quintet Watch Party
The Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Fox Inn, Hexham - March 17
Jo & Jamie are Weathering the Storm
Lateralize Records is proud to announce the release of I Fall In Love Too Easily, the first single from Weathering The Storm, the much-anticipated debut album from Jo Harrop and Jamie McCredie.
RIP Manu Dibango
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The Cellar Boys + Miss Jubilee & Her Yas Yas Boys + Ethan Leinwand + Paradise Harmonians Dance Orchestra + Galaxie Girls + Dani Webber @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - March 15
Remembering Susannah McCorkle
Monday, March 23, 2020
CD Review: Julian Costello - Connections without borders
The Cellar Boys + Miss Jubilee & Her Yas Yas Boys + Andy Schumm's Adhocs + The Chicago Swell Sisters + Dani Webber @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - March 14
CD Review: Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Life Goes On
RIP Mike Longo (1939 - 2020)
Regretably, although I saw Dizzy many times I never heard him when Mike Longo was with him.
Sadly missed.
Lance
CD Review: Keith Oxman - Two Cigarettes in the Dark
Sunday, March 22, 2020
RIP Jon Christensen (1943 - 2020)
CD Review: David Berger & The Sultans of Swing - Marlowe
Jazz Indoors
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Catch up on John Nesbitt's Live Music on Teesside here.
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Tony Kofi - streaming live on F/b 19:00 hrs March 22.
CD Review: Byron Wallen - Portrait
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Book Review: Francis Davis - In the Moment, Jazz in the 1980s
CD Review: Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons
A Friday Cornucopia @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - March 13
Pudgy's @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - March 12
Friday, March 20, 2020
Summertime (Black and) Blues
Paul Edis on YouTube - March 20.
Paul Edis - Live in London
More thoughts
- venues could close, never to reopen
- when the crisis ends, there may be far fewer venues left to employ musicians -
- the combined potential income of all musicians is roughly in proportion to the number of venues
- the public could "lose the habit" of going to live gigs
Thursday, March 19, 2020
The Plague
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- A Few Thoughts
- Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 - March 31, 2020)
- Live in our living rooms - direct from NYC
- One Night in Birdland
- CD Review – “Hybrid Harmony”- RJ & The Assignment
- CD Review: Clairdee - A Love Letter to Lena
- Bombay Jazz
- The search goes on...
- Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion Living Room Gig - Wicked...
- CD Review: Chris Mapp - Stillefelt
- CD Review: George Colligan Trio - Live in Arklow
- CD Review: Al Gold – Al Gold’s Paradise
- Helping our Bands and Musicians
- The LOCKDOWN Sessions #1 - Route 66
- Multi-platform jazz
- A Stream of Thought
- The Stream's becoming a river - Enrico Tomasso on ...
- Paul Edis: Lockdown Live! - March 27
- Boo! Beware the Jazz Man!
- RIP Bill Smith (1926 - 2020)
- Paul Edis online
- Alice Sings, James Swings Honeysuckle Rose - duo ...
- Zoë and Andy update
- Jazzlines Free Gigs: Xhosa Cole Quintet Watch Party
- One dissatisfied Novocastrian
- The Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Fox Inn, Hexham - Ma...
- Jo & Jamie are Weathering the Storm
- RIP Manu Dibango
- The Cellar Boys + Miss Jubilee & Her Yas Yas Boys ...
- Remembering Susannah McCorkle
- CD Review: Julian Costello - Connections without b...
- The Cellar Boys + Miss Jubilee & Her Yas Yas Boys ...
- CD Review: Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallo...
- RIP Mike Longo (1939 - 2020)
- CD Review: Keith Oxman - Two Cigarettes in the Dark
- RIP Jon Christensen (1943 - 2020)
- CD Review: David Berger & The Sultans of Swing - M...
- Jazz Indoors
- CD Review: Byron Wallen - Portrait
- Book Review: Francis Davis - In the Moment, Jazz i...
- CD Review: Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons
- A Friday Cornucopia @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin ...
- Pudgy's @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - March 12
- Summertime (Black and) Blues
- Paul Edis on YouTube - March 20.
- Paul Edis - Live in London
- More thoughts
- The Plague
- Abigail Pogson, Managing Director, Sage Gateshead ...
- Roly on Steve Winwood
- Customs House Big Band @ Dormans Jazz Club Middles...
- NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR JAZZ FM AWARDS 2020
- Message from Paul Edis
- Cheltenham Jazz Festival update
- CD Review: Tom Green Septet - Tipping Point
- We're not yet in total lockdown...
- Globe/Jazz Coop - Coronavirus Update
- CD Review: Mad Love – Ish
- THE VIEUX CARRÉ JAZZMEN
- Message from Abigail Pogson, Managing Director Sag...
- Bus Tour to Hell @ Bix Fest, Racine, Wisconsin - M...
- Do You Know What it Means to Miss (the) New Orlean...
- Indigo Jazz Voices cancel
- Gig updates needed urgently
- Finntet @ Blaydon Jazz Club – March 15
- VULA VIEL pull out.
- Jazz Café shut down
- Jazz 'n' Blues at the Art Institute of Chicago
- The polls are now open in the 2020 All Party Parli...
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Flat Caps Café, Newcas...
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ Flat Caps Café, Newcas...
- CD Review: Lizzie Thomas – New Sounds From The Jaz...
- Animal Society @ The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle - Mar...
- EP Review: Jonathan Ng - The Sphynx
- Jazz North East present Women Make Music 2020
- Taking the Loop
- Acoustic Infusion @ Dormans Jazz Club Middlesbroug...
- Celebrated London Pianist to Close Popular Jazz Pr...
- Preview: The Dean Stockdale Trio @ Hexham Jazz Clu...
- Going to Chicago
- Jam Session @ the Black Swan Jazz Café - March 10
- CD/LP/Digital Review: Andre Canniere - Ghost Days
- Come this way ma'am!
- NORTHERN JAZZ CLUBS TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION O...
- The State of Song.
- The Tenement Jazz Band @ Prohibition Bar - Mar 8
- CD Review: Ian Shaw - What's New?
- Preview: Today! The Tenement Jazz Band to play Pr...
- CD Review: John Di Martino - Passion Flower
- Michael Littlefield & Dominic Hornsby @ Prohibitio...
- Gateshead Jazz Festival
- RIP McCoy Tyner
- Tonight! Michael is a Lone King Bee!
- Preview: Ojay...from street to gallery!
- Friday 13th strikes....
- Funk: a Musical Revolution. Pee Wee Ellis Band wit...
- BBC Big Band @ The Gala Theatre, Durham - March 4
- An appraisal of George Russell’s Jazz Theory and i...
- Dean Stockdale & Louise Dodds @ Jazz Cafe Mezzanin...
- Great North Big Band Jazz Festival 2020: Youth Sec...
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