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Abbie Finn: "Even though there's a lot of great work being done to promote women in jazz, I still come up against some attitudes! I pulled up at a recording session with my drums in the car and the studio owner said, 'I'm sorry, this space is reserved for the drummer!'" - (Jazzwise April 2023).

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The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

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Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

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15245 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 264 of them this year alone and, so far, 77 this month (March 25).

From This Moment On ...

March

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.
Mar 26: Pop Jazz @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. 'Jazzified' tunes by the likes of Sylvester, Bowie, the Monkees etc., feat. Alan Law, David Gray, Richard Herdman & Jude Murphy.
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.

Fri 31: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 31: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 31: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 31: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm. CANCELLED! Back next week (April 7).
Fri 31: Jasmine Myra + Waclaw Zimpel @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Fri 31: The Revolutionaires @ The Shack, Boldon Colliery. 7:30pm. £10.00. The Revolutionaires' big band (horn section) line-up.
Fri 31: Andrew McCormack @ Maltings, Berwick. 8:00pm. £20.00.

April
Sat 01: The Big Easy @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 01: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning - In a Minor Key. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 01: Hot Club du Nord @ Pleased to Meet You, Bridge St., Morpeth. 8:00pm. £79.00. A charity fundraising event.
Sat 01: Boys of Brass @ Stack, Seaburn. 7:00-9:00pm.
Sat 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00. RESCHEDULED to next week (Sat 08).

Monday, March 16, 2020

Finntet @ Blaydon Jazz Club – March 15

Abbie Finn (drums); Paul Grainger (bass); Dean Stockdale (piano); Graham Hardy (trumpet/flugel); Harry Keeble (tenor sax).
(Review/photos by (Roly).

This new band, a quintet, played their inaugural concert at the Black Bull and a very fine opening gig it was. The band is in the classic hard bop quintet style – think Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Tubby Hayes through to Miles with Wayne Shorter. A golden period in jazz history.

It was the first time I’d heard Abbie Finn and Harry Keeble. They are part of a wave of really fantastic young jazz players coming through. They do their music degrees and emerge onto the scene with at times quite astonishing maturity and skill for their age. Awareness of presentation skills too. There is a vanguard of great young pros and the future of jazz is in very good hands!

We’ve heard Dean, Graham & Paul at Blaydon many times – seasoned players, masters at what they do. Putting them together with two of the most outstanding of the up and coming stars – which was Blakey’s own formula – made for a great quintet playing a mix of classic repertoire from this era plus some strong and varied compositions contributed by each member of the band.

Here is a brief resume of the set list:
Set 1
Dat Dere – Bobby Timmons (a la Blakey).
Armando’s Blues – Chic Corea
Dear Johnny B – Tubby Hayes (Dedicated to Johnny Butts)
Umlazi Morning – Paul Grainger (a theme reflecting the joy and happiness of the local people in the SA Durban area, despite their economic hardship).
Step Five – Graham Hardy (based on a pentatonic scale)
Lonely Voyager – Harry Keeble (an atmospheric theme dedicated to the Voyager missions).
Set 2
Swinging at the Haven – Ellis Marsalis
Nutville – Horace Silver
Walkabout – Abbie Finn
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – George Gershwin (a big band style arrangement condensed down for quintet by Dean Stockdale).
Bem-vinda – Paul Grainger (means ‘welcome’ in Portuguese).
Nica’s Dream – Horace Silver

Great band  - Great set of tunes – Go and hear them!
Roly

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