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March
Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Jam Session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free
Thu 12: Boomslang @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 13: Paul Skerritt Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm . £9.00.
Fri 13: The SH#RP Collective @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Soothsayers + Rookie Numbers @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.51., £14.33., £11.16.
Sat 14: The Too Bad Jims @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm (6:30pm doors). £13.20., £11.00. R&B.
Sat 14: NUJO @ Venue, Newcastle University Students’ Union. Time TBC. £15.00. supporter; £10.00. standard; £5.00. student. Seated event.
Sun 15: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 15: The Too Bad Jims @ The Georgian Theatre, Stockton. 3:00pm. £12.00. R&B.
Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Rebecca Poole @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £14.00., £12.00., £7.00. Poole w. Dean Stockdale & Ken Marley. CANCELLED!
Mon 16: Milne Glendinning Band @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 16: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: Russ Morgan Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Scotty Adair (drums).
Colin Aitchison, that well-known jazz historian, bon vivant trumpet/trombone player and broadcaster currently resident "somewhere east of Suez" - Ned Kelly's Last Stand in Kowloon, Hong Kong to be exact - uncovered this amazing letter from Radio Review, July, 1936.
5 comments :
Good luck with that Lance , I can't wait until you tell the ladies and gentlemen vocalists at the next Jam Session , whenever that is , that their Crooning won't be tolerated !
I and many others have been taught jazz-singing by the great Lindsay Hannon at the Sage, and we certainly can't be accused of crooning! The article was funny, mind.
Oh, Lance - and Colin too! This is hilarious - such perfectly archaic writing for that time. But the guy was certainly most hot and bothered - I wonder if he'd heard Ellington's hotter than hades record played on one of those other radio stations? For me, I wouldn't have wanted to exterminate all crooners - there were a few far superior ones on the other side of the pond at this guy's time of writing. Even in the UK, we would have had Al Bowlly - with Ray Noble's great band ......
I agree, you can't be accused of crooning. Crooning was a crime performed by such arch-criminals as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Dinah Shore and many other Public Enemy Number Ones.
One more from me - does anyone know about the history of the Radio Review publication? I've done a few searches, but haven't found any info yet. I know the Radio Times was from the early 20's - but this letter was in the mid 30's, and I'm curious. Can anyone enlighten me please??
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