November
Sat 07: Mike Durham’s International Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel, West Allotment. 12 noon. Day 2/3.
Sat 07: Ewan Bleach’s Cable Street Ragtime Band @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington.
12:30pm. £10.00. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club. Superb band.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £27.50. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. Find Your Pocket: Funk & Groove. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Red Kites Jazz @ Costa Café, St James’ Retail Park, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 07: Ray Stubbs’ R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle. 6:00pm.
Sun 08: Mike Durham’s International Classic Jazz Party @ Village Hotel, West Allotment. 12 noon. Day 3/3.
Sun 08: Greg Abate w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 08: Kaberry Big Band @ Forest Hall Social Club. 3:00pm. £7.00 (inc. tea & cake). Charity event for the Poppy Appeal.
Sun 08: Greg Abate w. Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 09: Bechet-Spanier Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.; £5.00. Muggsy Spanier was born 125 years ago today (9 November 1901). This afternoon’s all-star quartet - from London, Lewis Taylor (cornet) & Michael McQuaid (reeds), from Paris, Félix Hunot (guitar), from London, Harry Evans (string bass) - salutes Muggsy!
Mon 09: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 09: Bechet-Spanier Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00. Muggsy Spanier was born 125 years ago today (9 November 1901). This evening’s all-star quartet - from London, Lewis Taylor (cornet), from London, Michael McQuaid (reeds), from Paris, Félix Hunot (guitar), from London, Harry Evans (string bass) - salutes Muggsy!
Tue 10: Alan Law @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 2:00pm. Free. Alan Law (piano) w. Becky Tuck (vocals).
Tue 10: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 11: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. 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.
Wed 11: Plague Doctors Cure All + Noonward @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 8:00pm. JNE.
Thu 12: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: JANE @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle. 2:00pm. £5.00.
Thu 12: MoonMot + Jack Banjo’s Snackwall @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 12: Ratio: Swingin’ Through the Decades @ The Forum, Darlington. 8:00pm (7:30pm doors). £10.00. A charity fundraiser.
Thu 12: Look Left @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £8.00.
Thu 12: Michael Woods @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free (donations). Acoustic blues.
Fri 13: Giles Strong Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00. Giles Strong (guitar); Dean Stockdale (piano); Mick Shoulder (double bass); John Bradford (drums).
Fri 13: Lapwing Trio @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Richard Herdman, Jude Murphy, Paula Whitty.
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: Northern Monkey Brass Band @ Hexham Lantern Parade, Bandstand, Sele, Hexham. 6:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Sharp Collective @ Dry Water Arts, Amble. 7:00pm.
Fri 13: East Coast Swing Band @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:30pm.
Fri 13: Guisborough Big Band @ Saltburn Golf Club. 7:30pm. Tickets: £15.00 (inc. pie & peas
18 comments :
Had tickets for Sonny Rollins but he cancelled and probably hasn't played since. SinAtra yes; Bird, Bud Powell and Max Roach obviously, and preferably all together (with Mingus and Diz, or Miles).
Presumably we're strictly on jazz:
Duke, Diz, Mingus, Miles (any time before his retirement), Sonny Rollins, Trane (I'd have been very young), Dolphy (very very young), Cannonball, Herbie (still time), Freddie Hubbard.
A bit obvious?
Well, I saw Trane and Dolphy together in 1961 so you may have to add or subtract a'very'!
Depends on the month Lance, though they say babies can hear music in the womb.
Wayne, Herbie, sonny rollins, Roy Hargrove, the Village people
According to Roddy Doyle's decidedly dodgy novel Hi Fidelity, men are obsessed with lists: of books, films, albums, artists, anything we can think of, preferably our top tens, so apologies ladies for being from the naff end of the species, but by all means feel free to join in.
I stumbled across this quite by chance and was initially flabbergasted, until I looked past the top ten and found it improved enormously just outside.
So here are the 14 greatest jazz artists, according to a random website, followed by my own choices.
Please note these are not necessarily my personal favourites but the ones I consider the greatest. The first four will remain constant from day to day though the order will change; the next five will remain constant but the order will vary, but the final five may vary, and not just the order.
Apologies ladies that it's all male but, had it been restricted to the last 10/ 20/ 30 years, it may have been different.
Unspecified Website:
Art Tatum
Buddy Rich
Joe Pass
Django Reinhardt
Lionel Hampton
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Charlie Parker
Billie Holiday
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
And my own:
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Louis Armstrong
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Lester Young
Sonny Rollins
Wayne Shorter
Herbie Hancock
John McLaughlin
Coleman Hawkins
Mingus
Sinatra - years ago I phoned the London box office (Albert Hall?) and was put off by the ticket price, at the time something like £40 (that's approx £200 today)
Coltrane
Monk
Louis Armstrong
Elvin Jones
Big Joe Turner - years ago a Jazz Journal reviewer urged fans to go hear Turner in a late-career residency in NYC. I thought about it...
Ellington
Wes Montgomery
Tubby Hayes
Steve - Rollins* announced his retirement years ago so you've missed out there (I saw him at Fairfield Hall, Croydon). I'm surprised you didn't see late-career Miles and how come you didn't get to see Herbie Hancock in Newcastle?
Lance - Max Roach played the Newcastle Jazz Festival and you weren't there?!
Russell: I remember Max Roach playing in Newcastle but can't remember why I wasn't there. Maybe I was there!
Digressing, I knew a guy whose lifelong ambition was to see Sun Ra. When a concert by the Arkestra was scheduled to take place in London he naturally bought a not inexpensive ticket. Unfortunately, he set off from Newcastle by train at the crack of dawn and opened the first can shortly after... The upshot is that by the time he got to the concert he was legless and slept right through it which was no mean feat at a Sun Ra concert.
The last time I saw him he was tinkling finger cymbals with a Hare Krishna group on Northumberland St.
Duke
Count B
Louis (that's A, not J)
Miles
Jack Teagarden
Artie Shaw
Charlie Parker
Art Blakey
Lester Young
Sonny Rollins
Dexter Gordon
Oooops - I forgot to include Ella and Billie! How remiss of me ......
Hi Lance
I'd choose quite a few of the iconic players already listed. But here are a few alternative players who are favourites of mine I'd love to have seen. I've included the Miles rhythm section. I have an album I've played endlessly over the years 'Full House' with this rhythm section paired with Wes & Johnny Griffin. A live recording. They are just fantastic.
Roly
Jim Hall
Rene Thomas
Ed Bickert
Richie Kamuca
Hank Mobley
Clifford Brown
Kenny Wheeler
& Miles R/Sec’n - -
Wynton Kelly
Paul Chambers
Jimmy Cobb
Rollins was due to play London Jazz Festival about four years ago but cancelled due to ill health, though I still have the ticket. Late Miles wouldn't interest me at the time since I couldn't afford box ticking and I was living in West Yorkshire when Herbie played the Toon.
One I did see too late in his career was Kenny Wheeler. Though I'm not a fan, it was embarrassing and sad.
Rollins was actually nov 2013. Where do the years go!
My Top Ten Greatest Living Jazz Artists:
1 Sonny Rollins.
2 Wayne Shorter.
3 Herbie Hancock.
4 John McLaughlin.
5 Chick Corea.
6 Ron Carter.
7 Archie Shepp.
8 Wynton Marsalis.
9 Kenny Garrett.
10 Jimmy Cobb.
I could also add/substitute, in no particular order:
Roy Haynes
Charles Lloyd
Barry Harris
Annie Ross
Benny Golson
George Benson
Pat Metheny
David Sanborn
Pete King
Cleo Laine
Whoops! Forgot Joshua Redman!
A list of ten living musicians I'd like to see (in no particular order)...
Roy Haynes
Jimmy Cobb
Maria Schneider
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Bill Charlap
Ron Carter
Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Fred Hersch
James Carter
Darcy James Argue
Thought about Roy Haynes; Benny Golson really just because he goes back so far, and Benson would certainly scrape into a top twenty.
How about only people who emerged after the sixties.
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