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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).

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

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

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

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

Postage

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

Thu 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 4:00-6:00pm. Free.
Thu 23: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Bar Loco, Newcasatle. From 6:30pm 'til late. Free. Newcastle University Jazz Orchestra jam session. All welcome (students & non-students).
Thu 23: Kerrin Tatman + John Garner & John Pope @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 23: Sunna Gunnlaugs & Julia Hülsmann @ Sage Gateshead. 8:00pm. A two-piano gig. A Sage Gateshead-JNE promotion.
Thu 23: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano.
Thu 23: Sleep Suppressor @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00., £8.00. adv. Upstairs.
Thu 23: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

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.

Monday, April 20, 2020

Lindsay Hannon: Lockdown Session - April 20

Lindsay Hannon (vocal/ukelele).

Surely the most difficult musical task is to sing unaccompanied. Alone, without guitar or keyboard to keep you on track, it can be so easy for intonation to aft gang agley as R.Burns* once said. 

Lindsay Hannon has no such worries - every note she hits is pitch perfect even when singing some low down dirty blues she's in tune apart from when the song demands that she isn't.

Tonight her subject was death - a subject we're very familiar with these days although it has been a vital part of music since time immemorial. A grand opera wouldn't be a grand opera if the hero or heroine didn't pop their clogs in the final scene. 

This wasn't grand opera but it was grand singing in any genre.

Travellin' Shoes, one of two Bessie Jones' numbers opened the stream, preceded by a slurp of a potion from the Allendale Brewery. If you're going to sing the blues you've got to live the blues although it has to be said that Lindsay's pad and the Allendale booze looks to be infinitely preferable to drinking muddy water and sleeping in a hollow log.

Another Man Done Gone. I can't comment too much on this one as Facebook had done gone spasmodically into freeze mood. The unfrozen parts sounded good.

More Bessie Jones with Death Have Mercy.  I must admit that, prior to Lindsay, I was unfamiliar with Bessie Jones. Lindsay drawing attention to the gospel/folk singer who died in 1984  prompts me to investigate further.

Drown in my Own Tears - Janis Joplin. Some might query Lindsay's statement that Joplin never had a band that gave her the backing she needed. Others might wonder if any band could. Nevertheless, Lindsay did the job with just her own ukulele for backing - our gal don't need no holding company!

Lindsay's back next week at the same time (7:15pm) with more beer and blues.
Lance.

*Robbie Burns, the Scottish poet and not to be confused with local bluesman Ray Burns although he too may have  made a similar remark and both men often appear to have shared the same tailor.

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