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Bebop Spoken There

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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!"

Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Friday, April 03, 2020

Tonight's Blue Note: Herbie Hancock - My Point of View

Donald Byrd (trumpet); Grachan Moncur III (trombone); Hank Mobley (tenor sax); Herbie Hancock (piano); Grant Green (guitar); Chuck Israels (bass); Anthony Williams (drums).
(By Lance)

Once upon a time, there was a small shop in South Shields called The Handy Shop. It was situated in Walpole St.,  just off Frederick St, in the Laygate area of the town which, at the time, was quite a cosmopolitan area. Indian and Chinese restaurants, delicatessens and a mosque etched in legend after a visit by the then Heavyweight Champion of the World Muhammad Ali.

I don't suppose Ali had time to visit The Handy Shop but if he had he would have thought he'd stepped into Aladdin's Cave. Well that's what it seemed like to me - particularly when it came to records.

I spent many a Saturday morning, and many a few coins of the realm, browsing their racks of second hand discs. 78s, EPs, and LPs. I don't know if the shop survived into the CD era as, by then, I was working in a record shop myself and I was a late convert to CDs anyway.

The reason for this preamble is because tonight's Blue Note was the very first Blue Note I ever bought and it still bears the faded shop stamp - "Goods Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Records, Record Players, Radios Etc." There were a lot of etceteras in the shop...

It was also the first time I'd heard Herbie Hancock and Anthony Williams. The latter, now better known as Tony, was 17 at the time and about to join Miles Davis who, I guess, headhunted him (Boom! Boom!). 

Hancock, I later discovered, had already hit pay-dirt with Watermelon Man from his previous album Takin' Off and My Point of View followed up very much in the same vein. Soulful grooves mixed with straight ahead hard bop made for a compelling listening experience at least for me. As they say, you never forget the first time and this was my first Blue Note.
Lance

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