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Bebop Spoken There

Simon Spillett: “ Bebop and hard bop came naturally to him [Tubby Hayes]". Morning Star, March 28, 2024.

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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".

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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!"

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.

Postage

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

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.
Fri 29: True Colours @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 9:00pm. Blues, jazz & swing.

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.

Thu 04: FILM: Soul @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Thu 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 04: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 04: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 04: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Ballads Before Bedtime - May 5

Paul Edis is keeping himself busy compiling set lists in readiness for his regular lockdown sessions, all the while thinking of how best to present an abundance of material. On Tuesday evening at the late night hour of ten o'clock pianist Edis made a brief introduction...he would play six ballads without further commentary, then lights out.

Are you sitting comfortably? No! Not that comfortably. You! You on the sofa, you're nodding off, sit up straight! Hoagy's The (Virtual) Nearness of You, Gershwin's I've Got a Crush on You, our London lockdown performer kept to his word, that is he didn't say a word although an occasional glance at an adjacent screen couldn't be resisted - yes, there was a late night audience out there in Lockdown Land!

Vernon Duke's I Can't Get Started (choose your favourite vocalist/instrumentalist to 'accompany", at least in your head, this evening's lockdown performer), Ray Noble's The Very Thought of You (if it had been Cherokee taken at a lick that would have woken the slumbering audience!), Danny Boy (comp. Frederic Weatherly)then You Must Believe in Spring. Composer Michel Legrand couldn't have imagined such a glorious yet weird spring!

And that was it, six numbers expertly played by our London resident pianist. If this review has omitted any tunes the explanation is a) nodding off, hastening to add due to the affects of a third - or was it a fourth? - bottle of Old Peculier, b) a quick visit to the loo thanks to the affects of Old Peculier, c) routine incompetence. 

Thanks to an internet search engine for revealing the name of the composer. Question: Why is it that, from time to time, jazz musicians perform this least likely of 'jazz' numbers? 
Russell

1 comment :

Patti said...

Well, there you go - it's amazing what you can discover online! The composer of Danny Boy was an English lawyer, and the melody is based on a traditional Irish fiddle number called Londonderry Air. The composer had been sent the music for this by his Irish born sister-in-law in the early 1900's. Frederic Weatherly adapted the melody, and composed the lyrics we know now. I bet he didn't think it would be adopted so widely to this day by the Irish Americans, nostalgic for the Emerald Isle.

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