MARCH 2025.
Sat 15: Hot Teapots @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm.
Sat 15: Lagos to Longbenton + Belladonna @ Whitley Bay Big Social, Whitley Road, Whitley Bay. 2:00pm. Free. Afrobeat/jazz fusion + soul/funk/R&B
Sat 15: Creakin’ Bones @ Billy Bootleggers. Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 15: Is This Jazz? @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk. Performances by Mu Quintet, Jinjé, A Brief Utopia, John Pope & Co + André Marmot (author of Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion) in conversation + DJ sets ‘til 3:00am. ‘A Festival of New Jazz’.
Sat 15: Vintage Explosion @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Sat 15: Alligator Gumbo @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Sat 15: One Night Standards @ The White Room, Stanley. 8:00pm. £8.67 (inc. bf). Note - previously advertised Salty Dogs cancelled.
Sat 15: Howlin’ Mat @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Blues guitar.
Sun 16: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 1:00-2:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 16: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 16: Pearl Blossoms @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime.
Sun 16: Hot 8 Brass Band @ Wylam Brewery. 7:30pm. ‘Big Tuba Tour’.
Sun 16: ARQ @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 16: Air4ce @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (8:00pm doors). £12.00.; £10.00. Tom Atkinson’s all-star band (line-up inc. Lindsay Hannon & Sue Ferris).
Sun 16: Jazz Jam @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society promotion. All welcome.
Mon 17: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 17: Jamie Toms Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 18: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Laurence Harrison, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.
Tue 18: Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £13.20 & £11.00.. A JNE-Gem Arts co-promotion.
Wed 19: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 19: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 19: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, Holystone. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 20: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Nicknames.
Thu 20: Terri Green Experience @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.90.
Thu 20: Lindsay Hannon Trio @ The Harbour View, Roker, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Hannon’s ‘Tom Waits for No Man’ set.
Thu 20: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:30pm. Free.
Fri 21: Paul Skerritt @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 21: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 21: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 21: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 21: Giles Strong Quartet @ 1719, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. CANCELLED!
Fri 21: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Featuring special guest Martin Litton (piano).
We haven't had any lists for awhile so, prompted by yesterdays YouTube clip of of Johnny Desmond, I thought I'd list my 10 favourite albums by male singers.
2 comments :
Since I don't generally like vocal jazz, I've followed the Sage Gateshead/Camden Jazz Cafe model: Jazz, Blues, Soul, or - if you like - Nicholas Peyton's Black Music.
In alphabetical order:
Captain Beefheart - Lick my Decals off Baby. After the Music of the Millennium debacle on Channel 4 twenty years ago, Ken Clarke got to speak for Jazz and observed Songs for Swingin Lovers and the Captain's Trout Mask Replica were on the margins of Jazz. This was the follow-up and was his and is my favourite of all his albums.
Sam Dees - The Show Must Go On. The ultimate underground Soul Album.
Lamont Dozier - Out Here on my Own. Being part of the most successful songwriting partnership in the history of the American charts has overshadowed his remarkable run of solo albums in the seventies and early eighties.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On. Many people - myself included - consider this the greatest album ever made. For years now, whenever I've DJ'd, I've played a medley of his choons
Buddy Guy - Breaking Out. Saw him (with Junior Wells) just before and just after this album and they were amazing both times (the first time was on a bill with Albert King and John Lee Hooker) but the transformation on the latter, with his use of a solid body Fender, was stark.
Michael Henderson - Do it All. The bass player who brought the Fonk to Miles with On the Corner made four excellent soul/funk albums in the late seventies.
Luther Ingram - Do You Love Somebody. I've had a thing about (the real) Luther for many years for which I'm medicated. (My brother has Teddy Pendergrass, the great John Lias has Paul Kelly, former DJ and Kane Gang manager Phil Mitchell has Johnnie Taylor and former DJ and Record Shop owner Brian Cade has Bobby Womack - it's a soul thing).
Curtis Mayfield - Back to the World. Will we ever hear his like again?
SinAtra - Songs for Swingin Lovers. With Lance ging for this, I thought about Come Fly with Me or Wee Small Hours, but this is the one.
Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller) - Down and Out Blues. Stands with Muddy and Wolf as the original giants of Chicago Blues.
Hello Lance
Sorry I can't name ten, I don't have many male vocalist albums but if I can mention two I do have and like very much. Both 'hip song' type singers. Bobby Dorough 'Devil May Care' and Dave Frishberg 'Getting Some Fun Out of Life' - both gems! I don't have Sinatra albums but do feel some of his versions of the Gasbook songs are unsurpassed and also I like Chet Baker's singing. Some do, some don't but I think he was one of the great jazz singers. My mother had many Al Bowlly albums, mostly compilations. I like him too, his recordings with Ray Noble.
And if I can mention an all time favourite male vocal - Jack Teagarden singing 'Stars Fell on Alabama'.
Roly
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