June
Wed 24: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 24: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 24: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 25: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 25: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Forgotten Ones & Any Quintets.
Thu 25: Edgar Ho Trio @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free. Brilliant alto sax, piano & double bass trio. Unmissable!
Thu 25: Paul Skerritt @ Angels' Share, St George's Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 2SX. 8:00pm. Free. Booking advised (0191 200 1975). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Fri 26: Finn-Keeble Group @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £9:00.
Fri 26: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 26: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 26: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 26: Clark Tracey @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Newcastle Jazz Festival. £26.00. Day 1/2.
Sat 27: OUTRI @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £13.01. 1:00-1:45pm. Newcastle Jazz Festival. Day 2/2.
Sat 27: Tees Bay Swing Band @ Richardson & Westgarth Sport & Social Club, Hartlepool. 1:30pm. Free. Open rehearsal. Note change of venue.
Sat 27: House of the Black Gardenia + Magpies of Swing @ The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 27: Mark Toomey Quartet @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 2:15-3:15pm. £13.01. Newcastle Jazz Festival. Day 2/2.
Sat 27: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 3:45-4:45pm. £13.01. Newcastle Jazz Festival. Day 2/2.
Sat 27: Rory Ingham @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 5:30-6:30pm. £19.51. Newcastle Jazz Festival. Day 2/2. Ingham w. Dean Stockdale, Ian Paterson, Dave McKeague.
Sat 27: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 27: Laura Jurd @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £26.00. Newcastle Jazz Festival. Day 2/2.
Sat 27: Brass Fiesta @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 10:30pm. Free.
Sun 28: Musicians Unlimited: Big Band Blast @ West Hartlepool RFC. 1:00-3:00pm . Free.
Sun 28: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Table reservations (0191 261 8000). Skerritt w. backing tapes.
Sun 28: Tim Kliphuis Trio @ St Mary’s Church, Wooler. 3:00pm. £18.00., £6.00. A Wooler Arts Summer Concerts event. Tim Kliphuis (violin); Nigel Clark (guitar); Roy Percy (double bass).
Sun 28: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: An Evening of Jazz @ St James’ Church, Copper Chare, Morpeth. 7:30pm. Tickets: £10.00 from 01670 788869 or 01670 519923. Mid Northumberland Chorus (MD Robin Forbes, Emma Straughan, piano) w. jazz trio featuring Edgar Ho, Oscar Ho & Dave McKeague & special guest Emily Masser. Performance inc. Bob Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass + George Shearing’s Songs & Sonnets.
Sun 28: Led Bib @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £15.00., £12.00. JNE.
Mon 29: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 30: Alan Law Trio @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 2:00pm. Free.
Tue 30: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
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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