Bebop Spoken There

Joe Alterman: ''All I wanted to do growing up was to sound like Erroll Garner playing "Poor Butterfly." I thought that was the coolest sound I'd ever heard.'' (DownBeat November, 2026)

The Things They Say!

This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)

Postage

19,105 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 969 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Nov. 14) 39.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

From This Moment On

November

Mon 16: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Jacob Egglestone, Paul Grainger, Joe Deans.
Tue 17: Grammy Season (Laubrock/Seabrook/Lovato/Rainey) @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 8:00pm. JNE.

Wed 18: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 18: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 18: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 19: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Millstone, Mill Rise, South Gosforth, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 19: Papa G’s Troves @ Newcastle Arts Centre. 7:30pm. Free (donations).
Thu 19: Marina Josephina @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. £10.60; £10.60.; £8.50 Early Bird.

Fri 20: Zoë Gilby & Andy Champion: The Music of Duke Ellington @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 20: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 20: Customs House Big Band @ Sunderland Minster. 7:30pm.

Sat 21: Pete Tanton Duo @ Awesome Frank’s, West Jesmond Metro Station, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £8.00.
Sat 21: Paul Skerritt Big Band @ The Westovian Theatre, South Shields. 7:30pm. £18.00.

Sun 22: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. ‘Celebrating Coltrane’.
Sun 22: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Groovetrain @ Pilgrim, Newcastle. 4:00pm. £18.00.
Sun 22: Red Kites Jazz @ Beat ‘n’ Track Café, High Spen. 5:00pm.
Sun 22: Knats @ The Waiting Room, Eaglescliffe. 7:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Sun 22: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Smiodair @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE.

Monday, June 01, 2020

TheShowMustBePaused

The Musicians Union have issued a call for solidarity in the face of racism triggered off by events in America.
Link.

 Read more here.

Aussie response.
Lance
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2 comments :

Russell said...

In Solidarity

The Musicians' Union is asking that the case of George Floyd - and the wider Black Lives Matter initiative - be at the forefront of people's minds on Tuesday (tomorrow, June 2). As jazz fans - black or white - it will come as little surprise that racism is ever-present in America and, indeed, across the globe. Presidents and prime ministers pedal dog-whistle racist lines with impunity - now's the time (as Bird said) to call them out. If you encounter the 'I'm not a racist but' types give them short shrift. If you don't, you are complicit in the ongoing injustice.

Monday, June 01, 2020 11:19:00 pm
Lance said...

I'm with you all the way on this, Russell, and I'd like to think that every jazz fan in the world is in total agreement. Correction, perhaps I should delete 'jazz fan' and replace it with 'person'.

In theory, the northeast has, on the surface, no obvious racial issues but, go to a football match or a local pub and the racial rhetoric is unbelievable sometimes from, I won't say friends, acquaintances who appear as respectable folk in most other respects. To these people the F word and the N word (often combined in plural) are part of their every day vocabulary. Confront them and they protest, as Russell points out, "I'm not a racist but..." the excuses vary from the "I wouldn't want one to live next door/marry my daughter/teach my kids etc. Sometimes it doesn't even change after "one of them" has saved their life in hospital.

Getting back to America - I'm still trying to work out, not only how Obama became president, but also how Trump succeeded him.

Tuesday, June 02, 2020 8:02:00 am

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