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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.

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.

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.

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Dan Walsh: LIVE Concerts at Home, Newcastle University - July 16

Dan Walsh (banjo, guitar, vocals)

WARNING! BANJO PLAYERS DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK BECAUSE YOU WILL HOY* YOUR BANJO IN THE TYNE (OR NEAREST RIVER)

During the pandemic LIVE in King's Hall concert performances have taken the form of online LIVE Concerts at Home. Today's seventh and penultimate Newcastle University YouTube term time concert presented British banjo virtuoso Dan Walsh in a solo performance spanning some forty five minutes.

Clawhammer banjo specialist Dan Walsh played a hugely entertaining set of tunes mainly on banjo with one blues number on guitar which had a tangential link to the jazz world. Bella Fleck's Big Country got the show under way and what a show it would turn out to be! The Light of Day, the first of several Walsh originals, Plan B, a set of tunes ('jigs', said Walsh),  yes, the man with a nice line in self-deprecation demonstrated his undoubted virtuosity. 

A visit to India inspired a fusion piece - The Whiplash Reel - played on banjo yet sounding sitar-like. Tremendous! This week's King's Hall Concert at Home performer switched to guitar to play Robben Ford's Up the LineJigs, reels, blues and bluegrass, it appeared nothing was beyond Walsh. 

Still a Town (banjo and vocals) referenced Walsh's home town of Stafford. Many other references came easily to the easy-going Walsh; the Coen Brothers, re-runs of Tops of the Pops, gigging in care homes and his time studying on the folk degree course at Newcastle University. Walsh recalled fondly a regular Tuesday night folk session in a Newcastle city centre pub - that'll be the Haymarket on Percy Street, Dan. And with that, a set, or pair, of tunes - Tuesday Night Session - closed a marvellous lockdown session courtesy of Newcastle University.       

Hoy = to throw.

It's likely that Dan is unaware that in the 1980s Robben Ford performed at the Newcastle Jazz Festival at Northern Stage (then the Playhouse) just around the corner from the Haymarket pub and but a stone's throw from King's Hall, Armstrong Building (see photo).  
Russell 

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