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Bebop Spoken There

Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 2024).

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

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 30: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 30: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.

Tue 31: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 12 noon-2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Tue 31: Lapwing Trio @ Wallington (National Trust), Cambo, Morpeth NE61 4AR. 12 noon & 2:00pm. Admission to site £19.00.
Tue 31: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Tue 31: Archie Brown & Friends @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00-8:00pm. Free.

January 2025

Wed 01: ???

Thu 02: ???

Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: John Gregory @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar.

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

Sunday, July 05, 2020

Dom's Saturday Piano Truth - July 4

Dom Pipkin (piano/vocals)

This was "Super Saturday" or so they say. Well, for some of us, it's a super Saturday every week - especially around 9:00pm when Dom Pipkin takes us on a roller coaster piano ride of boogie, blues and barrel-house.

Nobody does it better - well nobody living that is!

New Orleans here we come with Fats Domino's One For the Highway; Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Summertime's Just a State of Mind (good choice); Summertime (bad choice); Let it Roll; Jelly Roll's The Perfect Rag; Sweet Lorraine; Moon River; My Street, Your Street (translation); Headin' South; Professor Longhair's She Walks Right in and Sleep. This latter number seemed a good idea after what had been a busy day at the office.



Dom's back again on Wednesday and next Saturday.

In the meantime, blues lovers can hear some of the great pre-lockdown blues performers from Leeds this evening at 7:00pm.

Let Steve Crocker tell it like it is:
"A final feature on blues performances by singers and instrumentalists who have appeared at Seven Arts, Inkwell and the Chapel Allerton Festival

Sarah Gillespie, Lucy Zirins, Alice Zawadski, Kyla Brox, Colin Hodgkinson, Paul Corry, Big Boy Bloater, Steve Phillips, Al Morrison's Blues Experience and John Taylor and the Blues Dudes. Plus the raffle for some (blue) Wensleydale cheese... Get those 12 golden bars a rollin'...

One final lockdown show is at a slightly later time so that people wanting to check out the live jazz at Seven Arts in the afternoon."

Link here https://youtu.be/cu3m9XUCNtM

Lance

2 comments :

Anonymous said...

Lance many thanks for drawing my attention to Dom Pipkin. Is their anyone better in that style of piano. I doubt it.
Really enjoyed the video.
Ron Ainsborough

Lance said...

Hey Ronanonomous - good to hear from you. Next time just post as Ron!

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