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Bebop Spoken There

Trevor Mires: ''My mum is a Dean Martin fan: I'm not, so I would grab my skateboard and get out of the house whenever I heard "Everybody Loves Somebody, Sometime." ". (Jazzwise, April 2025).

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

17972 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 293 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (April 22).

From This Moment On ...

April 2025.

Wed 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 23: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 23: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. CANCELLED!

Thu 24: Mary Coughlan @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £33.80. Blues, jazz etc.
Thu 24: Darlington Big Band @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 25: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT! Duo performance.
Fri 25: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 25: Andrea Vicari Trio @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); Russ Morgan (drums).
Fri 25: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 25: Red Kites Jazz @ Land of Oak & Iron, Winlaton Mill. 6:00-9:00pm. Free.
Fri 25: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. at the door; £14.35. (inc £0.35 bf) online, in advance.
Fri 25: Struggle Buggy @ The White Room, Stanley. 7:45pm. Rhythm & blues.
Fri 25: Paul Skerritt Big Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £20.30., £18.00. All-star big band.
Fri 25: Andrea Vicari Trio @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); Russ Morgan (drums). An Opus 4 Jazz Club event.

Sat 26: Durham Alumni Big Band @ Number One Bar, Darlington. 12 noon. Free (donations).
Sat 26: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 26: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ Elvet Methodist Church, Durham. 7:30pm. Tickets: £12.00. + bf. Duo performance.
Sat 26: Neil Cowley Trio @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. £22.50.
Sat 26: Pete Tanton & the Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 27: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: Andrea Vicari Trio @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. Vicari (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); John Bradford (drums).
Sun 27: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Paul Susans, Russ Morgan.
Sun 27: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 27: JustKing Jones @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.50. JustKing Jones (alto sax, soprano sax); Jordan Williams (piano); Jason Clotter (bass); Malcolm Charles (drums). Ace NYC outfit!
Sun 27: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 27: Swing Manouche @ Warkworth Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00. Tickets from 01665 711388.
Sun 27: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Xenopoulos, Edis, Ken Marley, Russ Morgan.

Mon 28: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 29: ???

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

Friday, July 10, 2020

Paul Edis: Live stream #17 - July 10

Paul Edis (piano, vocals)

This week the Vietnamese branch of PEAS* upped sticks out of Saigon to the beach resort of Mūi Né...lucky for some. Meanwhile back in Ol' Blighty the rest of us were out and about dodging showers before settling down with a cuppa to watch and listen to week seventeen (!) of Paul Edis' Friday lunchtime live stream concert series. 

How Deep is the Ocean? pondered pianist Edis. 12,100 ft, apparently (our host obtained the answer to the question thanks to an internet search engine). From Irving Berlin to Harold Arlen's Come Rain or Come Shine (in Ol' Blighty definitely rain and shine and yet more rain, probably too darn hot in Mūi Né) with Edis singing for the first and only time today. Edis thought the only time he'd played Jobim's Felicidade was as a duo with Alan Barnes. So, for a second time, Edis played it today as a solo piece.

John Lewis' elegant Skating in Central Park (Edis making reference to the Bill Evans-Jim Hall recording) oozed class, as did The Best Things in Life Are Free (written for the 1927 musical Good News). An 'in-the-style-of' original number - McCoin a Phrase - had been performed previously, Edis identifying one occasion as being a gig he played with the Sue Ferris Quintet at Newcastle's Bridge Hotel. BSH has reviewed at least one other Edis gig at which this composition was played (Darlington Jazz Club, October 2017) and at the time your reviewer took a stab at the title...McCoin a Phrase. The odds are that was, and is, an incorrect spelling! McCoyne? McCoy Tyner being the composer's inspiration, alternative suggestions as to the correct spelling of the title are welcome. 

Cole Porter's I Concentrate on You prompted online comment about the tune's alternative titles...it's a musicians' thing. BSH Editor-in-Chief LL requested Blue Champagne. Edis confessed he was unfamiliar with the number...join the club! Jimmy Dorsey recorded it in 1941, Manhattan Transfer in 1975. Its inclusion in today's set list helped maintain Edis' proud record of not having repeated a number during seventeen weeks of lockdown performances. A question to those listening intently, at the end of the tune did Dr Edis quote Mean to Me?

Speaking of titles and their spelling...Coltrane-ing or Coltran-ing or, who knows? Some years ago this Edis composition was performed at a Lindy Hop gig! This afternoon we heard it played as a solo piano piece. Coltrane...Lindy Hop, why not?! The correct spelling of the title? Answers on a postcard! Two numbers left, Edis' Regret, followed by another Cole Porter tune, My Heart Belongs to Daddy. It had been another hour of great piano playing, more next week (one o'clock Friday). 

 Paul Edis Appreciation Society.
Russell

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