Sadly, this idea of clubs that are willing to present a diverse range of music has more or less faded away. Although the upstairs room in The Bridge in Newcastle, which has hosted many splendid jazz sessions for quite a while, is also the location of the Bridge Folk Club an institution that has been running for over 60 years and is the second oldest folk club in the UK. As far as I know only my Bebop Spoken Here reviewing colleague AA and myself are likely to be found at both sessions from time to time.
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Fri 20: Edison Herbert Trio @ 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: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 1:00-3:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 20: Baghdaddies @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 20: Smokin’ Spitfires @ Platform 1, East Bedlington Community Centre. 7:00pm.
Fri 20: Pete Tanton’s Christmas @ 1719, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. CANCELLED!
Fri 20: Alligator Gumbo @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 20: Abbie Finn’s Finntet @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 20: Brass Fiesta @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 10:30pm. Free.
Sat 21: Lindsay Hannon Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £15.00. ‘Swinging with Christmas Songs’.
Sat 21: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 21: Jackson’s Wharf Xmas Party @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 7:00pm. Free. Featuring the New ’58 Jazz Collective.
Sat 21: Brass Fiesta @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 10:30pm. Free.
Sun 22: Hot Club du Nord @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £15.00. + bf. Xmas party. SOLD OUT!
Sun 22: Red Kites Jazz @ Gibside Chapel, nr. Rowlands Gill. 1:00pm. Admission charge applies.
Sun 22: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 22: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Revolutionaires @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Superb rhythm & blues outfit.
Sun 22: Laurence Harrison, Paul Grainger & Mark Robertson @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Line-up TBC.
Sun 22: The Globe Xmas Party @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Live music (musicians TBC).
Sun 22: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Zerox, Sandhill, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors).
Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!
Thu 26: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. TBC.
Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.
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Sunday, August 02, 2020
Album Review: Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Sadly, this idea of clubs that are willing to present a diverse range of music has more or less faded away. Although the upstairs room in The Bridge in Newcastle, which has hosted many splendid jazz sessions for quite a while, is also the location of the Bridge Folk Club an institution that has been running for over 60 years and is the second oldest folk club in the UK. As far as I know only my Bebop Spoken Here reviewing colleague AA and myself are likely to be found at both sessions from time to time.
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21 comments :
I think this is an impressive short review. Without hyperbole or agenda, it nails much about what renders the album fascinating. I like the way it recognises the eclectic sources and styles that Dylan draws on, without becoming obsessed with 'spot the quotation'. It's also clear on Dylan's tendency to obscure the narrator and focus of a song, thus enabling multiple interpretations. Thank you.
I second the above comment.
That line about "Rough and Rowdy Ways" being the musical equivalent of "Chronicles" is the best--and most succinct--review of this album that I have seen.
“I’ve Made Up My Mind”... is about Jesus, the “traveling man”. Bob never left the Faith, contrary to media speculation (show the proof!)
Re-read the lyrics placing Bob’s Savior as his muse. I’m not the 1st to interpret this conclusion. Bob has made “hidden” allusions to JC in several songs over the last 3-4 albums. Keep an open mind if you are cynical about this. He’s a man of deep mystery & Biblical references run through every song on this album. Never met him, wish I could, but we’ll definitely meet in the Hereafter. Peace & Love
I so agree, and we can go back to many God songs disguised as love songs, particularly after his Christian period.
Bob's been a religious poet all the way through. Last year I posted a line on his FB page: "Triplicate: Prayer using the lyrics and melodies of pop songs to Pray in."
A day or two later I got a Bob Dylan likes your comment...
Joe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/109178289X/
Another book where you will find much you can mine that remains present in recent work is
Bob Dylan's Hibbing. Hibbing : EDLIS Café Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781091782891
1. Dylan, Bob, -- 1941- -- Childhood and youth. 4. Dylan, Bob, -- 1941- -- Homes and haunts -- Minnesota -- Hibbing.
Bob Dylan's origins Toolkit
And people don't think I should put prog rock on a jazz site.
When I used to go on the Amazon discussion forums, Bob Dylan worshippers were always the worst: worse than the classical nerds, worse than the Beatlemaniacs. Any tiny criticism and they'd tell people they shouldn't be on a music forum. I used to call him Dylot and they'd lose their mother£v(%!n minds.
Nice one, Steve!
Well that's told them - the Dylanistas have been silenced!
I had a listen to this last night - good album, quite bluesey in parts, but not jazz.
P.S. I am not a Dylanista - I have two of his albums, this one and a greatest hits compilation.
I like Bob Dylan and have had about fifteen of his albums over the years, but he's ridiculously over-rated by a small number of people, and I don't think a jazz blog is an appropriate venue for yet another Bob Dylan echo chamber, with like-minded people constantly re-affirming their beliefs. and the rest of us who don't agree are just not as intelligent as them. Why can't people just like him alongside dozens and hundreds of other artists, without thinking he's the messiah.
I think any connection with jazz is tenuous - though I don't disagree with Lance putting it on - and the only thing he really has in common with Miles is that they both always land albums in all of these ghastly, ridiculous top hundred albums lists: Miles gets one and Bob Dylan can get as many as four.
In polar contrast to Steve T, it was a lovely surprise to read this thoughtful piece bringing together my favourite artist, my native city and jazz. Music is a broad church: my late Dad, Danny Veitch (who you very kindly paid tribute to on this site on his death) could never get away with Dylan but we would often share music of all kinds that we both liked. And there are many, many connections between Dylan and jazz, not least the fact that he was discovered by John Hammond Jr. If you're not convinced, listen to the lovely Charlie Sexton guitar on Melancholy Mood or songs such as If Dogs Run Free or Moonlight. Or even the recent Murder Most Foul, which specifically pays tribute to Bud Powell, Stan Getz and Art Pepper.
Don't put words in my mouth; I objected to the echo chamber, not the post. Jazz is a broad church but doesn't include Bob Dylan, or you'd literally have to include everything. I'm always sceptical when people say they listen to all kinds of music; the worst I ever heard was someone saying they listen to everything from the Beatles to Neil Young to Bowie to Bruce Springsteen who - along with Bob Dylan and without splitting hairs - are all much the same thing as far as I can make out, and I've no doubt somebody could connect them all to jazz. I could certainly connect the Fabs and Bowie to Mingus and Monk respectively.
OK, marra...
Nay botha.
I wrote the original comment on this post to thank the writer for an intelligent and non-partisan review. But the nature of that review hasn't stopped folks such as the apparently very angry Steve T wanting to have a go at Dylan worshippers even though none of them appear to have taken part in this discussion. As far as I can make out, having decided that Dylan, The Beatles, Neil Young, Bowie and Bruce Springsteen are all 'much the same thing', Steve instructs us that Dylan should not be discussed on this site because he doesn't belong to the 'broad church' of jazz, while The Beatles and Bowie might belong even though they do 'much the same thing' as Dylan. Dylan famously once sang: 'Don't criticise what you can't understand' and I will take his advice as I certainly don't understand Steve T's rules as to who qualifies for consideration on this site.
As the author of the review, I would like to thank the people who have made comments on the content of the review. I appreciate your comments.
Don't put emotions in my head; It's sympathy I feel for anybody who worships anybody; it's pure media construction, unhelpful for the individual and music in general. They spend all that time in the echo chamber, reading, watching, and not listening to anything else while they scour the entire works of the 'genius', digesting the top 100 albums lists and generally taking notice of people who are also in the echo chamber and, when they come across people outside the chamber, their pent up anger overspills
Once again, I don't object to the review, but the excuse to bring a non jazz echo chamber to a jazz site, when they're already all over the net. There are many jazz greats who never attract any discussion.
I don't think Beatles and Bowie should be discussed as jazz either, which was precisely my point. If Bob, Beatles and Bowie, then what next: Lonnie Donegan, the BeeGees and Elton John; or have you decided they're different.
For what it's worth, I think Bob Dylan's debut is a fair stab at blues for a white boy - not Beefheart or Watermelon Slim - but that rare - nay extinct - thing, an under-rated Bob Dylan album. That doesn't mean we should get all hot and bothered about Yer Blues or Gene Jeanie, and I'd recommend a hundred - nay a thousand - albums by Black American Blues Artists, who don't get the same media attention, ahead of it.
If everything that comes from blues should be included, perhaps it should be called Everything but Classical Music Spoken Here.
In my opinion, your points in the above comment are sensible and valid, Steve T. The thing is, our very nature as humans means that we tend to think we're right. And it saddens me how, in these comment sections, which are intended as friendly discussions of a post, people seem to get so angry so quickly. One thing that we have to accept when we publish our views is that however annoying it may be, readers will 'put words in [our] mouths' and 'put emotions in [our] heads'. After all, that's something that all Dylan reviewers do - and he's been known to get pretty furious about that from time to time!
I remember Douglas Adams saying that somebody had asked Bob Dylan why he'd used a particular word, expecting some insight into his genius, and he confessed it was because it rhymed.
Nice comment, Steve and kinda paraphrases your point very neatly.
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