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Art Blakey: "You [Bobby Watson] don't want to play too long, because you don't know they're clapping because they're glad you finished!" - (JazzTimes, Nov. 2019)..

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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".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

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!"

Postage

15848 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 855 of them this year alone and, so far, 53 this month (Sept. 18).

From This Moment On ...

September

Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 22: Brief Encounter @ Bardon Mill Village Hall, Northumberland. 7:00pm. Tickets: £10.00. adv from 07885 303166; £12.00. on the door. Chris & Veronica Perrin improvising to a screening of the 1929 'Jazz Age' silent film Piccadilly (Dir. Ewald André Dupont).
Fri 22: Paul Edis & Graeme Wilson + Three Tsuru Origami @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Fri 22: Crooners @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 22: Abbie Finn's Finntet @ Traveller's Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.

Sat 23: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Tanfield Railway, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. Free. A '1940s Weekend' event.
Sat 23: Jason Isaacs @ Stack, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free.
Sat 23: Andrew Porritt & Keith Barrett @ Cullercoats Watch House, Front St., Cullercoats NE30 4QB. 7:00pm.
Sat 23: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig. Country blues.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm.

Tue 26: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.

Wed 27: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 27: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 27: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Alice Grace Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 28: Faye MacCalman + Snape/Sankey @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 28: Zoe Rahman @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 28: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Speakeasy @ Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £15.00. A Southpaw Dance Company presentation. Dance, audio-visuals, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, swing dancers etc.
Thu 28: Mick Cantwell Band @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Ace blues band.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Friday, August 14, 2020

Ewan Bleach's Virtual Duet w Jeff Barnhart - August 13

Ewan Bleach (clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax, vocals); Jeff Barnhart (piano, vocals)

A London-Connecticut pairing of Ewan Bleach and Jeff Barnhart. The duo talked jazz when they met at a recent edition of the Classic Jazz Party on North Tyneside, kept in touch and, thanks to the worldwide pandemic, decided to play a few tunes together via the internet. Bleach calls suburban London home, Barnhart calls Mystic home. Mr B wins that one! Yes, Mystic, Connecticut is home to Barnhart and during lockdown the virtuoso American pianist has cultivated an impressive beard! 


The photo shows a questionable dress sense on either side of the Atlantic. Barnhart's excuse was living in a house without aircon in 90+° temperatures, Bleach (wearing shorts) was unable to explain himself, saying he was simply following the lead of his American friend. 

An apposite number to begin...The Virus Drag with Barnhart taking the vocal on his own composition. Throughout the live stream the sound balance wasn't the best. At times Bleach's various reeds were heard to good effect with Barnhart's piano a little low in the mix, on other occasions it was the other way round. It didn't help matters that at the London end of the tin cans and piece of string set-up Bleach couldn't help but fiddle (unnecessarily) with the mic. 

A couple of Harry Warren numbers (including The Rose of the Rio Grande), Fred Fisher's Georgia Rockin' Chair and a number recorded by Red Allen - In the Chapel in the Moonlight - made for a varied selection with the duo sharing vocal duties. Barnhart took the vocal on When Did You Leave Heaven? with Bleach playing tenor sax, which, on occasion, he likes to do. Bleach said the number was another favoured by Red Allen. 

Fred Rose's The El Rado Shuffle as perfomed by Jimmie Noone and Chicago's Fat Babies the best part of a century apart, then Old Fashioned Love (comp James P Johnson/Cecil Mack) and that was about it save for Bleach reprising Georgia Rockin' Chair to round off the hour.

Jeff Barnhart has made many extended visits to Britain. The pandemic put paid to any prospect of a 2020 tour but, all things being well, JB will be back next year with gigs in the Bebop Spoken Here heartland very much on his itinerary. Similarly Ewan Bleach hopes to tour the length and breadth of the British Isles with Frog and Henry. 
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