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November
Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). Tickets: £25.00. inc. buffet. A Gatsby themed evening.
Thu 30: Jools Holland's R & B Orchestra @ Newcastle City Hall. 7:30pm.
Thu 30: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. Guest band night: Mark Toomey Quintet (Mark Toomey, sax; Paul Donnelly, guitar; Jeremy McMurray, keys; Peter Ayton, bass; Mark Robertson, drums). 9:00pm.
December
Fri 01: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 01: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 01: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 01: Paul Skerritt @ All Saints’ Church, Eastgate, Co. Durham. 7:00pm. Xmas Tree Fest.
Fri 01: Alligator Gumbo @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 01: Nu Sound Brass @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Fri 01: Struggle Buggy w. Jim Murray @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Blind Pig Blues Club. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 02: Paula Jackman's Jazz Masters @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00.
Sat 02: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. £25.00. Enrol at: www.jazz.coop.
Sat 02: Abbie Finn Trio @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm.
Sat 02: Tenement Jazz Band @ John Marley Centre, Newcastle. Swing Tyne Winter Social. £8.00. + bf. Advance purchase only, no admission at the door. BYOB. Lindy hop workshop from 11:00am. £39.00.
Sat 02: Zoë Gilby Quartet @ The Masham, Hartburn Village, Stockton. 7:00pm. Feat. Noel Dennis.
Sat 02: Classic Swing @ The Nuthatch, 9 - 11 Bedford St, Middlesbrough TS1 2LL. 7:00-9:00pm. Classic Swing in trio format.
Sat 02: Paul Skerritt w. Danny Miller Big Band @ Westovian Theatre, South Shields. 7:30pm.
Sat 02: Vermont Big Band @ Whitley Bay FC. 7:30pm. £10.00. (inc. hot buffet). Tickets available from WBFC’s Seahorse pub club house.
Sat 02: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Ponteland Social Club, Northumberland. 7:30pm. £18.00 (inc. stotties & soup supper). A fundraiser for Hexham Constituency Labour Party.
Sat 02: Tom Remon & Laurence Harrison @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. Xmas party night inc. buffet & special raffle. £3.00.
Sat 02: Groovetrain @ The Unionist Club, Laygate, South Shields. 9:00pm.
Sun 03: The Central Bar Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £10.00. The Central Bar Quartet plays Lou Donaldson’s Gravy Train. Featuring Jamie Toms.
Sun 03: Paul Skerritt @ Smith’s Arms, Carlton, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:00pm.
Sun 03: Johnny Hunter Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 03: Jam session @ The Schooner, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 04: Northern Monkey Brass Band @ People’s Kitchen, Bath Lane, Newcastle. From 5:30pm. On-street gig supporting the work of the People’s Kitchen charity. Wrap up warm! Donate!
Mon 04: Michael Young Trio w Lindsay Hannon @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm. Free.
Mon 04: James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £8.00.
Mon 04: Durham University Jazz Orchestra + Durham University Big Band @ Durham Castle DH1 3RW. 8:30pm. £6.00.; £5.00. concs; £4.00. DSM. ‘Jazzy Christmas’.
Tue 05: Customs House Big Band @ All Saints Church, Cleadon. 7:00pm. Concert in the church hall. BYOB.
Tue 05: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Sid White. The best free show in town!
Sunday, October 04, 2020
Ray Shenton's Tuba
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- Album review: Dave Brubeck - Lullabies
- Christmas may be coming ...
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- Margaret Aitchison
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- Jazz FM 2020 Awards Announced
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- 12,000 not out and still bopping...
- David Gray Flextet Live (and online) @ The Globe -...
- An Ellington Big Band Special - Sunday at seven
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- Paper Moon Duo @ Prohibition Bar - Oct. 24
- Lest we forget - as if!
- That 'must have' is now a 'have got'!
- Vinyl here, vinyl there...
- On Air Abbie - Saturday
- Kellock kicks off label's UK Launch
- Film review: Ronnie's @ Everyman Cinema - Oct. 23
- Album Review: Keith Jarrett – Budapest Concert
- Nigel Price Organ Trio w. Vasilis Xenopoulos - Liv...
- Keith Jarrett
- Big screen, small screen Friday (Oct. 23)
- Album review: Abbie Finn Trio - Northern Perspective
- Album review: House of the Black Gardenia - The N...
- Leeds' Latest
- Album review: Fred Hersch - Songs From Home
- René Thomas
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- Q & A with Dave Weisser & Jude Murphy - Part 1 of 3
- More Obituaries
- Adrian Cox: South of the Border - Oct. 18
- Paul Edis Trio @ Gosforth Civic Theatre - Oct. 17
- The Charts
- The Hooch, it's the business!
- TERRY DAY ARCHIVES COMPOSITIONS, IMPROVISATIONS, S...
- Diehl, Harriott & Hutchings on the airwaves (Satur...
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- John Garner live streaming from the Lit & Phil - O...
- But The Band Plays On - Birmingham, Sandwell & Wes...
- Top keyboardist reveals what lies Between the Lines
- Soweto Kinch live streaming from Ronnie Scott's - ...
- Preview: Clare Teal Trio @ Petworth Festival - Oct...
- JAZZFUEL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ MUSICIAN SURVEY
- Big Band Bash - Oct. 14
- Tune In to Sara's In Tune Home Session
- The Matt Mackellar Story - so far ... Part 3 of 3.
- The new jazz clubbing scene
- Early...with Jools
- The Matt Mackellar Story - so far... Part 2 of 3.
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- Jazz Violin Practice Class Review
- The Matt Mackellar Story - so far ... Part 1 of 3
- Single review: Monocled Man - Bernabe Jurado
- Let's hear it for the girls!
- Financial help for North East theatres
- From Bratislava to NYC and onto Chicago
- A Handful of Gongs
- Film preview: "Ronnie's"
- More from Ronnie's.
- Album review: Paul Edis Trio - Snakes and Ladders
- Gin House Blues
- Preview: Born in Chicago - Sky Arts, Sunday (Oct 11)
- Album review: Rick Simpson - Everything All of the...
- Album Review: San Gabriel 7 Featuring Femi Knight ...
- Jason Rebello Trio - Live Stream @ Ronnie's - Oct. 8
- Coastal Sound's Big Band Bash - Oct. 7
- Jazz FM Awards 2020 Nominees Announced
- Album review: Ella Fitzgerald - ELLA: The Lost Ber...
- Abbie Finn Tells it like it is
- If I Were A Bell - Patchwork Jazz Orchestra
- CD Review: Clifton Davis with The Beegie Adair Tri...
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- Abbie Finn tickets going...going...almost gone!
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- Ray Shenton's Tuba
- Adrian Cox's Sunday Service: The Music of Omer Sim...
- Paul Edis & Graeme Wilson: Live Stream @ the Lit &...
- Lee Bates @ Prohibition Bar - Oct. 2
- Toad's Washerwoman - A film by Kate and Mike Westb...
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4 comments :
Wonderful Story , thank you so much for sharing it with us .
Although there are a lot older tubas in captivity. I used my little H B Jay c1909 for many gigs as it was easier to carry than my huge Conn recording bass. There's a really ancient Belgian tuba in the attic. Rita Wheatley gave me John's old tuba ( c1910) which I had restored - including a missing valve! Some of my friends regularly play instruments from the 1860s.
However, Ray Shenton was without doubt the hottest player in the North East.
I need some clarification here. Despite working in the music industry for over 30 years, I had little to do with tubas. However, in my youthful brass band days, there were Eb and BBb basses that were referred to as tubas and, somewhere along the line I came across references to a bombardon. To further complicate the issue, sousaphone players were often listed as playing tuba. Words of wisdom please Carstairs.
One of the first tubaswas a long trumpet used the Romans! A valved tuba was invented in 1835 by Wieprecht. It quickly replaced the old Serpents and Ophicleides. They come in all shapes and sizes. By the 1860s the tuba family ranged from the Bass in C or Bb ( a tenor tuba) pitched the same as a tenor trombone down to 18ft BBb Contrabass. There was some snobbery in England where the player of an Orchestral tuba in F looked down on the Brass/Military bandsman's Eb and Bb bass - often termed a Bombardon. A circular bass or helicon , with the bell behind the player's left shoulder was often used in Military bands. The Sousaphone is simply a circular bass with the bell pointing forwards - Americans usually refer to it as a 'tooba'.
Many of the early Jazz musicians played brass bass, often doubling string bass and even bass Sax. I'm sure you could name many of them, from Wellman Braud, Billy Taylor to Red Callendar.
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