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Sat 20: Record Store Day…at a store near you!
Sat 20: Bright Street Band @ Washington Arts Centre. 6:30pm. Swing dance taster session (6:30pm) followed by Bright Street Big Band (7:30pm). £12.00.
Sat 20: Michael Woods @ Victoria Tunnel, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Acoustic blues.
Sat 20: Rendezvous Jazz @ St Andrew’s Church, Monkseaton. 7:30pm. £10.00. (inc. a drink on arrival).
Sun 21: Jamie Toms Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 21: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 21: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Holy Grale, Durham. 5:00pm.
Sun 21: The Jazz Defenders @ Cluny 2. Doors 6:00pm. £15.00.
Sun 21: Edgar Rubenis @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Blues & ragtime guitar.
Sun 21: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 21: Art Themen with the Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. +bf. JNE. SOLD OUT!
Mon 22: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 23: Vieux Carre Hot 4 @ Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval. 12:30-3:30pm. £12.00. ‘St George’s Day Afternoon Tea’. Gig with ‘Lashings of Victoria Sponge Cake, along with sandwiches & scones’.
Tue 23: Jalen Ngonda @ Newcastle University Students’ Union. POSTPONED!
Wed 24: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 24: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 24: Sinatra: Raw @ Darlington Hippodrome. 7:30pm. Richard Shelton.
Wed 24: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 24: Death Trap @ Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Rambert Dance Co. Two pieces inc. Goat (inspired by the music of Nina Simone) with on-stage musicians.
Thu 25: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 25: Jim Jams @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Jim Jams’ funk collective.
Thu 25: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 25: Death Trap @ Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Rambert Dance Co. Two pieces inc. Goat (inspired by the music of Nina Simone) with on-stage musicians.
Thu 25: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm.
Thu 25: Kate O’Neill, Alan Law & Paul Grainger @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 25: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Richie Emmerson (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Garry Hadfield (keys).
Fri 26: Graham Hardy Quartet @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 26: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 26: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 26: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 26: Paul Skerritt with the Danny Miller Big Band @ Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Fri 26: Abbie Finn’s Finntet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Kansas Smitty's Xmas Eve Miracle on 34th Street
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- Joe Williams-What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
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- BSH New Year's Honours list
- Happy New Year to LJN from BSH
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- Liane Carroll live stream - Dec. 30
- That was the year that wasn't
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- A Cool Yule @ Ronnie's - Dec. 28
- A collection of collages from Ken
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- Glenn Crytzer live streaming from NYC - Dec. 27, 1927
- Art Pepper, Blue Wisp Big Band, Tabasco Pete Webb.
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- R.I.P. Jeff Clayton and Stanley Cowell
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- One O'Clock Jump - Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists
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- Ricky Riccardi - Heartful of Rhythm
- Time and Place @ the 606 - Dec. 17
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- Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Online - Dec.30
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- The Last (virtual) Jam of the Year @ The Black Swa...
- Live Streamin' @ the 606
- Born and died this day (Dec. 15)
- Soul Music: What a Wonderful World - Radio 4 Extra
- Remembering Clark Terry.
- Clark Terry Jazz 625
- Tribute to Clark Terry Born December 14, 1920 Ha...
- Keep On Keepin' On - The Clark Terry Story (born 1...
- Film preview: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- McCreadie tops international chart
- Francis Tulip Quintet livestreaming from The Globe...
- Whispering Voices from the Gosforth Hotel
- Album review: Kristiana Roemer – House of Mirrors
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band Lockdown Live stream #6 ...
- Sunday Service with Adrian Cox & Will Barry - Dec. 13
- PERFECT FOR 10. Paul Edis/Vasilis Xenopoulos Quart...
- Kansas Smitty's Goes to Collage (courtesy of Ken D...
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- Aycliffe Radio Playlist - Sunday Dec. 13
- Remembering Sam Walker
- Alec Harper Quartet livestreaming from Kansas Smit...
- Rico's Popup Louis - Dec. 11
- Tonight @ 9:00pm - The Royal Bopsters On Ronnie Sc...
- Hexagonal - The Temple of Juno
- The World is our oyster
- Live streaming Christmas with the Ronnie Scott's A...
- Kansas Smitty's House Band live streaming from Kan...
- 4.5m ÷ 12 = ✔✔✔
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- A message from Daryl Sherman
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- Album review: Jonathan Parker - The Remainder
- Live stream preview: Francis Tulip Quintet @ The G...
- Album review: Collette Cooper – Lost
- Where there's a Will there's Kansas Smitty's - Dec. 8
- Gosforth Civic Theatre says "Thank you".
- Best Albums of 2020 (Editor's choice)
- More Online Radio
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2 comments :
This absolutely made my Christmas. Amazingly I hadn't seen the film before, or if I had, it was lost in my early post womb memories. A great film, a fantastic story-line that helped to make this Xmas what we all wanted it to be. The cynicism of the commercial interests in the film that, in a sense, exposed the darker side of the season of good will only made the film even more appealing. But, social issues aside, this is surely one of the best Xmas movies ever.
To have, on top of that, Giacomo and the band's backing made it even better. This was just so beautiful a mix of film and music. I hope Twentieth Century Fox show their approval with a big fat cheque rather than a law suit!
First time for me too, and wasn't it wonderful! Couldn't get it to work on the TV, and didn't want to watch on the Mac sat on an office chair - so decided to chill on the couch and watch on the phone - and it was just as enticingly appealing. The music was just perfect, so right for the mood and the different settings of the film - Giacomo is obviously a massive fan!
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