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Postage

17328 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 612 of them this year alone and, so far, 17 this month (Sept. 5).

From This Moment On ...

September

Sun 08: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 08: Giles Strong Quartet @ BAA Fest, Brownrigg Lodges, Bellingham. 2:40pm.
Sun 08: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 08: Graham Hardy’s Eclectic Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 09: Mark Williams Trio @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 09: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 10: ???

Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.
Thu 12: The Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Pete Tanton & co.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Donna Hewitt, Bill Watson, Dave Archbold, Adrian Beadnell, Mark Hawkins.

Fri 13: Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Two pianos, two pianists! SOLD OUT!
Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Dilutey Juice @ Old Coal Yard, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £11.00. adv..
Fri 13: Ray Stubbs R & B All-stars @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Classic blues.

Sat 14: Jeff Barnhart’s Silent Film Fest @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 14: Customs House Big Band w. Ruth Lambert @ St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Gardens, Spennymoor DL16 7LR. 7:00pm (6:45pm doors). Tickets £10.00. from the venue or tel: 01388 813404. A ‘BYOB’ event.
Sat 14: Emma Wilson @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. £12.00. Acoustic blues.
Sat 14: Rat Pack - Swingin’ at the Sands @ Billingham Forum. 7:30pm.

Monday, December 14, 2020

Remembering Clark Terry.

1958. Odeon Cinema, Newcastle: Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra.

The first time I'd heard the Ellington band live and the first time I'd heard Clark, What a band and what a trumpet section! Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Harold Baker and Ray Nance. I don't think Duke ever had a better one.

1973. San Sebastian Jazz Festival: Clark Terry and his Orchestra.

An open air concert in Plaza de la Trinidad. It was raining. The band was enclosed and the famous French jazz critic Hugues Panassié was sipping an aperitif protected from the rain by a huge umbrella - I wasn't! Did the rain spoil the concert for me? No way, I simply ensured that I was as wet on the inside as I was on the outside with the aid of liberal doses of cuba-libra. 

This was one of the best big bands I've ever heard or seen. Alongside Clark in the trumpet section was another great trumpet player, Richard Williams. The saxes included Jimmy Heath, Ernie Wilkins, Arnie Lawrence and Chris Woods. Jimmy Willkins and Richard Boone were among the bones whilst piano, bass and drums were Horace Parlan, Eddie Jones and Grady Tate. I was on a high and the white rum only partly contributed to it.

1983. North Sea Jazz Festival. The Clark Terry Octet

Clark was a regular at the Dutch festival which was, back then, held in Den Haag. This particular year he was with a mix of Dutch and American musicians (see photo)  - Ray Bryant (piano); Clark Terry (flugel); Major Holley (bass); Piet Noordyk (alto sax); Ferdinand Povel (tenor sax); Harry Edison (trumpet); Al Grey (trombone), Gus Johnson (drums).

A lot of big hitters there but, amazingly, apart from Clark, the one who really set it alight was hometown boy Noordyk - one of the best alto players I've ever heard!

That, I think was the last time I heard Clark Terry live. Fortunately, made a lot of fine records before he left us in 2015 at the age of 94 although, to be honest, I never quite got away with his Mumbles recordings but that was the only time.

Apart from the Ellington's, there's an Emarcy album, Jam Session, where he locks horns with Clifford Brown and Maynard Ferguson and doesn't settle for third place. His Don't Worry 'Bout Me on the ballad medley is pure magic.

May he still be remembered in another hundred years time and every day in between ...

Lance

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