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December
Thu 12: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay. 12 noon. £27.00. (inc. three -course meal).
Thu 12: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:00-6:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Thu 12: Stuart Turner @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. Guests: Jeremy McMurray (keys); Mark Toomey (alto sax); Donna Hewitt (tenor sax); Kevin Eland (trumpet); Ron Smith (bass).
Fri 13: Dean Stockdale Trio @ 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: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 3:00-5:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Corbridge. 7:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Customs House Big Band @ Stocksfield Community Association. 7:00pm. Featuring Ruth Lambert.
Fri 13: Paul Edis & Friends: A Jazzy Xmas @ St Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 13: Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £19.00. + bf. First night of two.
Fri 13: Ransom Van @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 13: Boys of Brass @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 9:00pm. £10.00.
Sat 14: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:15pm. Free but ticketed.
Sat 14: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm.
Sat 14: Red Kites Jazz @ Staiths Café, Autumn Dr., Gateshead. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 14 Lapwing Jazz Trio @ Three Sheets to the Wind, Alnwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 14: Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £19.00. + bf. Second night of two.
Sat 14: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 15: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 12 noon. £8.50. Xmas party feat. Musicians Unlimited + Customs House Big Band. SOLD OUT!
Sun 15: Paul Edis & Friends: A Jazzy Xmas @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 2:00pm.
Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Mitch Laddie Band @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Superb blues power trio.
Sun 15: Leeway @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 15: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Paul Edis & Friends: A Jazzy Xmas @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Sun 15: Alligator Gumbo @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 16: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 12 noon. £9.95. ‘Festive Turkey Dinner’. Book now: 0191 266 8137.
Mon 16: Paul Edis & Friends: A Jazzy Xmas @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Tue 17: Paul Edis & Friends: A Jazzy Xmas @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm.
Tue 17: BBC Big Band @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm. ‘A Swinging Xmas’.
Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.
Tue 17: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 7:45-9:35pm. Free.
Wed 18: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 18: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 18: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 18: Hot Club of Heaton @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘third Wednesday in the month’ session.
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
Sunday Night @ The Globe: Harry Keeble Quartet live stream - Jan. 31
Album review: Melbreeze - I Love Paris
Victor Feldman meets Flanagan and Allen
An Apex Blues Sunday Service for Jimmie Noone - Jan. 31
Awakenings - " Dexter's Tune " Tommaso Starace Duo - Sax/Piano
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Caro Emerald live streaming from Amsterdam - Jan. 30
Caro Emerald (vocal); Jeroen
Vierdag (bass); Wieger Hoogendorp (guitar); Gino Groeneveld (perc.); Pyke
Pasman (keys).
Back in 2013 I saw Caro at Sage
Gateshead and it was an absolute knockout. A tremendous show that wasn't quite jazz
whilst, at the same time, wasn't quite not jazz if you follow
me. Tonight, along with a couple of thousand others (a figure that rose to over
seven thousand), we waited in eager anticipation. We kept on waiting, and
waiting. There was music playing, the images on screen were doing a
three-legged dance and the sound was abysmal. Several gave it the thumbs down
and left.
Kansas Smitty's play Heavy Weather - Jan. 30
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio. This Sunday's Playlist
Joe Webb live streaming from his European hideaway - Jan. 30
Hilton Valentine (1943 - Jan. 29, 2021)
The Johnny O'Neal Trio live streaming from Smalls, NYC - Jan. 29
Johnny O'Neal (piano, vocals); Mark Lewandowski (double bass); Charles Goold (drums)
Friday, January 29, 2021
KSTV: Will Arnold-Forster Trio - Jan. 29
Rico Tomasso remembers Keith Nichols - Jan. 29
Album review: Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine - Mazel Tov Kocktail!
Playtime Livestream from Lockdown Programme
We have been live streaming all year… including doing remote improvs during lock down which have been a beautiful journey into new skills.
Link to previous streams (slow loading)
Tom Bancroft
Jazz Epistle Jonas Gwangwa dies at 83
Thursday, January 28, 2021
KSTV: Not the Concert by the Sea - Jan. 28
(Screenshots by Ken Drew)
Well, it was billed as a playback session of Erroll Garner's famous recording - Concert by the Sea. However, either the tide must have rolled back or they couldn't find any telephone directories for Joe Webb to sit on* (not that he would have needed them) so it was back to last night's formula of piano, guitar and bass with Webb being replaced by Deschanel Gordon and Dave Archer the common denominator linking the two trios.
Album review: Tommaso Starace - The Power of Three
It was back in 2011 when Starace first made an impact on the BSH radar when he played a quartet gig at The Chilli. This JNE gig had been fraught with problems. Venues cancelling at the last minute, dates having to be changed, you name it, it happened.
However, after Dave Weisser and the Take it to the Bridge crew agreed to step down and make the room available to JNE it was all systems go with the end result being one of those I was there moments.
Since that memorable night, CDs by Starace were, and still are, eagerly anticipated and they have never failed to delight.
Live streaming from Jack's Place - Jan. 27
Caro Emerald to live stream this Saturday
This Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 8:00pm CET*, Caro Emerald will perform a livestream concert, available for free via her YouTube and official website.
Caro will be playing an acoustic set with bass player Jeroen Vierdag, guitarist Wieger Hoogendorp, percussionist Gino Groeneveld (Altin Gün, Jungle by Night), and Pyke Pasman (Jungle by Night).
Album review: Shai Maestro - Human
Early in the year perhaps, but a contender for album of 2021 already! A sumptuous studio recording from the aptly named Shai Maestro, who is now firmly in the top bracket of international composer/pianists. Maestro famously turned down a scholarship to Berklee in favour of tenure with Avishai Cohen (bass) and is now a star in his own right on the evidence of this remarkable recording from ECM.
His previous ECM outing The Dream Thief (2018) was rapturously received, and his band here builds on the trio of fellow Israeli Nehemya and Peruvian Roeder with the addition of New York based Dizack on trumpet. Any fears that the interplay and nuance of the trio would be “brassed off” are unfounded. Dizack is a player of great subtlety and sensitivity, more in the breathy Arve Henriksen than Christian Scott mould, giving this quart
Preview: Harry Keeble Quartet live streaming from the Jazz Co-op (Jan. 31)
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Album review Laura Toxværd - Calling – Graphic Notation in 3 Parts
The number on this album is NEWJAIM1 so I guess this this must be the first album of the admirable New Jazz and Improvised Music Recording label setup during the height of the current pandemic giving musicians the creative opportunity to be able to record whilst their live options are severely limited.
The album Calling – Graphic Notation in 3 Parts was recorded in February 2020 live from the Copenhagen Winterjazz Festival just before lockdown began there. The music is improvised using a graphic score developed by Laura Toxværd. Joining the composer are pianist Jacob Anderskov with whom she recorded a duet album some years ago and alto player Maria Faust.
KSTV: Will Barry Trio - January 27
(Screenshots by Ken Drew)
Not a lot I can say about tonight that hasn't already been said about these three fine players on other evenings, in different settings, at this most charismatic of venues.
The emphasis tonight was on drummer-less piano trios such as Ahmad Jamal, Peterson, Cole etc. and in Barry, Archer and Sach it would be a struggle to find three musicians more suited to the task.
Preview: Scotland's Makar on Bessie Smith (Jan. 30)
Jazzing around from Middlesbrough to Jesmond via Montreal by Peter Wardle
I don't recall going to any live music events other than brass band concerts playing in Albert Park. My introduction to jazz music was some 60 years ago watching the film Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Stand out performances I still remember were from Anita O'Day and Jimmy Giuffre on tenor with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. I have been a jazz fan ever since!
New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2) with Paul Edis - Jan. 26
We've been here before. During 2020 Paul Edis' Ballads Before Bed became required late night listening. Now, in the early weeks of the new year, our London resident pianist has resurfaced with a fortnightly (Tuesday) series focussing upon new, original material, some rarely performed pieces from an ever-expanding songbook.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
KSTV: Adrian Cox Quartet live stream - Jan. 26
Album review: Cowboys and Frenchmen - Our Highway
New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2)
Monday, January 25, 2021
Antonio Forcione live stream from Ronnie Scott's - Jan. 25
Album review: John Pope Quintet - Mixed With Glass
Having seen this band a number of times live and being a big fan it was with some excitement and trepidation when I placed their inaugural CD Mixed with Glass into the player. I needn’t have worried within just a few bars I knew this album was a winner and that it was going to deliver the musical experience I had hoped for.
The CD was recorded over a weekend in October on the New Jazz and Improvised Recordings label partially set up to compensate for the cancellation of the 2020 Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music.
Album review: The QOW Trio
Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor sax); Eddie Myer (bass); Spike Wells (drums).
The QOW Trio assembled, originally, to explore their love of Sonny Rollins’ piano-less trios of the 1950s but expanded their interest to encompass other big voiced tenorists with a full phat sound. The best sax trios have a rhythm section that pushes and prods the leader on and never allows the listener to wonder if there should be another horn or a pianist in the band. You need a monster bassist and a propulsive drummer, just like the QOW Trio. There is occasional space here, but the sax echoes into it and there is no sense of anything missing. This is music for the middle of a pandemic, recorded in one afternoon, where the band have shut out whatever lockdown we were in at the time and have convened to just blow. Cobwebs have no chance.
The Glenn Crytzer Quartet in the year 1931 - Jan. 24
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord live streaming from The Globe - Jan. 24
Jimmie Noone in "Block Busters"
Album review: A second review* of The Royal Bopsters - Party of Four
A master class of vocal jazz artistry, The Bopsters project vocalese in tight, intricate harmonies on a disc containing drama and multi-layered harmonies that draw much inspiration from classic vocal groups of yore. These include Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (The Bopsters' 2015 debut CD, included guest spots from both Ross and Hendricks), the Hi Los, and The Manhattan Transfer. POF exudes a deeply swinging amalgam of vocal virtuosity with precise but fully breathing arrangements that effectively combine the yin and yang of this discipline.
The Sunday Service celebrates Johnny Dodds - Jan. 23
Saturday, January 23, 2021
Album reviews: Gemma Sherry - Let's Get Serious & The Songs I Love
KSTV: Live Playback. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers "Buhaina's Delight" - Jan. 23
Aycliffe Radio Playlist for tomorrow (Jan. 24 @ 6:30pm)
Nina Simone Why?; Tees Valley Jazzmen.
Tom Stevens pick: J.J. Johnson & company; Buddy Rich Big Band; Syd Lawrence.
George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald; Louis Armstrong; Ben Webster; John Pope Quintet; Al Jolson; Art Blakey + Terence Blanchard; Benny Green; Tees Valley Jazzmen - Ace In The Hole.
Tribute to USA and inauguration of the new President: American Patrol; Sydney Bechet; Wynton Marsalis Talking Democracy; JALC (Jazz at the Lincoln Center) with Wynton Marsalis; JALC + Wynton Marsalis.
There'll be some (radio) changes made (starting Sunday 24)
www.ayclifferadio.co.uk.
Friday, January 22, 2021
The Summertime of my discontent
Album review: Tricotism - Nostalgia
Deschanel Gordon live streaming from Kansas Smitty's - Jan. 22
Rico's Popup Louis with Nick Dawson - Jan. 22
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- Sunday Night @ The Globe: Harry Keeble Quartet liv...
- Album review: Melbreeze - I Love Paris
- Victor Feldman meets Flanagan and Allen
- An Apex Blues Sunday Service for Jimmie Noone - Ja...
- Awakenings - " Dexter's Tune " Tommaso Starace Du...
- Caro Emerald live streaming from Amsterdam - Jan. 30
- Kansas Smitty's play Heavy Weather - Jan. 30
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio. This Sunday's Playlist
- Joe Webb live streaming from his European hideaway...
- Hilton Valentine (1943 - Jan. 29, 2021)
- The Johnny O'Neal Trio live streaming from Smalls,...
- KSTV: Will Arnold-Forster Trio - Jan. 29
- Rico Tomasso remembers Keith Nichols - Jan. 29
- Album review: Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine - ...
- Playtime Livestream from Lockdown Programme
- Jazz Epistle Jonas Gwangwa dies at 83
- KSTV: Not the Concert by the Sea - Jan. 28
- Album review: Tommaso Starace - The Power of Three
- Live streaming from Jack's Place - Jan. 27
- Caro Emerald to live stream this Saturday
- Album review: Shai Maestro - Human
- Preview: Harry Keeble Quartet live streaming from ...
- Album review Laura Toxværd - Calling – Graphic Not...
- KSTV: Will Barry Trio - January 27
- Preview: Scotland's Makar on Bessie Smith (Jan. 30)
- Jazzing around from Middlesbrough to Jesmond via M...
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2) with Paul Ed...
- KSTV: Adrian Cox Quartet live stream - Jan. 26
- Album review: Cowboys and Frenchmen - Our Highway
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2)
- Antonio Forcione live stream from Ronnie Scott's -...
- Album review: John Pope Quintet - Mixed With Glass
- Album review: The QOW Trio
- The Glenn Crytzer Quartet in the year 1931 - Jan. 24
- Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord live streaming from T...
- Jimmie Noone in "Block Busters"
- Album review: A second review* of The Royal Bopste...
- The Sunday Service celebrates Johnny Dodds - Jan. 23
- Album reviews: Gemma Sherry - Let's Get Serious & ...
- KSTV: Live Playback. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messeng...
- Aycliffe Radio Playlist for tomorrow (Jan. 24 @ 6:...
- There'll be some (radio) changes made (starting Su...
- The Summertime of my discontent
- Album review: Tricotism - Nostalgia
- Deschanel Gordon live streaming from Kansas Smitty...
- Rico's Popup Louis with Nick Dawson - Jan. 22
- Jason Moran: James Reese Europe - The Harlem Hellf...
- Rachael & Alex playback Paul & Gerry. Two of a Min...
- Luca Manning live streaming from Ronnie's: a Tribu...
- Keith Nichols (1945-2021)
- Malcolm Griffiths (1941 - 2021)
- JASON MORAN – THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS - Free Stre...
- John Russell (1954 - 2021)
- Album review: Jeff Benedict Big Big Band - The Wea...
- Kansas Smitty's play Hoodoo Man Blues and more - J...
- Exam Board Reinstates Jazz on Curriculum
- Harmonica Stories
- Album review: Sam Newbould Quintet - Bogus Notus
- Preview: Junior Wells at Kansas Smitty's (Jan. 20)
- KSTV: Alec Harper Trio playback Sonny Rollins Tri...
- R.I.P. Alan Smith (trumpet)
- R.I.P. Junior Mance (1928 - 2021)
- Ivo Neame: Live stream from Ronnie Scott's - Jan. 18
- Album review: Will Glaser - Climbing in Circles
- Album review: Wayne Alpern w. The Dorian Wind Quin...
- R.I.P. Sammy Nestico
- Dean Stockdale Trio live streaming from The Globe ...
- A Sunday Service for Pete Fountain - Jan. 17
- Chris Ingham - Hoagy's Children: The Pianist-Singe...
- Prestigious Award for Maurice Summerfield
- Album review: Mike Scott - Collecting Things
- KSTV: NCW plays Bright Size Life - Jan. 16
- Meanwhile, Back at Carnegie Hall ...
- Sound of Cinema with Terence Blanchard - Jan. 16
- A Wake-up Call for Bop Van Winkle
- Album Review: Lorenz Grey – Liberty Hotel
- Film review: One Night in Miami
- Tonight's KSTV Livestream - Jan. 15
- Rico's Popup Louis - Jan. 15
- Alec Harper live streaming from Kansas Smitty's - ...
- Keith Crombie - Gone but not forgotten
- Lucia Cadotsch / Kit Downes / Ruth Goller Livestre...
- The London Supersax Project livestreaming from Ron...
- Preview: Tonite - Supersax!
- Daryl's going to jail!
- Album review: Binker and Moses - Escape the Flames
- Film preview: One Night in Miami
- New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings
- Playback session @ Kansas Smitty's. Will Barry Tri...
- Moses Boyd on Miles Davis' Nefertiti
- Album review: Zoöphyte - Out of the Cave
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music.
- Jalen sings the Blues @ Kansas Smitty's - Jan. 12
- Book review: Peter Jones - This is Bop. Take 2
- News Flash! - Paul Edis Streams Again and it's Ton...
- Dean Stockdale Trio to live stream from The Globe ...
- Eddie Blair (1927 - Dec. 26, 2020)
- Tom Seminar-Ford live streaming from Ronnie's - Ja...
- RIP Howard Johnson
- An Etude from Greg Abate on Facebook - Jan. 11
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