Bebop Spoken There

Donovan Haffner ('Best Newcomer' 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards): ''I got into jazz the first time I picked up a saxophone!" - Jazzwise Dec 25/Jan 26

The Things They Say!

This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)

Postage

18122 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 1086 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Dec. 31), 100

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 07: FILM: Blue Moon @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Dir. Richard Linklater’s biopic of Lorenz Hart.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 08: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Jazz Milestones of 1976.

Fri 09: The House Trio @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 09: Nauta @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Trio: Jacob Egglestone, Jamie Watkins, Bailey Rudd.
Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Warren James & the Lonesome Travellers @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 09: The Blue Kings @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv.). All-star band.

Sat 10: Mark Toomey Quintet @ St Peter’s Church, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:30pm. £12.00. (inc. pie & peas). Tickets from: 07749 255038.

Sun 11: New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 12: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 13: Milne Glendinning Band @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Coquetdale Jazz.
Tue 13: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Reviewers wanted

Whilst BSH attempts to cover as many gigs, festivals and albums as possible, to make the site even more comprehensive we need more 'boots on the ground' to cover the albums seeking review - a large percentage of which never get heard - report on gigs or just to air your views on anything jazz related. Interested? then please get in touch. Contact details are on the blog. Look forward to hearing from you. Lance

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Live streaming from Jack's Place #3: A Taste of New Orleans - Feb. 10

Jamie Brownfield (trumpet); Andrzej Baranek (keyboards); Ed Harrison (double bass); Jack Cotterill (drums) 

Week three of Jack Cotterill's Wednesday evening live streams focused on the cradle of jazz, New Orleans, Louisiana. For starters, Emmet Cohen's Harlem Shuffle as on Herlin Riley's New Direction album. Riley...Blakey...Wynton...LCJO...Riley, it's all about connections. And on to Jazz Me Blues, played at just about every Dixieland session up and down the land.  We're going to make you more miserable now announced Jack Cotterill...St James' Infirmary (Jamie Brownfield plungering way down in the morgue). Our host being quick to add that he actually enjoys a blues, they're not at all miserable, they're uplifting (or words to that effect). Agreed! 

A tune for duo - Brownfield, trumpet, Cotterill, drums, In the Court of King Oliver composed by W. Marsalis (on the album the late Ellis Marsalis plays piano). At the Darktown Strutters' Ball  introduced Andrzej Baranek, piano and bassist Ed Harrison, each soloing effectively before Brownfield grabbed a solo replete with numerous fleeting quotes for good measure. 

Jamie Brownfield spoke of his first visit to N'Awlins. How about this for a gig? Our trumpeter was in a band as part of the in-flight entertainment at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic on the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner scheduled service to NOLA. The perk? Four days in the Big Easy!       
     
Time to attend a New Orleans' funeral. Just a Greater Walk With Thee into a joyous second line Trombone Joe (comp. H. Riley). Time for two more, first a sprightly High Society finishing up with a swinging When the Saints go Marching In. Next week (Wednesday 17) at eight, it's a Louis Armstrong special.         
Russell
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