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Bebop Spoken There

Art Blakey: "You [Bobby Watson] don't want to play too long, because you don't know they're clapping because they're glad you finished!" - (JazzTimes, Nov. 2019)..

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Postage

15848 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 855 of them this year alone and, so far, 53 this month (Sept. 18).

From This Moment On ...

September

Sat 23: Tyne Valley Big Band @ Tanfield Railway, Gateshead. 2:00-4:00pm. Free. A '1940s Weekend' event.
Sat 23: Jason Isaacs @ Stack, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free.
Sat 23: Andrew Porritt & Keith Barrett @ Cullercoats Watch House, Front St., Cullercoats NE30 4QB. 7:00pm.
Sat 23: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A 'Jar on the Bar' gig. Country blues.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 7:00pm.

Tue 26: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.

Wed 27: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 27: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 27: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Alice Grace Quartet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm. All welcome.
Thu 28: Faye MacCalman + Snape/Sankey @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 28: Zoe Rahman @ Jesmond United Reformed Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:30pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music event.
Thu 28: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm.
Thu 28: Speakeasy @ Queen's Hall, Hexham. 7:30pm. £15.00. A Southpaw Dance Company presentation. Dance, audio-visuals, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, swing dancers etc.
Thu 28: Mick Cantwell Band @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm. Free. Ace blues band.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Mornington Lockett livestreaming from the 606 Club - March 20

Mornington Lockett (tenor sax); Henry Lowther (trumpet); Mike Gorman (piano); Geoff Gascoyne (bass); Mark Fletcher (drums).

The 606 Club is one of those iconic London venues that everyone seems to love. It manages to combine the virtues of the other London venues without any of the negatives. I won't go into them here except to say that, like all the great  jazz clubs from Newcastle to New Orleans, the top-line is the music which is as it should be.

A brief introduction introduced the band and then it was all systems go.

Mornington played a Jobim number that told me he was 'on song' - as if he ever wasn't!

Henry Lowther joined Mornington for, seemingly, a little known Wayne Shorter number that Shorter had played with the Jazz Messengers. It was a title of few letters and, as Mornington isn't the most articulate of announcers - he makes the late Chris Barber sound like a BBC news reader - I didn't catch the title. However, when it comes to tenor playing he can articulate with the best of them, maybe even better!

Tonight he was flying and Henry, that G.O.M of British jazz (coming up to 80),  was his co-pilot. Two numbers and already I'm whooping and hollering!

Time to cool down and, for the second time today, What's New? Henry's probably played it n+ times and yet he still makes it sound like he's exploring the delights of the old Bob Haggart/Johnny Burke tune for the first time and savouring every moment.

Scott LaFaro's Gloria's Steps was followed by Trane's Cousin Mary. ML was going for the record on this one and he looked as though he was going to smash it but then the screen started 'buffering'. I guess his fingers had been moving faster than the speed of light!

Three Chick Corea numbers took us out: Crystal Silence; Windows and Got a Match?

Mornington and Henry may have led the charge but Gorman, Gascoyne and Fletcher were with them all the way. Stars in their own right.

A super session in a week that has heard some stupendous tenor playing from around the capital and tonight kept that flag flying.

Lance

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