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Bebop Spoken There

Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 2024).

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!"

Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

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

Friday, March 12, 2021

Triple CD review: Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra - The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings 1957 - 1974

This has just absolutely made my day! I know now how Columbus felt when he discovered the world was round or how I felt when I first heard The Atomic Mr Basie. This 3 CD set is up there with them and you can throw in the first sub four minute mile, the Moon landing and Steve Bruce still hanging on to his job at NUFC for good measure.

Forty tracks covering the period from 1957 to 1974 and featuring some of the greatest ever musicians from America, Europe and the UK many of whom played with the legendary Clarke-Boland Band and, indeed, Francy Boland does contribute several of the arrangements.

Edelhagen, was for many years the leading bandleader on mainland Europe providing a musical home for a whole gang of outstanding musicians as the personnel listings show. 

To even attempt to pick out just one stand-out track is impossible - perm any 1 from 40!

The musicians wail like as though there were no tomorrow and, with Brexit, maybe there isn't for today's players! 

With so many great musicians it's almost impossible to single any out one individual but, admittedly with a degree of parochialism, Derek Humble is fantastic. If you've previously thought of him as just a great lead alto player then think again! You'll be knocked out by his solos. If they haven't  got a blue plaque for him in Wheatley Hill they most certainly should have - even a statue. Lobby the council and bring this CD with you as irrefutable evidence.

If you're strapped for cash, sell some of your Basie's and Ellington's - sell your mother-in-law. 

Lance

PS: Having now reached CD3 which is still excellent with Maynard hitting the highs it doesn't quite match the other two discs. Mark Murphy sings Mc Arthur Park which, although credited to Jimmy Webb is totally different to MacArthur Park and nobody's left any cakes out in the rain - strange. Mark sounds good.

Release date March 26. Pre-order (£22.99)

CD1: Tubbes; El Mo; Mosquito’s Nightmare; Snap It; K-JD 485; Fatsination; I Remember Clifford; Blues For Bohemia; Save Your Love For Me; Till; Sweet Georgia Brown*; Sumphin; Black Velvet; Bohemia After Dark; Flookey Pootsey; KE.

Jimmy Deuchar, Milo Pavlovic, Fritz Weichbrodt, Dusko Goykovich (trumpets); Helmut Hauk, Christians Kellens, Ken Wray, Manfred Gätjens (trombones); Kurt Aderhold, Jean-Louis Chautemps, Derek Humble, Franz von Klenck, Eddie Busnello (saxes); Francis Coppieters (piano); Johnny Fischer (bass); Stuff Combe (drums). * Plus Toots Thielmans.

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CD 2: Yah-Yah-Blues; Sabbath Message; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Blues Fifteen; Shaw ‘Nuff; Beach; A Cool Day; Russian Roulette; Oliver Haydn Whigham III; 4 For Berlin; Work Song; In The Night; I Will Give You.

Hanne Wilfert, Shake Keane, Rick Kiefer, Horst Fischer (trumpets); Jiggs Whigham, Manfred Gätjens, Otto Bredl, Nick Hauck (trombones); Derek Humble, Heinz Kretzschmar, Wilton Gaynair, Karl Drewo, Kurt Aderhold (saxes); Bora Rokovic (piano); Peter Trunk (bass); Dai Bowen (drums).

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CD 3: Our Delight; Ole; Mo’ Joe; The Sentence; 4+3; Mc Arthur Park; Oni Puladi; Not Later Now; Triple Adventure; Black Eyed; Ow Dallab.

(Collective): Maynard Ferguson, Shake Keane, Benny Bailey, Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler (trumpets); Jiggs Whigham, Albert Mangelsdorff (trombones);  Wilton Gaynair, Karl Drewo, Manfred Lindner, Ferdinand Povel (saxes); Bora Rokavic, Gordon Beck, Rob Franken (piano); Peter Trunk (bass); Gary Bogel (guitar); Philly Joe Jones, Tony Inzalaco, Ronnie Stephenson (drums); Mark Murphy (vocal).

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