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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, May 15, 2021

Ten albums by Sinatra and a few associated memories. Part Four

6. No One Cares. Capitol 1959. Arr. Gordon Jenkins. this and 7. Only the LonelyCapitol 1959 arr. Riddle, brings us back into Wee Small Hours' territory. The two albums are inextricably shared despite the different arrangers. No one ever sang a saloon song like Frank and only Billie could match him for emotion. Brilliant as Ella was, although she could probably out-swing either, when it came to laying your heart on your sleeve she was a distant third. Neither Frank or Billie went down the yellow brick road that Norman Granz paved for Ella with the songbook series - in fact, Sinatra and Granz were considerably less than friends.

According to no less an authority than Larry Adler, a guy who played the mouth organ, Cole Porter didn't like Sinatra either nor Frank's take on his songs. Sinatra did record many compositions by the great Broadway composers - Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Berlin and Rodgers - but he was truly at at his best singing songs written by drinking buddies such as Jimmy Van Heusan, Sammy Cahn and Johnny Mercer as well as the jazzier Harold Arlen.

I bought both albums from a second hand store in Newcastle's Bath Lane; No One Cares for 15/- (75p) and Only the Lonely for 20/- (£1). Presumably the latter album was dearer because it had Riddle waving the baton or perhaps because the songs were better - maybe.

Judge for yourself.
Lance

No One Cares: When no one Cares; A Cottage for Sale; Stormy Weather; Where do you go?; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You; Here's That Rainy Day; I Can't Get Started; Why Try to Change me Now?; Just Friends; I'll Never Smile Again; None But the Lonely Heart.

Only the Lonely: Only the Lonely; Angel Eyes; What's New?; It's a Lonesome Old Town; Willow Weep for me; Good-Bye; Blues in the Night; I Guess I'll Have to Hang my Tears Out to Dry; Ebb Tide; Spring is Here; Gone With the Wind; One for my Baby.

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