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Abbie Finn: "Even though there's a lot of great work being done to promote women in jazz, I still come up against some attitudes! I pulled up at a recording session with my drums in the car and the studio owner said, 'I'm sorry, this space is reserved for the drummer!'" - (Jazzwise April 2023).

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!"

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15229 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 15 years ago. 248 of them this year alone and, so far, 61 this month (March 20).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 24: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 24: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Fri 24: FILM: Mo' Better Blues @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Fri 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Scarth Hall, Staindrop, Co. Durham. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Fri 24: Archipelago + Bulbils @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.

Sat 25: Vermont Big Band @ Walker Community Centre, Walker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Fundraiser for Benfield Juniours Football Club. Hot food available, BYOB.
Sat 25: John Logan & Friends @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rat Pack, Motown etc. 8:00pm. Free (donations).

Sun 26: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm.
Sun 26: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 26: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 26: Outlines @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. JNE promotion (upstairs).

Mon 27: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.

Tue 28: Paul Skerritt @ The Rabbit Hole, Hallgarth St., Durham DH1 3AT. 7:00pm. Paul Skerritt's (solo) weekly residency.
Tue 28: Sanaz Lavasani Trio @ Black Swan, Newcastle Arts Centre. 8:00pm. £12.00 (£10.00. adv).

Wed 29: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 29: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 29: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 29: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.

Thu 30: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 2:30-4:30pm. £2.00. All welcome.
Thu 30: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. Back to 1:00pm stomp off. Free.
Thu 30: '58 Jazz Collective @ Hops & Cheese, Hartlepool. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 30: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Harbour View, Sunderland. 8:00pm.
Thu 30: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman's Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Album review: Brian Woodruff Sextet - A Centering Peace

Michael Rodriguez (trumpet); Alan Ferber (trombone); Lisa Parrott (alto, soprano saxes); Pete McCann (guitar); Matt Clohesy (bass); Brian Woodruff (drums, compositions) + Elizabeth Lohninger (vocals on tks 1,3,9).

A delightful, swingy set that doesn't set out to change the world but, instead, paints a picture of the world as seen by drummer, leader, composer, arranger, lyricist, Woodruff.

The soloists, and that means everyone, are all on the money. Although Ferber and McCann are the only two whose work I was familiar with, the others are on the same wavelength. Rodriguez is one of the most lyrical trumpet players I've heard since Chet or early Miles. Lisa Parrott too has a cool sound that still retains an emotional aura about it and it's easy to understand her high placing in DownBeat's Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition (now Rising Star) category back in 2016 - on baritone.

McCann can swing with best of them and as he proves on War Paint - a hard rocker - he is not averse to a spot of shredding. Woodruff comments that he "deliberately placed Pete in the clean-up spot." 

Ferber is blessed with a sound many lesser trombone players can only dream about. For the past seven years he's been up there in the DownBeat ratings running on to place third in the 2020 Rising Star category of the Critic's Poll.

Clohesy is an in-demand bassist who, alongside leader Woodruff keeps everything moving.

Lohninger has a delicate, wistful voice that does justice to Woodruff's lyrics.
Now available via the usual suspects, Lance

The Welcome Song; What Happened; A Centering Peace; War Paint; Pirouette en Dedans; Every Detail Minding; Undertow; Freeway Doctor East; King Size Blues.

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