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Ludovic Beier (Django Festival Allstars): ''Manouche means 'free man,' and gypsies have been travelers since they migrated west from India to Europe.'' (DownBeat March, 2026)

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

18395 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 259 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 30 ), 69

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

From This Moment On

March

Tue 31: Bede Trio @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Albert Hills Wright (alto sax); Finn Carter (piano); Michael Dunlop (double bass).

April

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Musicians playing classical & orchestral music.
Thu 02: The Noel Dennis Band @ Prohibition Bar, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RU. 7:00pm (doors). £10.84. Quartet plus special guest Zoë Gilby. Over 21s only.
Thu 02: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 02: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00. adv..
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: King Bees @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). Free. Chicago blues.

Friday, July 02, 2021

Live from the Flat with Rossano Sportiello #39 - June 29

(Screenshot by Russell)
Rossano Sportiello (piano); Scott Robinson (tenor sax, trumpet)

Another Live from the Flat session. From his Greenwich Village home, Rossano Sportiello chalked up number 39, make that # 39, in his weekly streamed gigs. This evening our Italian born, NYC resident played a duo set with Scott Robinson. A most compatible pairing, they've worked together many times in New York and elsewhere. Everything I Love for starters, followed by Step into My Dreams, throughout the set Robinson would feature on tenor sax with a couple of numbers on trumpet. 

Our duo agreed that The Shadow of Your Smile is one of the great tunes, they played Johnny Mandel's composition with the utmost sensitivity. Sportiello warned his decidedly mainstream patrons not to be alarmed by a 'free jazz' intro to Muskrat Ramble. What they made of it is anyone's guess, not least as the YouTube stream promptly crashed! Our host apologised, not for daring to introduce something anathema to his supporters, rather for the break in transmission. It was, apparently, one of the very few occasions when things hadn't run smoothly. Connection restored, it was back to some 'proper' jazz, the set closing with Nobody Else But Me. Russell        

Set list: Everything I Love; Step into My Dreams; Muskrat Ramble; She's Funny That Way; Everybody Loves My Baby; La Mer; The Best Things in Life Are Free; The Shadow of Your Smile; Nobody Else But Me.
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