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Sun 08: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 08: Giles Strong Quartet @ BAA Fest, Brownrigg Lodges, Bellingham. 2:40pm.
Sun 08: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 08: Graham Hardy’s Eclectic Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 09: Mark Williams Trio @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 09: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 10: ???
Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.
Thu 12: The Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Pete Tanton & co.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Donna Hewitt, Bill Watson, Dave Archbold, Adrian Beadnell, Mark Hawkins.
Fri 13: Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Two pianos, two pianists! SOLD OUT!
Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Dilutey Juice @ Old Coal Yard, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £11.00. adv..
Fri 13: Ray Stubbs R & B All-stars @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Classic blues.
Sat 14: Jeff Barnhart’s Silent Film Fest @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 14: Customs House Big Band w. Ruth Lambert @ St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Gardens, Spennymoor DL16 7LR. 7:00pm (6:45pm doors). Tickets £10.00. from the venue or tel: 01388 813404. A ‘BYOB’ event.
Sat 14: Emma Wilson @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. £12.00. Acoustic blues.
Sat 14: Rat Pack - Swingin’ at the Sands @ Billingham Forum. 7:30pm.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
RIP Mac Rae - Oh Didn't he Ramble!
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In a recent lengthy chat with Mac we talked about the good times and the not such good times on the jazz scene.
Mac: “I hope we have enough time to do a gig together for old times sake”
B: “Absolutely, Mac! Get practicing!”
Mac: "Will do. You have certainly opened the door to the past and you know something I would do it all over again.”
B: "Of course we would, Mac! I'll search for that pic in the loft! Ta ta for now!”
Mac: Take care, Brian”
The saddest news. Rest in peace Mac Rae, you were a true legend.
Some of the nicest gigs I've ever been to were at Gateshead Fell Jazz Club with Rae Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band. I used to take my mum and she enjoyed the music so much. The band, with Mac and Dave and the team, beautifully captured that egoless ensemble style and it was a really lovely thing. Good memories.
I'm very sorry to hear this news, Lance. I knew Mac for the best part of 50 years, and probably first played with him at the Redhills Hotel in Durham with the Savoy Jazzmen (Mac played drums then). Mac was a very funny man, and I remember him telling me that when he was in the Merchant Navy he used to play Boogie-Woogie on the ship's piano, but in heavy weather the piano stool, which had wheels on it, would roll away from the piano, leaving great, but regularly spaced, gaps in his performances (he actually could play Boogie-Woogie, too!). A bit later he played in the Eddie Tindle dance band with me after Kevin Elliott left, and he also used to dep for the Savannah Syncopators on occasion; he couldn't read a note, but could listen - an attribute that few drummers have, in my experience! When he was younger and his hair was still black, he told me that he had been asked if he would play D.H. Lawrence in a film (he didn't!), and you can see the resemblance in Brian Bennett's photo.
Mac was always a nice guy, and quietly devoted to playing the music he loved. I'll certainly miss him.
He was a one off. Lovely lovely man, so talented and I still remember the time we were playing in a restaurant in Corbridge, the one in the old station. Mac was on trumpet, eyes closed, away in New Orleans, when an express train rattled past the window at high speed and he nearly fell off his chair.
RIP Mac
Sad news, I met him at the Bell & Bucket, South Shields.
Sorry to here that Mac is gone. I will miss the ideas that he had on the Clarinet and the musical style of the Rae Brothers will also be missed. WWe did like their music and what he told me to do is to keep on playing music and keep on playing the Clarinet. But their New Orleans jazz will be missed. R.I.P. Mac
I first met Mac nearly 50 years ago. At the time I think he was a fitter at Clarke Chapmans ( and did a couple of 'guvvy jobs' for me when I was restoring my steam fire engines). A great raconteur and versatile musician who loved New Orleans jazz above all.
We had a whole weekend at Ryhope Engines for National Music Day. Mac did a whole session of Boogie-Woogie! Over the years we played together in a few bands and whether it was drums, trumpet, clarinet and even alto he was not fazed by whatever tune was called.
I heartily regret his passing, not so long after brother Dave.
Lovely to read all these tributes. I feel priveleged to have known and played with Mac. He was devoted to the New Orleans style and an absolute treasure.
Very sad news . He only needed to play a few notes and it changed the way you played. ( On clarinet, drums or trumpet).
I remember standing at the side of the stage in the Darlington Arts centre Garden Bar when I was about 10 years old . Always rammed with lots of dancers , it was filled with smoke and and swimming in beer. I was transfixed by Mac’s drumming. Dressed in a white shirt, he was staring me right in the eye and bouncing up and down like a jockey shouting , “Get in there !Get in there !”
I don’t think I’d ever seen a grown up do anything so passionately and it seemed like the most exciting thing .. to play New Orleans jazz.
He was a master of the esoteric art of New Orleans jazz.
I remember fondly a jam session 'le Beuof' at the Dixie days fest in Le Havre. Mac was there with the WJRK, I was there with the Wakefield Arms Jazz Band. We ripped the place up. Mac on Drums and then piano. It went down so well, musically spot on, but fun fun fun. The world needs a few more like Mac! RIP.
So sad to lose Mac. Played alongside him on-and-off since the Travelers Rest days with Reg Wall's band. Last gig I played with him was with Davey and the Rae Bros Jazz Band - he played a smoking hot session on drums. We'll all miss him but he's left us plenty of happy memories. RIP partner.
You're so right, Gavin! Maybe see you next week for Mac's send off.
From John Wilkie and Marjorie Leslie. When we got together 15 years ago we discovered the Reah Brothers band at Spring well Village Hall, our weekly venue until the passing of gentleman Dave. Their playing more than matched anything we experienced in New Orleans with the Ken Colyer Trust. Best experience ever was when we joined the band on a week Rhine cruise when we enjoyed their company and playing endlessly. These Saga cruises will never be matched again, and Mac was the life and soul of the experience.
Their band played for us at Marjories 80th birthday.
Glad that we shared the best of times. rip both brothers.
God must like Jazz, to take Mac also. Now they have met up again to perform for the big Jazz party in the sky. and I know who will be sitting in the front row! Happy memories, watching Mac as he played the drums, on the Rhine 2007, drum stick in one hand and pint in the other never missing a beat. then in the next session played the Clarinet, blissful. thanks again for your Music and the memories, they will be with me for ever. God Bless Mac and say hi to Dave and Jim for me. Mary from Springwell Jazz.
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