Bebop Spoken There

Jools Holland (on his 2026 spring/summer tour): ''With the mighty [R&B] Orchestra, our wonderful boogie woogie singers, and the brilliant Joe Webb opening the shows [including Darlington Hippodrome, June 19], we're in for some very special evenings of music.'' The Northern Echo February 5, 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

18263 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 117 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Feb. 6), 17

From This Moment On ...

February

Sat 07: The Big Easy @ St Augustine’s Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. £10.00. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 07: Tees Bay Swing Band @ The Blacksmith’s Arms, Hartlepool. 1:30-3:30pm. Free. Open rehearsal.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £27.50. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. St Thomas & Bésame Mucho. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Side Cafe Oᴙkestar @ Café Under the Spire, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Table reservations: 0191 477 3970.
Sat 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.

Sun 08: Swing Tyne @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12 noon (doors). Donations. Swing dance taster class (12:30pm) + Hot Club de Heaton (live performance). Non dancers welcome.
Sun 08: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 08: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 08: Gerry Richardson’s Big Idea @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 09: Mark Williams Trio @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 09: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 10: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Jam Session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington.. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 12: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.

Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm . £9.00. Dennis (trumpet, flugelhorn); Rick Laughlin (piano); Mick Shoulder (double bass); Tim Johnston (drums).
Fri 13: Joe Steels @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00.
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: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Hotel Gotham, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Fri 13: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm.
Fri 13: Tom Remon & John Moriarty @ The Ship Isis, Silksworth Row, Sunderland SR1 3QJ. 7:00pm. £10.00 + £1.00 bf.

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

Sunday, August 01, 2021

The Sunday Service - August 1

Adrian Cox (clarinet, vocals); Dave Archer (guitar); Will Sach (double bass)

Preacher Adrian Cox is once again in the country, for how long is another matter! Stints working across Europe have kept our clarinetist busy and today found him in London working with Kansas Smitty's mainstays guitarist Dave Archer and bassist Will Sach. Three great players* working out on material by composers as diverse as Louis Alter, Irving Berlin, Spencer Williams, and one A.
Cox (Upper Street Serenade) made for an effortlessly swinging hour of jazz. 

An online congregation of eighty plus parishioners fired off complimentary comments at a rate of knots although not quite as nifty as Adrian, Dave and Will took to swinging My Walking Stick! As hot as you like, superb! Our trio played Vincent Youmans' You Turned the Tables on Me, Adrian singing Sidney D Mitchell's lyrics. 

Adrian mentioned last week's APPJAG awards, thanking all those who voted for him, even though he didn't win, our man graciously adding: The Globe up there in Geordieland won the Lockdown Innovation award! Playing clarinet or singing, Adrian has the ability to read the rate-of-knots online comments at the same time, at one juncture seamlessly interjecting greetings to Ella Hohnen-Ford - Good afternoon, Ella - as he sang the aforementioned Vincent Youmans' number. The boys signed off with I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over.      

Next week, to be confirmed, it's likely to be the same trio - Adrian, Dave and Will. Make a Facebook date with Adrian Cox Music, one o'clock.
            
* Two thirds of today's trio - Dave Archer and Will Sach - will be 'up north' in Newcastle and Saltburn on Friday 20 August playing the music of Art Tatum with piano virtuoso Joe Webb (see right hand column for details). 

Set list: I Would Do Anything for You; Upper St Serenade; My Walking Stick; I Know That You Know; Basin Street Blues; You Turned the Tables on Me; Black Bottom Stomp; Profoundly Blue; I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over.    
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