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March
Thu 12: Boomslang @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 13: Paul Skerritt Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm . £9.00.
Fri 13: The SH#RP Collective @ 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: Soothsayers + Rookie Numbers @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.51., £14.33., £11.16.
Sat 14: The Too Bad Jims @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm (6:30pm doors). £13.20., £11.00. R&B.
Sat 14: NUJO @ Venue, Newcastle University Students’ Union. Time TBC. £15.00. supporter; £10.00. standard; £5.00. student. Seated event.
Sun 15: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 15: The Too Bad Jims @ The Georgian Theatre, Stockton. 3:00pm. £12.00. R&B.
Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Rebecca Poole @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £14.00., £12.00., £7.00. Poole w. Dean Stockdale & Ken Marley. CANCELLED!
Mon 16: Milne Glendinning Band @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 16: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: Russ Morgan Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Scotty Adair (drums).
The results, which are quite interesting can be found here.
At the risk of being accused of plagiarism, I'd like to ask our readers what was the first sax album or maybe just a single track that inspired them.
I know it's a near impossible task but one album that sticks in my mind is Ellington at Newport 1956. Not just for Paul Gonsalves' marathon solo on Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue but also for Johnny Hodges on Jeep's Blues. Two very different performances but equally inspiring. Lance
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Spinning forward a few years...and skipping over Wayne Shorter's Weather Report contributions and the wonderful Barbara Thompson live, ..., Michael Brecker's playing on Abercrombie's 1984 album Night opened my ears to the full potential of the tenor sax....especially 3 East, A live version is at https://youtu.be/JzipYzuDHo4
One LP that had a huge impact on me was Our Man In Paris by Dexter Gordon on Blue Note mono. I still think it takes some beating!
I do hope I'm not lowering the tone, but Chuck Rio (Danny Flores) on "Tequila" really made a impression on me. I still can't emulate it.
Bud Freeman's 1935 Windy City Five record of his composition "The Buzzard", on an MFP LP I bought at 13 in 1967. Wild then and still wild now!
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