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Sun 01: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:15pm (12 noon doors). £7.50. Note earlier start.
Sun 01: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 01: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Laurels, Whitley Road, Whitley Bay. 4:00pm. £10.00. SOLD OUT!
Sun 01: Martin Fletcher Band @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 01: Mark Williams Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Album launch gig.
Sun 01: Christmas After Hours @ Fabio’s, Saddler St., Durham. 8:00pm. Free. A Durham University Jazz Society event. Six piece band.
Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 02: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137.1:00pm. Free.
Tue 03: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, North St., Ferryhill DL17 8HX. 7:00pm. Free.
Tue 03: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, John Hirst.
Tue 03: Bold Big Band @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Wed 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 04: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:30-4:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Wed 04: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 8:00pm. Concert. Free. .
Wed 04: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 04: Kat Eaton @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:15pm. Soulful vocals, excellent band.
Thu 05: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 05: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘George - named musicians, vocalists & composers (Chisholm, Duke, Lewis, Shearing, Benson, Melly, Gershwin et al)’.
Thu 05: Jools Holland’s R & B Orchestra @ Newcastle City Hall. 7:30pm.
Thu 05: Indigo Jazz Voices @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. Free.
Thu 05: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. Guest band special with the Middlesbrough Jazz and Blues Orchestra 8pm. Free.
Fri 06: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 06: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 06: Sue Ferris Quintet @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Sat 07: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 07: Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Steve Glendinning. Enrol at: learning@jazz.coop.
Sat 07: Hot Club du Nord @ St. Cuthbert’s Church, Shadforth DH6 1LB. Tel: 01429 823400. 7:30pm. £15.00. (inc. refreshments).
Sat 07: NUJO Jazz Jam @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 07: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 7:45-9:45pm. Free.
Sat 07: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
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Thursday, December 30, 2021
Post Number 1500
Album review: Eric Goletz - A New Light
Goletz gets a lovely sound and has a technical ability that enables him to hit notes some trumpet players could only dream about albeit not the trumpet player in this band. Randy Brecker isn't heavily featured but when he is he displays the fire that reminds the listener that there were two Brecker brothers and Randy is still a killer. On Don't Gimme That Randy and Eric go toe to toe each complementing the other.
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Live at Jack's Place with a special guest - Dec. 29
Live from Emmet's Place (Vol. 80) - Dec. 27
Throughout lockdown Emmet Cohen has presented a series of world class concerts from Emmet's Place, that's pianist Cohen's NYC apartment. More or less every Monday evening Cohen's trio (invariably Russell Hall and Kyle Poole) working with one or two special guests confounds expectations. How can these guys be so darn good?!!!
Dave Sayer’s Best of 2021
According to many commentators it has been a ‘funny old year.’ Usually my best of the year’s CDs list includes many that I had bought after gigs, still flush with the excitement of the preceding couple of hours. Not so this year. And, if it hadn’t been for a mad rush around the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, I would hardly have seen any live jazz at all. Thankfully, what I did see was very good and, in one case at least, exceptional.
Jazz Gig of the Year - 2021
There were several gigs this year that really impressed …blew me away…as they say…
Micheal
Feinstein at Sage Gateshead.
Paul
Booth’s appearance at the jam session in The Central Bar in Gateshead
Francis
Tulip’s appearance at The Newcastle Jazz Festival with his leg in plaster
The Alison Rayner Quintet gig at The Globe…..to name only four of dozens.
Along with several happy and sociable afternoons and nights at The Exchange and Cullercoats Crescent Club, these gigs show that jazz is still commanding an audience…sometimes more “select” than others… but nevertheless….
National Youth Jazz Collective (NYJC) News
My Dream Team – Ann Alex
I've had such fun thinking about this!
I'm not all that familiar with the musicians of the past so I'm mostly sticking to local people. We are very lucky to have loads of talented musicians right on our doorsteps.
The team is:
Brad Leali – alto saxophonist
Phil Kelly funeral details
The funeral of Phil Kelly will take place at the West Rd. Crematorium, Newcastle NE5 2JL on Tuesday January 11 at 12:30pm followed by a wake at The Hotspur.
Thanks to Jude Murphy for this update - Lance
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Rossano Sportiello: #59 Live at the Flat in Greenwich Village - Dec. 28
A beautiful livestream by an amazing NYC based Italian pianist - promise I'll catch it from the start next week!. Lance
Jazz on the Tyne – Review of 2021
Presenter Colin Muirhead has selected
extracts from interviews with guests who appeared on the programme during 2021,
plus music by the John Pope Quintet, Paul Taylor, Andy Champion & Graeme
Wilson, Matt Carmichael, Zoe Gilby, Not Now Charlie, Archipelago, the Strictly
Smokin’ Big Band, the Dean Stockdale Trio, Ceitidh Mac, Emma Johnson’s Gravy
Boat and the Fergus McCreadie Trio.
You can listen to the show anytime
from noon on Thursday by heading to www.mixcloud.com/hive_radio.
To request tunes for future programmes, please email Colin at jazz.tyne.hive@gmail.com.
Words needed - your words!
I have to confess - we're on a mission. We're looking to hit 1500 posts this year. It's an awesome challenge but, we're getting close. However, it's going to the wire. So, if anyone out there would like to contribute something - a review, a piece reflecting you're feelings on jazz, even on BSH - it would ensure that you were on next year's Xmas card list or, at least, the year after.
You listen to the music so you must have some thoughts about it! Lance
Xmas Competition update.
And, if that isn't enough, we're also adding Ivo Neame's Glimpse of Truth, alongside Pat Metheny's Road to Freedom as an additional incentive to take part. So, let's make this more than a ten horse race - Lance
Monday, December 27, 2021
Claire Martin @ the 606 (re-stream) - Dec. 27
Claire Martin (vocals); Nikki Iles (piano); Steve Watts (bass); Matt Home (drums)
A very enjoyable re-stream of an EFG London Jazz Festival gig from the 606 featuring the never less than tremendous Claire Martin. With the always wonderful Nikki Iles on piano and the solid support of Watts and Home the programme concentrated on the work of Bill Evans and Tony Bennett which is always a fertile pasture to plough.
Preview: Miki's Mood, online (Dec 29)
Drybroughs Dixieland Jazz Jamboree @ Newcastle - Sept. 4 - 6, 1983
Such an event was the The First (and last) Drybroughs Dixieland Jazz Jamboree that took place in, and around, Newcastle in Sept. 1983.
The Edinburgh brewery sponsored the Edinburgh Jazz Festival that year and it seemed a good idea to give the American bands the opportunity to pick up some extra bucks across the border.
Re-streams from 606
All streams begin at 8:00pm with the exception of NYE which kicks off at 11:00pm. Full details - Lance
Anything Goes: live from the Barbican - Dec. 26
Not all of the songs were from the original 1934 production - It's De-Lovely was from the 1936 show Red, Hot and Blue and only incorporated into Anything Goes twenty years later. However, You're the Top, I Get a Kick Out of You, Blow, Gabriel Blow and (obviously) the title track were from the original and Nicole-Lily Baisden did manage the middle eight without taking a breath!
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City - Boxing Day
Boxing Day on the Box
TV's been good today with more to come. We've all seen and loved Singin' in the Rain many times but it never fails to delight and, how many jazzers have quoted the doody dum do doody doody dum do intro in their solos on a gig where it's pissing down outside?
Some Like it Hot - a great film - and Marilyn singing Matty Malneck's I'm Through With Love never fails to set my pulse racing.
There's a new version of Cole Porter's Anything Goes on at 6:40pm. The title song also provides a challenge for vocalists. Try singing the middle eight - The world has gone mad today and good's bad today and black's white today and day's night today when most guys today that women prize today are just silly gigolos - without taking a breath. Sinatra could do it, Ella couldn't.
At the watershed hour of 9:00pm we can watch A Very British Scandal recalling a 1960's cause celebre. The Duchess of Argyll may not have been a jazzer but she certainly lived the era's lifestyle! Lance
Georgia makes JRR!
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Dream teams
This is not a competition - we're still waiting for more replies to the previous one - but, what would be your dream band line-up?
No ground rules. It could be anything from the early days in New Orleans up to the present and, speculatively, the future.
You can mix the past with the present, the local with the legends e.g. John Coltrane playing with, say, The King Bees. Jo Harrop backed by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra singing the Beatles Song Book (Oh no!) Give it a go. Lance
Christmas competition - win a Pat Metheny CD
Back in the day when Crombie's Jazz Café hosted the Sunday afternoon jams there were quite often surprises and in the above picture the musicians shown aren't playing the instruments they are normally associated with (the shot of the flautist was actually taken at the Side Café - another charismatic venue that, jazz wise, is sadly, no longer with us).
Smalls NYC streaming louder and clearer, 24/7
Album review: Alex Webb w. Jo Harrop, Carroll Thompson, Luca Manning & Tony Momrelle - British Standard Time
Adrian Cox: Christmas Eve Service
Adrian Cox (clarinet, vocals)
A shorter stream this afternoon, fifty minutes rather than the usual full hour. Adrian Cox said he didn't want to detain people too long the day before the big day. As usual, clarinet maestro Cox had been gigging here, there and everywhere, now he was at home for a couple of days before hitting the road again. Preacher Cox addressed his online flock (numbering more than sixty) in his inimitable, engaging manner. Playing clarinet, singing and responding almost instantaneously to a continuous stream of online comment, Cox is the real deal.
Bogie, Bergman, Mr Benedetto & Sting
Friday, December 24, 2021
Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms - Xmas Eve
Live from Emmet's Place (Vol. 79) - Dec 20
Emmet Cohen (piano); Tyler Mitchell (double bass); Evan Sherman (drums); Vujo Sotashe (vocals); Grant Stewart (tenor sax)
Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time - Playlist for Sunday 26th - (6.30pm - 8.00pm repeated Tuesday 8.00pm - 9.30pm)
A Happy Christmas to all our listeners and a Peaceful and Healthy New Year.
Bublé to knock 'em for six
Thursday, December 23, 2021
More tenor players
The review of the cut price Avid label's 2 CD release of four albums by Wardell Gray prompted me to dig out the other 16 vinyl albums I have of the great man. I love them all - Wardell was perhaps the most underrated of the lot.
Nevertheless, as I listened to him playing Blue Lou along with Erroll Garner it occured to me that not only was this the most relaxed tenor playing I'd ever heard but that it also made me realise that, wonderful as Hawkins, Lester, Rollins and Trane are/were there were others that I listened to more - sometimes as much for their lifestyles as for their music although the latter quality had, of course, to cut it too. Here are some reminiscences...
Review: Wardell Gray - Four Classic Albums Plus
Wardell Gray died at the age of
34. To this day there is speculation as to how, exactly, he met his end. What
we have here is the legacy of an undoubtedly great tenor saxophonist. From
Pasadena in 1947 (Way Out Wardell) to Los Angeles 1950 and 1953 (Memorial
Album Volume 1) we hear the ill-fated Gray working with some of the great
names of the period.
The '47 Pasadena session included fellow tenor man Vido Musso, Benny Carter on alto sax and the trumpeters Howard McGhee and Ernie Royal. Some five years on Frank Morgan was playing alto sax, Al Haig, Phil Hill and Sonny Clark shared piano duties, Tommy Potter was on bass, and the sole surviving participant from these recordings, Roy Haynes (now 96) occupying the drum chair.
White Christmas, Jazz guitar
A Jazzy Christmas @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 22
Thank you everyone
No, this is to thank those who have contributed words and photos and, in general, supported BSH over the past (almost) 14 years.
Merry Christmas! An open letter to our Editor-in-Chief.
My grateful thanks to Lance for not sending me a CD of Christmas songs to review. It's the first year since I started reviewing that I haven't had such a CD to deal with.
Such CDs are, should I say, a very mixed blessing. They are sometimes too sentimental or self-indulgent, not at all appropriate for jazz. Or just plain boring.
We get enough Christmas music from the radio etc without it making an appearance on BSH.
Thank you again Lance. But I pray that you won't drop a last minute Christmas CD through my letterbox tomorrow, Please, No …. Ann Alex
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Derrick Harris Trio @ The Railway, Stockport - Dec. 21
Derrick Harris (guitar); Dean Stockdale(keys); Paul Smith (drums).
This month has been great for jazz guitar fans with no less than four guitar-led acts being booked to play the Railway. Tonight, on what was the last jazz night of this year, we heard the Derrick Harris Trio featuring Dean Stockdale on a Nord Stage 2 keyboard giving the group a sound which reminded me of a Wes Montgomery LP that he made for Riverside in 1959 with Melvin Rhyne on organ and Paul Parker on drums.
Black Swan Jam - Dec. 21
The house trio kicked things off on what was expected to be a relatively quiet night with I Will Wait For You and How About You? We didn't have to wait too long before Mr Bassman Grainger was saying to an ever-increasing influx of instrument cases "How about you?"
The line was forming on the right.
First up was bass guitarist Richie Richardson who spelled Paul for some Jaco with Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and The Chicken.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Album review: Adrianne Duncan - Gemini
Christmas - a time of good will ...
Parlor Entertainment Harlem - Sundays
Monday, December 20, 2021
Trefor Owen Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - Dec. 19
The journey from my home to the Railway is pretty straight forward and usually takes about fifteen minutes but due to very foggy conditions I got lost a couple of times and missed a turning but eventually got there.
This no doubt deterred some of the regulars from attending as the turnout was well down on what it usually is on a Sunday night. However, the band had arrived early and the gig started on time at 9pm.
R.I.P. Phil Kelly - Death of a stalwart
Apparently on a night out with friends, he had a fall. He went home and was found dead by neighbours next day. It’s unclear at present whether an injury from the accident proved fatal or something underlying had caused him to fall in the first place. Presumably we will hear more in the next few days.
STOP PRESS!!! Blaydon Jazz Club tonight (Dec 20) CANCELLED!!!
Preview: Gregory Porter's Merry Xmas (Mon. 20)
VCT Ep 51 - S7 - Ain't this Music Sweet
"And here is link for the show that went out yesterday, Sunday,19th, December with music from the 1920s to the1950s by Gene Krupa, David Seville, Harry Reser, Jack Teagarden and much more.
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Hamish Stuart Band livestreaming from the 606 - Dec. 19
Stuart, a former member of the Average White Band as well as various collaborations with Chaka Khan and others made a welcome return to the 606 for an evening of Scottish soul with, maybe a hint of jazz in the mix. The first set was livestreamed.
In truth it wasn't entirely my scene although I did appreciate the solos and with Ross Stanley, semi hidden in a corner on 'lecky' keyboard and Jim Watson getting B3 sounds out of another keyboard the groove was definitely in.
Jambone, JB's Cats & the CAT Percussion Ensemble @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 18
Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ GCT - Dec. 18
Saturday, December 18, 2021
Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time
Milt Jackson & Howard McGhee;
Request :Helen Forrest w Benny Goodman;
Irene Serra & Tim Boniface;
Ian Mills Selection- Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Ilham al-Madfai, Bill Evans, Nina Simone,
Martin Taylor, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, featuring Mark O'Connor, Frank Vignola.
Jeff Barnhart & John Hallam; Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Lee Konitz & Gerry Mulligan, Adrian Cox, Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Preview: Mo' Better Blues - Sky Arts (Dec. 18)
Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ GCT - Dec.17
Friday, December 17, 2021
Digital release from Knats
Ferg Kilsby (trumpet); Josh Mitchell-Rayner (keyboards);
Stan Woodward (bass); King David Ike-Elechi (drums)
Knats have been receiving quite a bit of coverage on
BSH in recent weeks via gigs at Hoochie, The Globe and other venues around
Newcastle. Deservedly so.
They're a band who may not yet have decided where they are going but you know that, wherever it is, they'll get there. Whether they get there together or as individuals remains to be seen. With music college places on the horizon their paths may diverge but, in the meantime they have laid down a couple of tracks (digitally) that tells us where they are at and hints at where or where not they may be going.
Paul Edis Trio @ the Lit & Phil - Dec. 17
Last month, Matt Forster didn't make it to the Lit & Phil. This month (today) Matt Anderson didn't make it either. However, necessity being the mother of invention and jazz being one of that family, it all came good - more than good!
Last month, Ben Lawrence found himself thrown in at the deep end and emerging a star.This afternoon, Ben's former mentor and tutor via Jambone at Sage Gateshead Paul Edis found himself in a similar situation and did the biz - and how!
Classic Swing Christmas party @ The Crescent Club – Dec. 17
Alan
Marshall (alto sax); Dave Kerridge (tenor sax); Neville Hartley (trombone,
vocal); Jeremy McMurray (piano); Alan Rudd (bass guitar); Tommy Graham (drums);
Olive Rudd (vocals)
Christmas came early to Cullercoats when Classic Swing threw a party for their loyal Friday following at the Crescent Club. The regular crowd were expecting their Friday lunchtime fix of good music from the band, what they were not expecting was a Christmas party - or at least a Christmas party like this!
As well as serving up their regular feel-good music, Olive and the band provided a buffet that ensured no-one left hungry and, to top that, a raffle where everyone was a prize winner! In fact, Alan Rudd had to forgo his regular upright bass for a bass guitar as there was no room in the car, filled as it was with gifts for the faithful!
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Peter Bernstein & Jim Mullen @ the 606 - re-streamed Dec. 16
In my defence, I thought this re-stream started at 9:00pm as the live livestreams usually do.
I was wrong!
It actually started an hour earlier so I only caught the last 20 minutes after realising my error.
However, those 20 minutes were more precious than many a stream that was three times as long - and more ...
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- Post Number 1500
- Album review: Eric Goletz - A New Light
- Live at Jack's Place with a special guest - Dec. 29
- Live from Emmet's Place (Vol. 80) - Dec. 27
- Dave Sayer’s Best of 2021
- Jazz Gig of the Year - 2021
- National Youth Jazz Collective (NYJC) News
- My Dream Team – Ann Alex
- Brad Leali – alto saxophonist
- Phil Kelly funeral details
- Rossano Sportiello: #59 Live at the Flat in Greenw...
- Jazz on the Tyne – Review of 2021
- Words needed - your words!
- Xmas Competition update.
- Claire Martin @ the 606 (re-stream) - Dec. 27
- Preview: Miki's Mood, online (Dec 29)
- Drybroughs Dixieland Jazz Jamboree @ Newcastle - S...
- Re-streams from 606
- Anything Goes: live from the Barbican - Dec. 26
- Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City - Boxing Day
- Boxing Day on the Box
- Georgia makes JRR!
- Dream teams
- Christmas competition - win a Pat Metheny CD
- Smalls NYC streaming louder and clearer, 24/7
- Album review: Alex Webb w. Jo Harrop, Carroll Tho...
- Adrian Cox: Christmas Eve Service
- Bogie, Bergman, Mr Benedetto & Sting
- Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms - Xmas Eve
- Live from Emmet's Place (Vol. 79) - Dec 20
- Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time - Playlist for Sunday 26...
- Bublé to knock 'em for six
- More tenor players
- Review: Wardell Gray - Four Classic Albums Plus
- White Christmas, Jazz guitar
- A Jazzy Christmas @ Sage Gateshead - Dec 22
- Thank you everyone
- Merry Christmas! An open letter to our Editor-in-C...
- Derrick Harris Trio @ The Railway, Stockport - Dec...
- Black Swan Jam - Dec. 21
- Album review: Adrianne Duncan - Gemini
- Christmas - a time of good will ...
- Parlor Entertainment Harlem - Sundays
- Trefor Owen Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - Dec...
- R.I.P. Phil Kelly - Death of a stalwart
- STOP PRESS!!! Blaydon Jazz Club tonight (Dec 20) C...
- Preview: Gregory Porter's Merry Xmas (Mon. 20)
- VCT Ep 51 - S7 - Ain't this Music Sweet
- Hamish Stuart Band livestreaming from the 606 - De...
- Jambone, JB's Cats & the CAT Percussion Ensemble @...
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ GCT - Dec. 18
- Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time
- Preview: Mo' Better Blues - Sky Arts (Dec. 18)
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band @ GCT - Dec.17
- Digital release from Knats
- Paul Edis Trio @ the Lit & Phil - Dec. 17
- Classic Swing Christmas party @ The Crescent Club ...
- Peter Bernstein & Jim Mullen @ the 606 - re-stream...
- Probably the Best Christmas Album Ever
- Live at Jack's Place #37: The House Trio - Dec. 15
- Full steam ahead for Strictly Smokin'
- Top ten gigs of 2021
- Big Band Bash - Wednesdays at eight!
- Bim Williams' Quartet @ The Railway, Stockport - D...
- Harry Keeble & Friends @ The Forum Music Centre, D...
- Under the Surface: @ the Globe - Dec. 12
- RIP Ronnie Young
- The Stuart Fowler Quintet play Art Blakey's Moanin...
- Suzanne Fonseca Quartet @ The Railway, Stockport -...
- Album review: Fred Hersch Trio w. Crosby Street St...
- Preview: Lisa Gets the Blues - tonite at six!
- Adrian Cox: Paul 'Polo' Barnes - Dec 12
- Jason Isaacs Big Band @ Hoochie Coochie - Dec. 12
- The Joe Webb Trio: The Art of Tatum @ The Bear Clu...
- Close encounters
- RIP Mensi
- Preview: The Main Event - Jason Isaacs' Big Band @...
- Prudhoe Community Band @ Central Station - Dec 11
- Preview: Lead Belly on Sky Arts (Dec. 11)
- Preview: You're under arrest...for four hours (Dec...
- Twelve reissues/previously unissued albums of 2021
- Jazz on the Tyne – Christmas Special
- Preview: The Celluloid Sinatra, the Promenading Si...
- Tales From the Darkside
- R.I.P. Barry Harris
- Steve Oakes Band @ the Railway, Stockport - Dec. 7
- My top ten live gigs of 2021
- The no. 39 bus Black Swan jam session - Dec. 7
- Ten great vocal albums from 2021
- Preview: 78 Revolutions (Radio 4 Extra, Tuesday 7)
- Indigo Jazz Voices Christmas Gig @ The Globe - Dec. 9
- Northern Monkey Brass Band @ The People's Kitchen ...
- Hexham Jazz Festival
- Film review: Sing as You Swing (TPTV, Dec. 6)
- Freddie Garner Quartet @ The Railway, Stockport - ...
- Farewell John Miles - may the music live on
- Preview: Art Blakey's Moanin' at Central Bar - Dec...
- Knats @ The Globe, Newcastle - Dec. 5
- Foundry Jazz Ensemble @ The Exchange, North Shield...
- Film preview: Sing as You Swing (Talking Pictures TV)
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