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Donovan Haffner ('Best Newcomer' 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards): ''I got into jazz the first time I picked up a saxophone!" - Jazzwise Dec 25/Jan 26

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

18122 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 1086 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Dec. 31), 100

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Wed 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 07: FILM: Blue Moon @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Dir. Richard Linklater’s biopic of Lorenz Hart.
Wed 07: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 07: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 08: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Jazz Milestones of 1976.

Fri 09: The House Trio @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 09: Nauta @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Trio: Jacob Egglestone, Jamie Watkins, Bailey Rudd.
Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Warren James & the Lonesome Travellers @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 09: The Blue Kings @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv.). All-star band.

Sat 10: Mark Toomey Quintet @ St Peter’s Church, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:30pm. £12.00. (inc. pie & peas). Tickets from: 07749 255038.

Sun 11: New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 12: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 13: Milne Glendinning Band @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Coquetdale Jazz.
Tue 13: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

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

Monday, June 06, 2022

Foundry Jazz Ensemble @ The Exchange, North Shields - June 5

Bernie Ranson (tenor/alto sax/vocals); Jude Murphy (double bass/vocals); Barbara Wilcox (keys/vocals); Jamie Mackay (guitar); Alan Wann (drums)

The word is getting out and nearly all tables were taken when the band arrived for their usual Sunday afternoon gig at The Exchange in North Shields. The audience was a mixture of regulars  together with those who had enjoyed a Jubilee lunch and stayed on for the jazz.

The two hour set was made up of the Great American Songbook, straight ahead jazz and some good old crowd pleasers. Jude sang Georgia on my Mind, Cry me a River, and Summertime to loud applause (those who are not fans of scat should listen to Ms Murphy - bliss!)

Barbara took her turn and sang Beyond the Sea while Bernie followed with I Thought About You and then a version of The Girl From Ipanema with Bernie and Jude duetting. Jude sang the lyrics in Portuguese and from Bernie a verse with new words relating to his dog - Finn…(each one she passes goes woof!…really?…I wonder what Jobim would have made of that?  But the crowd loved it!)

Everyone took solos. There are no passengers in this band but memorable were Bernie’s melancholy tenor on Cry me a River and Jamie’s beautiful take on Corcovado.

All in all a lovely way to end a Bank Holiday weekend and thanks to The Exchange for the distribution of cakes and sandwiches left over from their Jubilee lunch. Jazz and a Bakewell tart - what else does a girl need?

The Foundry Jazz  Ensemble can  be heard at The Exchange each Sunday from 3pm and four fifths of the band entertain there each Wednesday evening at 7 pm.

The set also included amongst others: I Can’t Get Started; Twisted; Yardbird Suite; Stella by Starlight; Ladybird; My Little Suede Shoes and Too Young to go Steady.

Sylvia T

P.s.  Heads up for the first weekend in July when The Exchange will be hosting a weekend of music which includes The Abbie Finn Trio and Panharmonia together with a showing of the film Geordie Jazz Man together with a programme of swing and blues music….details to follow.
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