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Trevor Mires: ''My mum is a Dean Martin fan: I'm not, so I would grab my skateboard and get out of the house whenever I heard "Everybody Loves Somebody, Sometime." ". (Jazzwise, April 2025).

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

17957 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 278 of them this year alone and, so far, 34 this month (April 14).

From This Moment On ...

April 2025.

Tue 15: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 16: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 16: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 16: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. CANCELLED!

Thu 17: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: Only Six Standards.
Thu 17: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Fri 18: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 18: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 18: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 1:00-2:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 18: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.

Fri 18: Alexia Gardner @ Fika Gallery, Oldgate, Morpeth NE61 1LT. 7:00pm. Trio (Gardner, Alan Law, Jude Murphy).RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 13

Fri 18: Sarah Jane Morris & Tony Remy: The Sisterhood @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £25.00.

Sat 19: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 1:00-3:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 19: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 19: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 20: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 20: Salty Dog @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 20: Spilt Milk @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. Nolan Brothers (vocal harmonies).
Sun 20: Tweed River Jazz Band @ The Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 20: C.A.L.I.E @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 21: Newcastle Record Fair @ Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle. 10:00am. Going in search of the Buddy Bolden cylinder…
Mon 21: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. 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

Friday, June 10, 2022

Top Scottish jazz players to appear just North of the Border (down Roxburghshire way)

(Press release). Leading Scottish jazz musicians including pianists Brian Kellock and Fergus McCreadie are included in a new concert season in the Heart of Hawick venue in the Scottish Borders.

Kellock will appear in a duo with saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski on Friday 5th August and McCreadie joins fellow rising Scottish star, saxophonist Matt Carmichael on Friday 18th November in a series of gigs that encompass folk and traditional music and singer-songwriters as well as jazz.

The series opens with leading Celtic guitarist Tony McManus, whose repertoire has included Charles Mingus’s Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, in a duo with guitarist-violinist Julia Toaspern on Friday 1st July. Other concerts that will appeal to jazz fans are violinist Alex Yellowlees’ Hot Club Quartet (Saturday 10th September) and the harp-saxophone duo of Savourna Stevenson and Steve Kettley (Saturday 26th November).

The Kellock-Wiszniewski duo is a relatively new venture, although the musicians have previously worked together in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, including the orchestra’s recordings of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and the Ellington celebration, In the Spirit of Duke.

“We played our first gig as a duo on International Jazz Day at the end of April,” says Wiszniewski, a twice winner of the Best Instrumentalist prize at the Scottish Jazz Awards who also co-leads the award-winning New Focus group and spiritual jazz ensemble Mama Terra. “It was fantastic to get to play with Brian because he’s so incredibly resourceful and a really inspiring duo partner. It’s like having a whole rhythm section onstage and I can’t wait to play with him again.”   

The Heart of Hawick is situated in the town of Hawick, about an hour’s drive from Berwick upon Tweed and just north of Northumberland National Park. More information can be found HERE. 

Photo credits: Brian Kellock - Louis DeCarlo; Konrad Wiszniewski - Derek Clark; Fergus McCreadie - Dave Stapleton 

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