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Ludovic Beier (Django Festival Allstars): ''Manouche means 'free man,' and gypsies have been travelers since they migrated west from India to Europe.'' (DownBeat March, 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

18395 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 259 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 30 ), 69

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

From This Moment On

March

Tue 31: Bede Trio @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. Albert Hills Wright (alto sax); Finn Carter (piano); Michael Dunlop (double bass).

April

Wed 01: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 01: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 01: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 02: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject: Musicians playing classical & orchestral music.
Thu 02: The Noel Dennis Band @ Prohibition Bar, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2RU. 7:00pm (doors). £10.84. Quartet plus special guest Zoë Gilby. Over 21s only.
Thu 02: Renegade Brass Band @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors).
Thu 02: Shalala @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £7.00. adv..
Thu 02: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 03: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 03: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 03: King Bees @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). Free. Chicago blues.

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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