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Postage

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 11:30am. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 28: Fri 20: Castillo Nuevo @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Sat 28: Jude Murphy, Rich Herdman & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Stepney Bank, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sun 29: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 29: Alexia Gardner Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

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

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Kind of Blue & a jam session @ Central Bar, Gateshead - Dec. 12

Pete Tanton (trumpet); Sue Ferris (alto sax, tenor sax); Alan Law (piano); Mick Shoulder (double bass); John Bradford (drums) + Ike Stow (trombone); Giles Strong (guitar)

Kind of Blue on a bitterly cold Monday evening. Freezing outside and, to be honest, not much warmer inside, the lure was the rare opportunity to hear the Central Bar Quintet 'play through' perhaps the most famous LP and, to this day, probably the biggest selling jazz album of all time. The ace rhythm section - Messrs Alan Law (Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly), Mick Shoulder (Paul Chambers) and John Bradford (Jimmy Cobb) - would provide the foundation for the modal frontline of Pete Tanton (Miles Davis) and Sue Ferris (John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley). 

That's one helluva star-studded line-up, isn't it? Pete, Sue, Alan, Mick and John! And off they went, as per the Columbia recording, with So What. Mick getting his head and fingers round the instantly recognisable bass line, Pete coming in right on cue, as Milesian as you're likely to hear. Open horn or tightly muted, Pete's playing couldn't be bettered. Freddie Freeloader with Sue on alto (Cannonball), Pete sublime on Blue in Green, we were right there, 1959. 

Sue blew the alto sax blues on All Blues, fantastic! And then, to take it out, Flamenco Sketches. A little over one hour, the audience as attentive as it was possible to be, it had been a treat. 

Interval, colder than cold, it looked as though second set sitters-in would be thin on the (icy) ground. 

Ike Stow threw his hat into the ring calling Frankie and Johnny. Bold 'bone from the lanky enthusiast, staying on for Dark Eyes and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Giles Strong dropped by, Ralph Rainger's If I Should Lose You his first selection followed by I'll Remember April. Guitar playing of the highest order, whenever Giles is next in concert, be sure to be there. Gateshead's Central Bar on Half Moon Lane, second Monday in the month, it's the place to be. The Central Bar Quintet will be giving January a miss, the next session - put it in your 2023 diary - will be on Monday February 13. Russell        

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