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Bebop Spoken There

Simon Spillett: “ Bebop and hard bop came naturally to him [Tubby Hayes]". Morning Star, March 28, 2024.

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 29: True Colours @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 9:00pm. Blues, jazz & swing.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 04: FILM: Soul @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Thu 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 04: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 04: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 04: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

A Book at Bedtime

Today I went on what Simon Spillett, for obvious reasons, calls Spilletting which in my case could be called Lancing which sounds rather painful or Liddling which sounds like some form of incontinence. To be more precise I did what, years ago, we called junk-shopping which, in today's parlance, is now charity-shopping.

Simon usually toots into a hand me down shop in Tooting Bec and invariably emerges with the complete works of John Coltrane for a fiver. He's probably got half-a-dozen Buddy Bolden cylinders awaiting to be transferred to stereo.

Now, had I been a collector of Jim Reeves albums I'd have been, like Jim, in, metaphorically speaking, Heaven. In Jarrow's charity shops Reeves outnumbers even Sinatra by a hundred to one although Elvis does run him close.

Reeves and Presley's albums were released on RCA and, back in the day, RCA had a pressing plant in nearby Washington which begs the question as to whether this preponderance of Jim and Elvis LPs were originally sold or did they come out of the factory's back door?

However, that is mere supposition and digression, the point I'm eventually getting to is that in the Marie Curie Shop I hit pay dirt!

No, I didn't find a recording of Bud Freeman jamming with Albert Ayler on Blue Note but I did come across a pristine copy of the book pictured above and whilst, at £1.25, It seemed to be slightly over the top for a charity shop, I felt it would be uncharitable not to buy it.

I've got Ray Celestin's earlier book The Axeman's Jazz and I'm almost three quarters of the way through it (why do current novelists make their books so long? Raymond Chandler and Grahame Greene could tell more in half as many words and their novels could fit into your pocket/handbag! Presumably writers today are paid by the word rather than by the writer's ability to hold the reader's interest - I hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot here!)

Nevertheless, Deadman's Blues looks promising opening as it does with a young Louis Armstrong, cornet case, suitcase and tickets to Chicago in hand running to jump on the train to meet up with King Oliver in the Windy City. The rest is history merged with fiction - time to go to bed with a good book! Lance

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