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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

18361 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 18 years ago. 215 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Mar. 8 ), 25

From This Moment On ...

March

Thu 12: Boomslang @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 12: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ The Mill Tavern, Hebburn. 8:30pm. Free.

Fri 13: Paul Skerritt Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm . £9.00.
Fri 13: The SH#RP Collective @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Soothsayers + Rookie Numbers @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £17.51., £14.33., £11.16.

Sat 14: The Too Bad Jims @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm (6:30pm doors). £13.20., £11.00. R&B.
Sat 14: NUJO @ Venue, Newcastle University Students’ Union. Time TBC. £15.00. supporter; £10.00. standard; £5.00. student. Seated event.

Sun 15: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 15: The Too Bad Jims @ The Georgian Theatre, Stockton. 3:00pm. £12.00. R&B.
Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Rebecca Poole @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £14.00., £12.00., £7.00. Poole w. Dean Stockdale & Ken Marley. CANCELLED!

Mon 16: Milne Glendinning Band @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm.
Mon 16: Friends of Jazz @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: Russ Morgan Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.

Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Scotty Adair (drums).

Wed 18: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 18: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 18: The ’58 Jazz Collective @ Hartlepool Cricket Club, West Park, 7:30pm. £7.00.
Wed 18: Brand New Heavies @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 7:30pm.
Wed 18: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, 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

Thursday, April 27, 2023

International Jazz Day @ the Globe

(Press release) Here at The Globe, we celebrate International Jazz Day every year for two reasons.  One being the fact that The Globe is owned by Jazz.Coop, so we obviously love jazz music, but also because it marks the anniversary of Jazz.Coop owning The Globe!  This year marks 9 years!


Here are the proceedings for the day…

2pm-5pm – MORE JAM – Free entry!

Come and play or just have a drink. Very relaxed. Admission is free but cash donations are very welcome.  There will be a house trio to keep the music flowing. Experienced instrumentalists and vocalists welcome to step up. Repertoire is Real Book jazz standards.  This is a special International Jazz Day version, which will be hosted in the main venue on the ground floor.

5pm-7pm – JAZZ BUFFET PARTY – Free entry!

After More Jam, and before the evening concert, we will be hosting a gathering in our first floor jazz bar, with a relaxed party atmosphere, featuring jazz playlists, and a food buffet.  Come along and celebrate with us!

7pm-11pm – CORRIE DICK'S ‘SUN SWELLS’ BAND

This is a special International Jazz Day co-promotion with our friends at Jazz North East, featuring the band of Corrie Dick, highly acclaimed drummer and Ubuntu recording artist.  Corrie Dick is a musician and composer specialising in euphoric, sonically-inventive drumming, is at the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz. He is lauded for his dynamism, his melodic slant and for his playfully subversive take on style and genre, an artist of prolific and varied output. Corrie is an original, open-minded, questing talent who is extending the parameters of what it means to be a drummer.

More info and tickets for this concert are available HERE.

Corrie Dick‘s 'Sun Swells’ Band
Rebecka Edlund (vocals); Norman Willmore (saxophone); Tara Cunningham (guitar); Caius Williams (bass); Corrie Dick (drums)
Corrie Dick is best known for his collaborative work with Laura Jurd's Mercury Prize shortlisted band ‘Dinosaur’. He was most recently in the north east alongside Jurd at Sage Gateshead and also with the Elliot Galvin Trio for Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music at the Lit and Phil.
His latest album ‘Sun Swells’ was released on the acclaimed Ubuntu Music label.
Corrie, a musician and composer specialising in euphoric, sonically-inventive drumming, is at the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz. He is lauded for his dynamism, his melodic slant and for his playfully subversive take on style and genre, an artist of prolific and varied output. Corrie is an original, open-minded, questing talent who is extending the parameters of what it means to be a drummer.
His 2015 release ‘Impossible Things’ which skilfully fused Celtic folk and contemporary jazz with new takes on African rhythms culminated in sold out touring and concerts across the UK, including The Bridge Hotel Newcastle for Jazz North East. Now Corrie resets for an album which further embraces the eclectic whims of a child of the iPod shuffle generation - finding cohesion among disparate elements.
The cast on the ‘Sun Swells’ album comprises a venerable and prolific A-list of musicians in the young, dynamic segment of the always-morphing London jazz scene, including Laura Jurd, Rob Luft, Tom McCredie, Joe Wright, Alice Zawadzki, Matt Robinson and Joe Webb.
For this leg of the album tour Corrie brings to the stage a new crop of emerging talent to include: Rebecka Edlund (comparisons include Alice Zawadzki), Norman Willmore (noted producer and member of Corto Alto as well as a mover and shaker and innovator on the jazz/folk scenes in Glasgow), Tara Cunningham (Fresh from touring with Red Snapper), Caius Williams (the new bassist on the block, making free music accessible to a new generation of interested students).
Jazz North East and Jazz.Coop at The Globe are delighted to work in partnership in bringing this exceptional band to Tyne and Wear, and welcome audiences to join us for International Jazz Day 2023.

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