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

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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.

Monday, June 05, 2023

Munch Manship Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - June 4

(© Jeff Pritchard)
Munch Manship (tenor sax); Paul Kilvington (keys); Dave Lynane (bass); Dave Hassell (drums).

There were plenty of standards played tonight including two by Jerome Kern, one by Brooks Bowman, Harold Arlen, Dave Brubeck, Richard Rodgers, and Sigmund Romberg. There were also originals such as Johnny Griffin’s The Jamfs are Coming and Hank Mobley’s This I Dig Of You, the latter tune given an up tempo workout which had all four musicians pulling the stops out in a rousing finale.

Munch decided not to play flute tonight, maybe because there were occasions when some of the audience were a bit too noisy, but that meant we got to hear more of his outstanding tenor solos. Most of the numbers have been played many times here at the Railway but one tune that I have not heard anyone play before was Last Night When We Were Young an interesting song composed by Harold Arlen in 1935 and which was featured in Frank Sinatra‘s recording In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning. Arlen is quoted as saying that this tune was the favourite of all of his songs.     


This quartet has worked together on countless gigs and the empathy was evident. I enjoyed the rapport that Munch developed with keyboard player Paul Kilvington,  especially on Autumn Leaves which had some creative interplay happening. The two Daves did a first class job on bass and drums and it proved to me that the older some musicians get the better they sound.


The next jazz gig at the Railway is on Tues June 6 with the Ed Kainyek Quartet;  There is also, on Thursday June 8, an exhibition (6:00pm to 9:00pm) of Paddy O’Donnell's prints, films and drawings all inspired by live jazz at the Railway. Mike Farmer

 

I’m Old Fashioned; In Your Own Sweet Way; The Jamfs Are Coming; The Drum; I've Told Ev’ry Little Star; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; East of the Sun; Last Night When We Were Young; Autumn Leaves; Have You Met Miss Jones?; This I Dig of You.

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