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Bebop Spoken There

Charles McPherson: “Jazz is best heard in intimate places”. (DownBeat, July, 2024).

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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

16611 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 1504 of them this year alone and, so far, 50 this month (July 23).

From This Moment On ...

July

Sat 27: BBC Proms: BBC Introducing stage @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 12 noon. Free. Line-up inc. Nu Groove (2:00pm); Abbie Finn Trio (2:50pm); Dilutey Juice (3:50pm); SwanNek (5:00pm); Rivkala (6:00pm).
Sat 27: Nomade Swing Trio @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sat 27: Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sat 27: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sat 27: Theon Cross + Knats @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 10:00pm. £22.00. BBC Proms: BBC Introducing Stage (Sage Two). A late night gig.

Sun 28: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm.
Sun 28: Miss Jean & the Ragtime Rewind Swing Band @ Fonteyn Ballroom, Dunelm House (Durham Students’ Union), Durham. 2:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.
Sun 28: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Nomade Swing Trio @ Red Lion, Alnmouth. 4:00pm. Free.
Sun 28: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 28: Jeffrey Hewer Collective @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Sun 28: Milne Glendinning Band @ Cafédral, Owengate, Durham. 9:00pm. £9.00. & £6.00. A Durham Fringe Festival event.

Mon 29: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

Tue 30: ???

Wed 31: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 31: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 31: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

August

Thu 01: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00.
Thu 01: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 01: Elsadie & the Bobcats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Fri 02: Mainly Two @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free (donations). SOLD OUT! Fri 02: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 02: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 02: Pete Tanton’s Chet Set @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. POSTPONED!

Monday, October 16, 2023

Origin @ Central Bar, Gateshead - Oct. 15

Francis Tulip (guitar); Vato Klemera (keyboards); Trevor Boxall (electric bass); Glenn Charles (drums)

Glenn Charles is busy touring his CD Before After All. A week or so ago Charles' band Origin joined forces with Paul Booth, making it two lads from the same neck of the woods in deepest County Durham - Booth and guitarist Francis Tulip - sharing a stage. This evening's gig at Gateshead's Central Bar didn't feature P. Booth, our man was gigging somewhere in Europe. Drummer Charles' quartet is an attraction in itself and this gig on Half Moon Lane drew a decent crowd. 

General Ramblings opened the show and from the down beat the quartet hit the ground running. Across the course of two sets, guitarist Francis 'Frank' Tulip displayed prodigious technique. We - that's those of us in BSH-land - knew FT was good, but, his playing this evening was on a whole new level. Origin's new boy, pianist Vato Klemera, made a big impression. Occupying the piano stool vacated by Will Markham, VK got to grips with Charles' charts, so much so, on more than one occasion playing right hand-only, our man held his mobile phone in his left hand to video Tulip, bassist Trevor Boxall and bandleader Charles in action! Multi-tasking with ease!

Grady (a Charles-Markham composition) produced one of the evening's highlights as FT tore it up, a blindingly good solo, as good as anything you're likely to hear. Pianist Klemera shone on Before After All (the album's title track), taking us up to a short interval.

Glenn Charles' compositions invariably incorporate myriad styles, slaloming left then right, myriad time signatures yet, somehow, it all hangs together. On Disrupt the Flow unison lines were dispatched at speed by FT and VK. Most impressive. Bandleader Charles eschews the limelight, the collective seemingly all-important. In introducing his bandmates one more time, our man forgot to mention the title of the final number. Not to worry, it was another good 'un! Origin is a fine band, a new album is in the pipeline, watch this space. Russell            
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