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Bebop Spoken There

Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 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

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, November 07, 2023

The Classic Jazz Party @ The Village Hotel, North Tyneside - Nov. 3 (afternoon)

At noon on Friday That's a Plenty got things off to a fine start. By tradition the first concert proper is a Tribute to Mike (the late Mike Durham, who's name is above the door, ran the Whitley Bay Jazz Festival, forerunner to the Classic Jazz Party). His good friend Spats Langham did the honours, sharing the stage with CJP veterans (young and old), French trumpeter Malo Mazurié,  Alistair Allan (trombone), from Italy, Mauro Porro (reeds), Martin Litton (at the Kawai grand), Londoner Richard Pite (tuba, string bass) and the man from Davenport, Iowa, Josh Duffee (drums). To a man, they all knew Mike, they all knew what this tribute was about.

Tribute to Mike would be the first of seven sets during the afternoon (throughout the weekend the turn-around time between sets would be minimal with musicians vacating/assuming their seats without a second to spare). Presented by Michael McQuaidThe NORK and their Circle surveyed the output of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Hot jazz, in a hot, if not stuffy, hall, performed by A-listers, including Chicagoan And Schumm (cornet), from N'Awlins, pianist David Boeddinghaus, from Milan, Lorenzo Baldasso (reeds) making his CJP debut, and local lad, Phil Rutherford (tuba). A terrific set!  

Dan Barrett presented his Continental Connection taking a broad bush approach to 'neglected gems from the late 1920s and early 1930s'. Deed I Do a highlight, yes, indeed. 

In from Portland, Oregon, pianist Andrew Oliver worked in trio format alongside David Horniblow (clarinet) and the ever-smiling period percussion specialist Nicholas D. Ball, their half-hour set examining Jelly Roll Morton's clarinet/piano/drums sides. 

Trumpeter Malo Mazurié led an enticing-looking set...Dickie Wells Meets Django. Featuring Dan Barrett as Dickie Wells and Félix Hunot as Django Reinhardt (Mazurié, Norwegian Torstein Kubban and New Yorker Mike Davis, trumpets, the session focussed upon the 1937 meeting of the two giants of jazz.

Nicolle Rochelle (pictured) assumed the role of Eva Taylor in a set looking at the singer's relationship, musically and personally, with Clarence Williams (they were a married couple). Shout, Sister! Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams (the penultimate set of the afternoon) featured the principals and Malo Mazurié (trumpet), Graham Hughes (trombone), the reeds of Claus Jacobi and Matthias Seuffert, Martin Gunnar Larsen (piano), Spats Langham playing banjo and guitar with a vocal number, CJP favourite Malcolm Sked (tuba, string bass) and Nicholas (Nick) D. Ball (drums and washboard). Rochelle singing Baby Won't You Please Come Home? and Moanin' Low proved to be undoubted highlights. 

To close a full afternoon of world class jazz, Mike Davis dedicated an hour to Stardust and Beyond - the Music of Hoagy Carmichael. A stage chock full of big hitters - including Messrs Barrett (trombone), McQuaid, Lorenzo Baldasso and Richard Exall (reeds) and virtuoso violinist Emma Fisk - delivered the goods. A set with a difference, Davis looked at Hoagy's actual recording sessions as opposed to his many, much-loved songs. It had been a fine first session. Russell                

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