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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!

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

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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

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

Thursday, December 07, 2023

Top Ten archival albums.

This year has, once again, unearthed many gems from within various vaults and dusty cellars. These are just some of them and for me to rate them like a top twenty chart is ludicrous! Nevertheless, here I go with the proviso that had I to do it again tomorrow it would be totally different!

1: Sonny Stitt - Boppin' in Baltimore (Jazz Detective)

2. Ahmad Jamal - Emerald City Nights, 1966-1968 (Jazz Detective)

3. Johnny Griffin - Live at Ronnie Scott's (Gearbox Records)

4. Sonny Clark - The Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic)

5. Chet Baker - Blue Room  (Jazz Detective)

6. Bill Evans - Tales, Live in Copenhagen (Resonance)

7. Luis Russell - At the Swing Cats Ball (Dot Time)

8. Shirley Scott - Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank (Reel to Reel)

9. Basie All Stars - Live at Fabrik Vol. 1 (Jazzline)

10. Cal Tjader - Catch the Groove (Jazz Detective).

So many more, Mingus, Brubeck, Walter Bishop Jr., Sal Mosca etc. You could put the names in a snap-brim hat or a Fedora give them a shuffle, draw them out blindfolded and, even if the result was totally different it would still be credible. Lance

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1 comment :

Paul Grainger said...

Giving in to the wind and rain I spent tonight listening to some of my favourite records (at least tonight's favourites), and had a quick browse of BSH.
As you say, Lance, a list as short as 10 will change even as it's being written down. Thoughts/coincidences from one leads you to think of another.
Anyway, for anyone who cares, tonight I have been mostly listening to:

1. Oscar Peterson and the bassists (Ray Brown, Niels Pederson) - Montreux '77 (Pablo)
2. Joe Pass/Milt Jackson/Ray Brown/Mickey Roker - All Too Soon: Quadrant Toasts Duke Ellington (Pablo)
3. Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach - Money Jungle (United Artists Jazz)
4. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (Blue Note)
5. Jutta Hipp/with Zoot Sims - Jutta Hipp (Blue Note)
6. Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary)
7. The Milcho Leviev Quartet - Blues For The Fisherman (Mole Jazz)
8. Hampton Hawes - Spanish Steps (Black Lion/Polydor)
9. Joe Williams - At Newport '63 (RCA Victor)
10. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis Again (Verve)

...and as I'm finishing the list I'm already listening to Five Way Split's All The Way (Ubuntu), and while looking for that I found a great old Fletcher Henderson collection.. Do I write a top 20, or just choose accept that it would end up as a list of 1000 and go on all night?

Thursday, December 07, 2023 11:35:00 pm

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