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17421 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 695 of them this year alone and, so far, 100 this month (Sept. 30).

From This Moment On ...

October

Tue 08: ???

Wed 09: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free. Wed 09: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 5:00-7:00pm. Free.
Wed 09: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 09: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 09: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 09: Shunya, Dudù Kouate & Seb Rochford @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). £21.00.

Thu 10: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 10: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. ‘Collaborations - it happened all the time’.
Thu 10: Indigo Jazz Voices w. the Little Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:45pm. £5.00.
Thu 10: Side Cafe Orkestar @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
The 10: Classic Swing @ Carlisle Rugby Club, Warwick Rd., Carlisle. 8:30pm. £9.
Thu 10: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. With guests Donna Hewitt (sax); Bill Watson (trumpet); Graham Thompson (keys); Ron Smith (bass). Free.

Fri 11: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 11: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 11: Dulcie May Moreno @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 11: The Jazz Quartet + Stratosphonic @ Tynedale Rugby Club, Corbridge. 7:00pm. £15.00. A Rotary Club of Hexham event. The Jazz Quartet (Jude Murphy & co), Stratosphonic (blues/rock). CANCELLED!
Fri 11: Joe Steels Trio @ The Pele, Market Place, Corbridge NE45 5AW. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 11: Crooners @ Tyne Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Fri 11: Mo Scott Band @ Blues Underground, Nelson St., Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

Sat 12: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 12: Michael Woods @ Victoria Tunnel, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £12.00. (£10.00. adv.). Country blues guitar & vocals.
Sat 12: Nauta @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £13.28, £11.16, £9.04. A two-track recording launch gig.
Sat 12: Stuart Turner @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Rockabilly, rhythm & blues etc. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 12: Lapwing Jazz Trio @ The Ship Inn, Low Newton. 8:00pm. Free. New trio: Paula Whitty, Richard Herdman, Jude Murphy.

Sun 13: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 13: Emma Wilson @ Tyne Bar, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sun 13: Catfish Keith @ The Cluny. 7:00pm. Country blues.
Sun 13: Cath Stephens & Paul Grainger @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Stephens & Grainger, one third of a triple bill.
Sun 13: Dulcie May Moreno Quartet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 14: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 14: Black is the Color of My Voice @ Hippodrome, Darlington. 7:30pm. Apphia Campbell’s one-woman show inspired by Nina Simone, performed by Nicholle Cherrie.

Tue 15: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law (piano), Paul Grainger (double bass), Bailey Rudd (drums).

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, March 21, 2024

Something's cookin'


I was recently looking through some old issues of the American jazz magazine JAZZIZ when I came across a series of articles on the theme of jazz and cooking.  The magazine reproduced several recipes from the 1992 book Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats, which, according to JAZZIZ, “captures the essence of the food and music that has moved more than 90 renowned artists, from Dave Brubeck and Sun Ra to Wynton Marsalis and Roy Haynes.”


These recipes included pianist Tommy Flanagan’s Shrimp Eclypso, trumpeter and flugelhorn player Art Farmer’s Chilled Cucumber Soup, saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom’s Cut-Time Capellini (similar to spaghetti), drummer Rashid Ali’s Chicken Anise, and Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman’s Amazonian Duck.  However, the recipe that really caught my eye came under the heading “Jim Hall: Nuts About Soup.”  According to the accompanying article (in JAZZIZ, January 2004), the acclaimed guitarist took a course on “How to Boil Water” (!) after moving to New York.  During this course, he discovered a dish which was to become his favourite: Ribollita, a hearty Tuscan soup based on leftover bread.  Hall recalled making it for John Abercrombie and his wife and said: “It was amazing to me to realise that I could just follow a recipe and it would work out all right.  I got over being intimidated by the whole thing.”

 

Interesting words from a master improviser.  But I guess that all the greats, both in jazz and cooking, need to get the basics right first.

 

So, readers, what dishes would you recommend?  And do you like to improvise in the kitchen?  Please get in touch!

 

Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats by Bob Young and Al Stankus (published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Cover photo © Stewart, Tabori & Chang.) is available from Amazon and elsewhere. Colin Muirhead.

3 comments :

Lance said...

Well I'm not much of a one in the kitchen but I do enjoy the end product of someone else's efforts and never more so than back in the day when jazz and fine dining were a Monday night treat at the Cherry Tree in Jesmond. I never had a bad meal and rarely, if ever, was the music not first class. Too many to list but I particularly recall Pan Fried Hake with Spiced Parsnip Puree. Shallots & Granny Smith apple. All consumed to the voice of Mo Scott and her band - Shangri-la!

Ann Alex said...

Pan Fried Hake sounds delicious

Ann Alex said...

I like to make a pizza using a large Greggs stottie. It is truly jazz-like as the stottie is an improvisation as well as the toppings. And it's locally sourced and an example of co-operation with others because I got the idea from a friend.

I simply slice the stottie through the middle to get a pizza base, fry onions, spread mozzarella cheese and tomato salsa, onions on top, and heat on the oven shelf, gas mark 6 for about 8 minutes or until cooked.
Delicious, cheap, why buy a pizza when you can do it this way. Listen to your favourite CD as you eat!

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