Bebop Spoken There

Emma Rawicz: "In a couple of years I've gone from being a normal university student to suddenly being on international stages." DownBeat January 2026.

The Things They Say!

This is a good opportunity to say thanks to BSH for their support of the jazz scene in the North East (and beyond) - it's no exaggeration to say that if it wasn't for them many, many fine musicians, bands and projects across a huge cross section of jazz wouldn't be getting reviewed at all, because we're in the "desolate"(!) North. (M & SSBB on F/book 23/12/24)

Postage

18219 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 73 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Jan. 24), 73

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Fri 30: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 30: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 30: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 30: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Hotel Gotham, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Fri 30: Pete Roth Trio @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). Feat. Bill Bruford.
Fri 30: Jive Aces @ Alnwick Playhouse. 7:30pm.
Fri 30: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Northern Edge Coffee, Silver St., Berwick. 7:00pm.
Fri 30: Dan Coulthurst Quintet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00 + £1.00. bf (www.wegottickets.com). Coulthurst (trumpet); Joel Stedman (bass clarinet, flute); Nico Widdowson (piano); Fergus Quill (double bass); Theo Goss (drums).

Sat 31: Darling Dollies @ St George’s Church, Jesmond, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Vocal trio.
Sat 31: Brass Fiesta @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 10:30pm. Free.

FEBRUARY 2026

Sun 01: Smokin’ Spitfires @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 12:45pm. £10.00.
Sun 01: Ian Bosworth Quintet @ Chapel, Middlesbrough. 1:00pm. Free. Quintet + guest Bill Watson (trumpet, flugelhorn).
Sun 01: Sax Choir @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 01: Annie & the Caldwells @ The Cluny, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £25.00. adv. Gospel/soul.
Sun 01: Jive Aces @ Alnwick Playhouse. 7:30pm.
Sun 01: Olly Styles Experience + Jenny Baker @ the Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 02: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 02: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 03: Customs House Big Band @ The Masonic Hall, Ferryhill. 7:30pm. Free.
Tue 03: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Joe Steels, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 04: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 04: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 05: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £5.00. Subject:Times of the Day & Trios.
Thu 05: Jeremy McMurray’s Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Arc, Stockton. 8:00pm. Special guest Emma Wilson.
Thu 05: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

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

Friday, May 03, 2024

Press release: Etude: A Study In You And Me | Rehearsal Session @ Brixton Hill Studios


Yesterday was the last rehearsal with the ISQ boys before our gig at the iconic Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho this coming Wednesday the 8th and we were sounding hawt if I may say so myself! I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the writing for the next album  and brought in some new material that we played through yesterday. Really excited about how the new songs are shaping up, featuring some of the most honest writing I’ve ever done.


Book your tickets here:   https://bit.ly/ISQ-PizzaExpressLive-24


New dates in the Autumn and next year will be announced soon to tie in with the release of new music but for now I wanted to do a little throwback to one of the most popular tunes on the first album, - ISQ.

The tune is called “Etude : A Study in You and Me” and was a co-write between myself and brilliant drummer/composer and all-round good guy, Chris Nickolls. It’s one of my favourite ISQ tunes to perform and will definitely be featured in Wednesdays gig. It’s a story about the end of love affair when your lover leaves you for someone else only to try and come back (secretly of course?!) a while later. “Try” being the operative word here as the anger and betrayal is set to music during the epic outro! Ire


And if you’re a lyric nerd like me, here are the words :


Etude: A Study In You And Me

Whispers that slowly came to be what you gave to me
Pondering all the odds of our impossibility
Shadows that chill my heart is one thing you can’t see
Despite the many warning signs I can’t let you be

Take me back to, back to this
Troubled track that I cross,
Won’t take me back, back to this
Troubled track that I cross

Reasons you give and take apart I don’t understand
So I’ll let you walk way from this, I’ll let you be a man
Maybe someday you’ll see we could have had it all
Filled with cold impassivity you watch me as I fall

Take me back to, back to this
Troubled track that I cross,
Won’t take me back, back to this
Troubled track that I cross

Outro :

And so you’re back so secretly
These troubled sighs that I perceive
So I’ll let you go, finish the deed
I hope she’s all the things you need

I know things are tough for lots of people at the moment, and I hope my music can fill your soul just a little bit 💛

Keep it jazzy 🎶

Ire 

 


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