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Donovan Haffner ('Best Newcomer' 2025 Parliamentary Jazz Awards): ''I got into jazz the first time I picked up a saxophone!" - Jazzwise Dec 25/Jan 26

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

18146 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 17 years ago. 24 of them this year alone and, so far this month (Jan. 7), 24

From This Moment On ...

JANUARY 2026

Fri 09: The House Trio @ Bishop Auckland Methodist Church. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Fri 09: Nauta @ Jesmond Library, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £5.00. Trio: Jacob Egglestone, Jamie Watkins, Bailey Rudd.
Fri 09: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 09: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 09: Warren James & the Lonesome Travellers @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm. £15.00.
Fri 09: The Blue Kings @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £10.00. (£8.00. adv.). All-star band.

Sat 10: Mark Toomey Quintet @ St Peter’s Church, Stockton-on-Tees. 7:30pm. £12.00. (inc. pie & peas). Tickets from: 07749 255038.

Sun 11: New ’58 Jazz Collective @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 11: Eva Fox & the Sound Hounds @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 12: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 12: Saltburn Big Band @ Saltburn House Hotel. 7:00-9:00pm. Free.

Tue 13: Milne Glendinning Band @ Newcastle House Hotel, Rothbury. 7:30pm. £11.00. Coquetdale Jazz.
Tue 13: Jazz Jam Sandwich @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Wed 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 14: Jam Session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 15: Mark Toomey Quartet @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Free. Quartet + guest Paul Donnelly (guitar).

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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