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Bebop Spoken There

Spasmo Brown: “Jazz is an ice cream sandwich! It's the Fourth of July! It's a girl with a waterbed!”. (Syncopated Times, July, 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

17395 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 679 of them this year alone and, so far, 74 this month (Sept. 22).

From This Moment On ...

September

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:15-4:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Nothing in Rambling @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. £10.00. + bf. Upstairs. Acoustic blues duo + Michael Littlefield & Lyndon Anderson.
Fri 27: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Downstairs. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 27: Tim Bloomer Collective @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Fri 27: Jo Harrop @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. All-star line-up.
Fri 27: Faye MacCalman @ Jesmond Pool, Newcastle. 8:30pm. Tickets £6.00. from: www.seetickets.com. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & improvised Music event in association with Jesmond Pool. Note 16+ only.

Sat 28: Bellavana @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 6:00pm. Free.
Sat 28: Gramophone Jass Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm (6:00pm doors). Free. A supergroup comprising members of the Tenement Jazz Band, Easy Rollers & Magpies of Swing. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 28: Paul Edis @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 7:30pm. £15.00. + £0.38 bf.
Sat 28: Taupe + Warp/Weft + Jeepe Zeeberg & the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement @ Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £10.00. Tickets from: www.seetickets.com. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & improvised Music event in association with Endless Window & JNE.
Sat 28: Jason Isaacs @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay. 7:00pm. £38.00. (inc. 3-course meal). Isaacs on stage at 9:00pm.

Sun 29: Musicians Unlimited @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 29: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 2:00-4:00pm. Free.
Sun 29: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 29: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 29: Emma Smith with the Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Common Room, Newcastle. 5:30pm (4:45pm doors).
Sun 29: Laubrock/Rainey/Hunter/Pope @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A Newcastle Festival of Jazz & improvised Music event in association with JNE & Jazz Alert.
Sun 29: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Mon 30: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.

October

Tue 01: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Sid White.

Wed 02: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 02: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 02: The Horne Section’s Hit Show @ The Gala, Durham. 7:30pm. SOLD OUT!
Wed 02: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 03: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Practices of Freedom workshop @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Book at: www.eventbrite.com.
Thu 03: Alcyona Mick + Juliana Day @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.00. & £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM (Newcastle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music) in assoc. w. Northern Silents & JNE.
Thu 03: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. Ragtime piano. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 03: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Preview: Alan Barnes is coming to Sunderland - this Friday!

Friday (June 21) there's only one place to be and that's Seventeen Nineteen. Where's that? you ask. It's Sunderland's new community arts venue on Church Street East in Hendon, Sunderland. The great Alan Barnes (alto sax, clarinet) will be there in concert with the Dean Stockdale Trio - that's Dean (piano), Mick Shoulder (double bass) and Abbie Finn (drums)! You don't want to miss this one! It's a 7:30pm start, tickets from: www.eventbrite.co.uk. Russell    

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