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Bebop Spoken There

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Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

Postage

17410 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 684 of them this year alone and, so far, 89 this month (Sept. 28).

From This Moment On ...

September

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 (4:30pm doors).
Sun 29: Jazz Jam Sandwich! @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle.7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
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.

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. Guest band night w. '58 Jazz Collective led by trumpeter Kevin Eland with Paul Donnelly (guitar); Donna Hewitt (saxes); Dave Archbold (keys); John Daniel (bass); Terry Popple (drums). Free.

Fri 04: Satoko Fujii @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £8.00. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 04: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 04: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 04: Amirtha Kidambi w. Manon McCoy @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 6:20pm. £8.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. Gem Arts, JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Ziv Taubenfeld/Olie Brice/Kresten Osgood + Andy Champion + Izumi Kimura & Gerry
Hemingway @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Fri 04: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: As I Sing & Breathe @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. ‘Songs & Improvisations’ - Nicols, Dalling & guests.
Fri 04: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Saltburn Community Hall. 7:30pm.
Fri 04: John Rowland Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 05: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Musical Boxing Training @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 2:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. ‘A workshop for musical improvisers’. An event in a boxing ring!
Sat 05: Lewis Watson Quartet @ Wylam Village Institute, Church Road, Wylam NE41 8AP. Doors 7:00pm. Tickets £15.00. + £1.50. bf, available from: www.gigantic.com.
Sat 05: Joseph Carville Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Bright Street Big Band @ Washington Arts Centre. From 7:00pm. £12.00. Bright Street Big Band on stage at 7:30pm, preceded at 7:00pm by a swing dance taster session.
Sat 05: J.A.M. String Collective + Tara Cunningham + The Flame @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 7:20pm. £10.00. + bf. NFOJIM in assoc. w. JNE & Lit & Phil.
Sat 05: Heavy Drunk @ Anarchy Brewery, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £15.00. + £1.50. bf. ‘Mississippi Delta Blues Experience’ feat. Heavy Drunk, Watermelon Slim & Leonardo Giuliani.
Sat 05: Maggie Nicols & Tim Dalling: Musical Boxing Night @ The Tute, Ridley Terrace, Cambois NE24 1QS. 7:30pm. Free. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com. Nicols, Dalling ao. An event in a boxing ring!
Sat 05: Milne-Glendinning Band @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free.
Sat 05: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Red Lion, Earsdon. 8:00pm. £3.00.
Sat 05: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Swarland Village Hall NE65 9JG. 8:00pm. £12.00.

Monday, June 24, 2024

Richard Wetherall Trio @ the Railway, Stockport - June 23

© Jeff Pritchard
Richard Wetherall (piano); Bim Williams (bass); Eryl Roberts (drums).

Richard likes to play the house upright and he always gets a great sound out of it making it sound like a new instrument.  On drums was Eryl Roberts and, on bass. Bim Williams who is also well known for being a first rate guitarist. As Richard explained, this was an acoustic trio with no amplifiers involved, not even on the double bass.  


The opening number was a tribute to the influential pianist Ahmed Jamal and his famous album Live at the Pershing. But Not For Me was the tune selected. This is an LP that I've never owned but which all my pianist friends seemed to have.  


Like Richard I am a big fan of Ray Bryant and I enjoyed the trio’s version of Cubano Chant which had some challenging bass and drums parts but Eryl and Bim did a fine job. I used to own the original EP and I remember Jo Jones being outstanding on this great tune. 


A total of eleven tunes were played and it was a very interesting selection covering many styles, ballads, bossa nova, show tunes, bebop, something for every taste. One that stood out for me was an ultra-fast Relaxin’ at Camarillo a real finger buster containing a fine bass solo from Bim.  


A superb gig and you can hear Richard Wetherall here again on June 30 with the Munch Manship Quartet.  On June 25, Gair Carson is featured with the Paul Hartley Quartet. Mike Farmer


But Not For Me; Summer Samba; Cubana Chant; The Nearness of You; Days of Wine and Roses; Noreen's Nocturne; I Should Care; Accentuate the Positive; Don Quixote; Relaxin’ at Camarillo; Many Rivers To Cross.

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