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great pleasure we announce the 8th year of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music.
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November
Wed 13: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 13: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 13: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 13: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 13: corto.alto @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors); 7:30pm (DJ set); 8:15pm. (support act); 9:00pm corto.alto. £14.00. + bf.
Thu 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 14: Faye MacCalman & John Pope @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 1:15pm. Free.
Thu 14: Student Performances @ King’s Hall, Newcastle University. 4:00pm. Inc. Olly Styles (saxophone).
Thu 14: Happy Tuesdays @ Ye Olde Cross, Ryton. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 14: John Stowell & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Top class US/UK guitar duo!
Thu 14: King Bees @ The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Superb Chicago blues band. Note, Struggle Buggy will no longer be appearing.
Thu 14: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. Guests: Jeremy McMurray (keys); Kevin Eland (trumpet); Mark Toomey (alto sax); Adrian Beadnell (bass).
Fri 15: Nicola Farnon Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 15: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 15: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 15: Tim Kliphuis Trio @ Morpeth Methodist Church, Morpeth NE61 1HU. 7:30pm. £18.00.; £3.00. student (over 18); Free 18 or under. A Morpeth Music Society event. Kliphuis (violin), Nigel Clark (guitar), Roy Percy (double bass).
Fri 15: Lindsay Hannon’s Blues Trio @ 1719, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. £12.00. + bf.
Fri 15: Groovetrain @ The Exchange 1856, North Shields. 7:00pm. £22.50. + bf. Groovetrain’s ‘Big Night Out’.
Sat 16: Liane Carroll: Jazz Vocal Weekend Workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 9:00am-5:00pm. £95.00. Day 1/2. SOLD OUT!
Sat 16: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm.
Sat 16: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 16: Brand New Heavies @ Boiler Shop, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors). £75.00. + bf; £30.00. + bf.
Sun 17: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 17: Liane Carroll: Jazz Vocal Weekend Workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 9:00am-5:00pm. £95.00. Day 2/2. SOLD OUT!
Sun 17: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 17: Liane Carroll @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Sun 17: Julian Lage @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm. Lage, solo guitar.
Mon 18: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 18: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free.
Tue 19: Christine Tassan et Les Imposteures @ Bowes & Gilmonby Parish Hall, Co. Durham. 7:30pm. £14.00.; £7.00. child.
Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Mark Robertson.
Tue 19: Jeremy McMurray & the Pocket Jazz Orchestra @ Billingham Catholic Club. 7:30pm. £5.00. from 07757 062798 or at the door.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Press release: Tickets Now On Sale! Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Album review: Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step Band, Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore HCR28)
Northern jazz promoters are invited to apply for bursaries up to £1000
Jazz North’s latest support scheme welcomes applications from
grassroots and independent promoters working in jazz
The bursaries will support fees and costs for northern emerging artists and support acts
New Northern is Jazz North’s promoter bursary to support live emerging talent. It supports promoters to programme emerging northern artists by underwriting risk and helping pay essential costs.
Designed both to support emerging artists in the north and give an injection of cash to promoters who need it, this easy-access scheme offers a quick intervention to northern grassroots promoters facing difficult financial circumstances.
Chris Bye, Jazz North CEO, says: “
Promoters are the beating heart of local jazz scenes. With this next round New Northern, Jazz North continues a long tradition of support for our regional promoters and programmers.
Jazz North is proud to support those bringing through the next wave of talent and who remain essential to the northern jazz ecology.”
Monday, July 29, 2024
Sunday night @ the Globe - The Jeffrey Hewer Collective - July 28
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Set sail with Sassy, Cannonball, a Duke, a Count and more (Sunday 28)
Later with JRR (Sunday 28)
Don't get caught out! This afternoon's edition of Jazz Record Requests starts at the later time of 5:30pm. Join Alyn Shipton on BBC Radio 3 for another selection of listeners' requests. Russell
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 28/07/24 (repeated Tuesday 30/07/24)
Summer requests from Opus 4: Georgia Cécile, George Chisholm, Nat Gonella and His Georgians.
Durham Brass: Hot 8 Brass Band.
Dublin-based Livia Records label releases a piece of jazz guitar history: they announced the September release of a previously unissued recording by two of the world’s leading jazz guitarists, Jim Hall and Louis Stewart. The recording took place in Dublin at Christmas 1982: Louis Stewart & Jim Hall.
Tonight @ the Globe
"The Jeffrey Hewer Collective is an exciting and dynamic band that performs jazz music in a contemporary style.Promoting the release of their latest album, the band will play selections from the recording as well as interpretations of jazz classics, bebop burners, blues and ballads. Expect songs by legends such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Joe Henderson as well as original music and arrangements inspired by the giants of jazz.
Dos Guitars Trio/Nomade Swing @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle - July 27
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle - July 27
Newcastle is a party city and never more so than on a Saturday night. There were probably more revellers per square yard than you'd likely find on Sauchiehall Street on New Year's Eve.
The pubs and bars were overflowing and spreading out on to the city centre. It was like Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street. All that was missing was the music. Well not quite ... From the Prohibition Bar on the corner of Pink Lane and Forth could be heard the polyphonic weaving of clarinet and trombone calling the children home.
The Bold Big Band @ The Old Coal Yard, Newcastle - July 26
A Newcastle Fringe event, a late Friday evening gig, doors open to the elements, there was every chance the Bold Big Band would be heard loud and clear across the Tyne to Gateshead and beyond. As we were on the premises of the Northern Alchemy Brewery the pick had to be In Orbit (4.5%), described as a 'classic winter session stout'. Minutes before the down beat members of the band were busy 'socialising'...hic!
Friday, July 26, 2024
Some of my best friends are books written by or about Ronnie Scott and the club he co-founded
And there were quite a few places to start. My sagging bookshelves contained at least seven tomes related to the late saxophonist and celebrated club owner. Only Sinatra had more space shelf and, if I include peripheral items such as Simon Spillett's biography of Tubby Hayes, The Long Shadow of the Little Giant, Peter Dawn's Phil Seamon Percussion Genius and Peter King's autobiography Flying High then the gap narrows - at least in my personal library it does.
I almost missed this one!
The books, like the music, are well worth checking out and, most of the time unputdownable. Lance
Thursday, July 25, 2024
British Jazz Hall of Fame (11 - 20)/Living Legends (12 - 20)
British Jazz Hall of Fame (11 - 20)
The Ronnie Scott's Story @ The Fire Station, Sunderland - July 24
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Album review: Phil Bancroft Quartet - Headlong (www.myriadstreams.com)
The CD arrived in a cardboard envelope along with another similarly packaged disc with no other information to guide me as to wherever it led. This was back in May and, not surprisingly, they were quickly buried under the daily avalanche of albums that are close to breaking the postwoman's back. She rarely closes the gate as she's probably thinking 'what's the point? I'll be back tomorrow unless I've got a slipped disc.'
Brian Ebbatson funeral details.
© Malcolm Sinclair |
Further details will be announced when known.
More about Brian, a highly respected figure on the north east jazz scene, can be found HERE.
To reiterate the words and thoughts of all who knew him, may he REST IN PEACE. He will be sadly missed. Lance
John Mayall RIP
(Editor's note: 2011 John Mayall review HERE.)
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Duke Ellington and Malcolm Mitchell
Monday, July 22, 2024
British Jazz Hall of Fame/Living Legends 2024
Sunday night @ the Globe: Ben Crosland Quartet - July 21
Ben Crosland (semi-accoustic
bass guitar); Rod Mason (soprano/tenor/alto saxes): Dean Stockdale (piano);
Dave Tyas (drums)
This year's
Newcastle Jazz Festival may have been knocked back until next year but, judging
by the gigs across the region these past few days, you wouldn't have thought
so.
Thursday, the
choice was between American alto player Brad Linde at the Globe or his fellow
countryman trumpet player Theo Croker at the Glasshouse. Two American names in
Newcastle on the same night!
On Friday, another
great altoist, Spain's Luis Verde, played a lunchtime gig at the Lit & Phil
then hightailed it down the A1(M) to Darlington for an evening gig at Opus 4.
Alternatively, you could have taken the road less travelled to Sunderland
where the Zoë Gilby Trio were spreading their message at the Seventeen Nineteen
(1719).
Saturday night if you'd just got paid you could have ripped it up with Snake Davis and Helen Watson at Chopwell Community Centre then, to round off the 'festival', Sunday night at the Globe beckoned...did it not!
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The Darlington Big Band @ Dorman’s Jazz Club Middlesbrough - July 18
Once again this band of 17 top class musicians led by saxophonist Richie
Emmerson gave a good sized and knowledgeable audience a night of varied and
professionally arranged big band compositions.
In true Stan Kenton style they opened with the Lennie Niehaus arrangement of On the Street Where You Live with its full big band sound, giving the night a great start. This was followed by the Count Basie number Moten Swing with a nice tenor solo from Richie and trumpet from Bill Watson.
Press release: Tonight @ the Globe - Ben Crosland Quartet
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 21/07/24 (repeated Tuesday 23/07/24)
Summer Vibes: Modern Jazz Quartet, John Settle, Gary Burton.
Requests from the John Settle gig: Eddie Condon,
Oscar Peterson Trio, Oliver Nelson.
Durham Brass: Duke Ellington/Harry Carney, Leo P
- Brasshouse.
Requests: Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins, Randy Brecker, Eric Marienthal, Lester Young.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Album review: Antonio Adolfo - Love Cole Porter (AAM Music)
Adolfo has had a career lasting 60 years during which time he has released 25 albums one of which reached the BSH Building back in 2021 and was reviewed HERE.
On this album we have a cleverly arranged fusion of jazz and various Brazilian rhythms on well known Cole Porter songs. As Adolfo points out, there is more to Brazilian jazz than samba and bossa. This I discovered as I found myself constantly referring to the notes to identify the different rhythms.
Luis Verde @ Opus 4 Jazz Club - July 19
© Trevor Finn |
Friday, July 19, 2024
Luis Verde with the Dean Stockdale Trio @ the Lit & Phil, Newcastle - July 19
Brian Ebbatson RIP
Brian Ebbatson died today (Friday 19 July). Brian was a keen supporter of the regional jazz scene, helping out at various venues and events. A member of the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, Brian and his wife Linda, could often be found serving teas and coffees, arranging seating, writing programme notes for the monthly lunchtime jazz concert series and much more.
Theo Croker @ the Glasshouse, Gateshead - July 18
It was with a sense of trepidation that I approached the entrance to Sage Two at the Glasshouse. The prophets of doom had warned me that it would be beyond my comprehension.
Age-wise it was a more varied
audience than usually turns up at a jazz gig and my antiquity showed when I
presented a paper ticket as opposed to my phone. The word Luddite sprung to mind as I sheepishly made my way in.
The audience knew what they were here for and whooped and hollered before a note had been blown in anger. I, Luddite that I am, allowed myself a polite hand-clap.
Brad Linde's Continentals @ The Globe, Newcastle - July 18
© Ken Drew |
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Greg Abate @ the Lescar, Sheffield - July 17
© Jeff Pritchard |
I have visited the Lescar on at least one other occasion which was to see US guitar legend Mundell Lowe who appeared alongside my friend Trefor Owen. However, this was a long time ago and I have a feeling the Lescar may have been situated at a different location to its present one.
When I had a car, my last day driving was returning from a Clark Tracey gig at the Meadows in Sheffield. I well remember it was a hairy drive home along the unlit Snake Pass. Sheffield, like its close neighbour Leeds, has long been a great jazz town but, on this occasion, getting there proved to be extremely diificult due to many factors but it involved things like non-existent hotel bookings, getting in and out of taxis, having to change coaches at Leeds, the list goes on but I won’t bore you with further details.
Album review: Pat Metheny - MoonDial (BMG)
Pat Metheny (nylon strung Linda Manzer baritone guitar)
This isn't the first time that Metheny has recorded on a baritone guitar crafted by luthier Linda Manzer. Previous albums, One Quiet Night (2003) and What's it All About? (2011) featured the instrument. However, the guitar on this one is different owing to the use of a new kind of nylon string made in Argentina enabling him to use a tuning system he has previously only been able to set up using steel strings.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Album review: Norma Winstone & Kit Downes - Outpost of Dreams (ECM)
Norma Winstone (voice); Kit Downes (piano)
Although there are only two performers on this thought-provoking ECM album there is so much going on that it is nigh on impossible to fully comprehend the meaningful music being created.
That Norma Winstone has the purist toned voice of any singer on today's jazz scene is a fact, a done deal. Despite having been active as a vocalist/lyricist for circa 60 years, unlike many singers, the voice has never lost its signature purity or the pitch-perfect delivery that is rarely heard outside of the Royal Opera House whilst her lyrics are poetry of the highest order.
The Just Friends Black Swan jam session - July 16
Album review: Louis Stewart & Jim Hall (Livia Records LRCD 2402*)
Jim Hall, Louis Stewart (guitars)
I posted the press release to this album on July 12 so, to save me dishing up a mish-mash of the background to this 1982 Dublin concert go HERE.
Every word that the folk at Livia put out is true. This is more than an excellent guitar album, although it is most certainly that, it's also an album that can stand alongside any jazz recording irrespective of instrumentation or performer.
Stella by Starlight has both guitarists feeding off each other: solos and supportive chords, interchanging roles, dual lines crisscrossing like on a Bach fugue or a piece by the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Album review: Veronica Thomas - They Say It's Wonderful (Nica Carrington Productions)
Thomas' debut album. Well, er, actually it's her second except that for her previous album, Times Like These (reviewed HERE) her moniker was Nica Carrington. Confused? Me too. However, the name of the record label offers a clue (see heading) and if you skip down to the lower graphic all will be revealed.
Still Veronica or Nica, Thomas or Carrington, what's in a name? At the end of the day she could be called Fanlight Fanny and it wouldn't detract from the voice which is absolutely delightful and there's the rub. NYC where she now lives and LA where the album was recorded is awash with vocalists who have voices that are absolutely delightful. Other parts of the world too.
The Nathan Lawson Trio @ Blaydon Jazz Club - July 15
© Roly Veitch |
Monday, July 15, 2024
Press release: Sentient Beings – Truth is Not the Enemy (Discus Music)
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Album Review: Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (ropeadope)
Ms Benjamin stares out of the cover of this album with her trademark defiance. If you’re looking at your audience like that, you better have something to back you up. In the absence of an army, she has joy and energy, attitude and talent to spare. This is a live-in-the-studio recording in front of a small audience at Bunker Studios in Brooklyn. I believe that anyone attending who failed to confirm loudly that they were feeling ‘ALRIGHT!’ was advised to pack a bag and move to New Jersey. Five of the nine tracks are revisits of pieces from her 2023 album, Phoenix, and two (Trane and My Favorite Things) are her tributes to, and acknowledgements of the influence on her music of, John and Alice Coltrane.
King Bees @ Tyne Bar - July 14
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 14//07/24 (repeated Tuesday 16/07/24)
Summer: Sarah Vaughan.
Summer: Chet Baker Quartet.
Requests from the Lonnie Donegan Story at Darlington New Orleans Club: Big Bill Broonzy, Woody Guthrie, Beryl Bryden, Cannonball Adderley,
Ella Fitzgerald, Luis Russell and His Orchestra (Papa Jo Jones), Coleman
Hawkins Quintet, Baby Jools & the Jazzaholics.
Request in memory of Richard: David Sanborn.
Les Jazz Rebels @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival - July 13
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Album review: Sean Hong Wei & Jeremy Monteiro - The New Jersey Sessions (Jazz Note)
Friday, July 12, 2024
Jazz on the Tyne – What’s On & What’s New, late July 2024
You can listen to the show anytime HERE. Plus, you can request music for future programmes, or pass on news or feedback by emailing Colin at:
jazz.tyne.hive@gmail.com or by heading to www.jazzonthetyne.org.
Threeway on 3, then 4 at the Globe
By way of a taster, albeit featuring a different line-up, Ben
Crosland's Threeway (bassist Crosland with Steve Waterman, trumpet and Steve Lodder, piano) will be performing live in BBC Radio 3's In Tune studio this Friday afternoon at five o'clock. Russell
Preview: Les Jazz Rebels @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (Saturday July 13)
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- Northern jazz promoters are invited to apply for b...
- Sunday night @ the Globe - The Jeffrey Hewer Colle...
- Set sail with Sassy, Cannonball, a Duke, a Count a...
- Later with JRR (Sunday 28)
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Tonight @ the Globe
- Dos Guitars Trio/Nomade Swing @ Billy Bootleggers,...
- Mississippi Dreamboats @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastl...
- The Bold Big Band @ The Old Coal Yard, Newcastle -...
- Some of my best friends are books written by or ab...
- British Jazz Hall of Fame (11 - 20)/Living Legends...
- The Ronnie Scott's Story @ The Fire Station, Sunde...
- Album review: Phil Bancroft Quartet - Headlong (ww...
- Brian Ebbatson funeral details.
- John Mayall RIP
- Duke Ellington and Malcolm Mitchell
- British Jazz Hall of Fame/Living Legends 2024
- Sunday night @ the Globe: Ben Crosland Quartet - J...
- The Darlington Big Band @ Dorman’s Jazz Club Middl...
- Press release: Tonight @ the Globe - Ben Crosland ...
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Album review: Antonio Adolfo - Love Cole Porter (A...
- Luis Verde @ Opus 4 Jazz Club - July 19
- Luis Verde with the Dean Stockdale Trio @ the Lit ...
- Brian Ebbatson RIP
- Theo Croker @ the Glasshouse, Gateshead - July 18
- Brad Linde's Continentals @ The Globe, Newcastle -...
- Greg Abate @ the Lescar, Sheffield - July 17
- Album review: Pat Metheny - MoonDial (BMG)
- Album review: Norma Winstone & Kit Downes - Outpos...
- The Just Friends Black Swan jam session - July 16
- Album review: Louis Stewart & Jim Hall (Livia Reco...
- Album review: Veronica Thomas - They Say It's Wond...
- The Nathan Lawson Trio @ Blaydon Jazz Club - July 15
- Press release: Sentient Beings – Truth is Not the ...
- Album Review: Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix Reimagine...
- King Bees @ Tyne Bar - July 14
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Les Jazz Rebels @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival ...
- Album review: Sean Hong Wei & Jeremy Monteiro - Th...
- Jazz on the Tyne – What’s On & What’s New, late Ju...
- Threeway on 3, then 4 at the Globe
- Preview: Les Jazz Rebels @ Edinburgh Jazz & Blues ...
- Press release: Duo with Jim Hall leads Livia's lat...
- Album Review: Karen Mack – Catch & Keep (Bandcamp)
- Another one bites the dust. The Holystone, North T...
- George Davidson RIP
- Album Review: Mike Westbrook – Band of Bands (West...
- Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (re...
- Blue plaque for Adelaide Hall.
- Jim Rotondi (August 28, 1962 - July 8, 2024)
- Album review: Sarah Hanahan - Among Giants (Blue E...
- Sunday night @ the Globe: Russ Morgan Quartet - Ju...
- 4B @ the Ticket Office, Whitley Bay - July 7
- Album review: Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet - Som...
- Newcastle Jazz Festival 2024 CANCELLED!
- Classic Swing @ the Crescent Club, Cullercoates - ...
- Album review: Ken Peplowski - Live at Mezzrow (Cel...
- Preview: Russ Morgan Quartet @ the Globe on Sunday...
- Album review: Gerald Cannon - Live at Dizzy's Club...
- Black Swan jam session - July 2
- Preview: The Ronnie Scott's Story @ The Fire Stati...
- EP review: MGB - Me, Him, You
- The Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderla...
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