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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

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).

Fri 16: Giles Strong Quartet @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 16: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 16: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 16: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 16: Darlington Big Band @ The Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 16: Leeds City Stompers @ Billy Bootleggers, Newcastle. 9:00pm. Free.

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

Monday, August 26, 2024

Jazz at the Moor Top, Heaton Moor, Stockport: Ed Kainyek Quartet & Paul Hartley Quartet - August 26

© Jeff Pritchard
Ed Kainyek (tenor/soprano sax); Liam Butler-Webb (keys); James Adolpho (bass); Tim Franks (drums).

This was an open air event to publicise the Moor Top Sunday night jazz nights which will hopefully prove to be as successful as the Railway. There was no admission charge, no raffle, and although the weather was overcast the turnout was quite impressive and when Ed decided to play Summertime the sun decided not to make an appearance but at least the rain stayed away. Ed’s quartet played for the first 2 hours with a short break in the middle and then guitarist Paul Hartley took over with an interesting line-up as follows:

Paul Hartley (guitar); Carol Williams (trombone, keys, vocals); Pete Hartley (bass guitar) Pete  Seminsky (drums).         

As far as I know the finishing time was 6:00pm but I left to get the 6:00pm train so I may have missed a couple of tunes.

Ed Kainyek Quartet set list:  My Foolish Heart; Take 5; Hey Jude; Isn’t She Lovely?; Days of Wine and Roses; Let There be Love; My Funny Valentine; Like Someone In Love; Summertime; Make me a Memory; Oleo; Where is the Love?

Paul Hartley Quartet set list:  Rockin’; Oz; Mambo Inn; You Don’t Know What Love Is; Alfie’s Theme; This Masquerade; Travels ('til 5-45pm).       

Readers who live in the Manchester area may like to know that the rhythm section that Ed used is appearing this Wednesday at Matt and Phreds (8:00pm) when Liam Butler-Webb presents his Oscar Peterson tribute. Mike Farmer

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