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September
Mon 16: Swing Manouche @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth. 1:00pm. £9.00.
Mon 16: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 16: John Hallam with the James Birkett Trio @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00. A Blaydon Jazz Club 40th anniversary concert!
Tue 17: Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ The Victoria & Albert Inn, Seaton Delaval. 12:30pm. £13.00. Tel: 0191 237 3697. ‘Indian Summer Afternoon Tea’.
Tue 17: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 3:00-5:00pm. Free.
Tue 17: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Joe Steels (guitar); Paul Grainger (double bass); Abbie Finn (drums).
Wed 18: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 18: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 18: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 18: Hot Club of Heaton @ Elder Beer, Heaton, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘third Wednesday in the month’ session.
Thu 19: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 19: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Ragtime piano. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 19: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Kevin Eland, Dan Johnson, Jeremy McMurray, Ron Smith.
Fri 20: Lindsay Hannon’s Tom Waits for No Man @ Gala Theatre, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 20: Rob Hall & Chick Lyall @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Free (donations). SOLD OUT!
Fri 20: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 20: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 20: Leeway @ 1719, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm. The Old Black Cat Jazz Club. CANCELLED!
Fri 20: Gaz Hughes Trio @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Sat 21: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 1:00-2:45pm. Free.
Sat 21: Baghdaddies @ Two by Two, Albion Row, Byker, Newcastle NE6 1RQ. 6:00pm.
Sat 21: Jude Murphy & Alan Law @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 22: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Jason Isaacs @ St James’ STACK, Newcastle. 2:30-4:30pm. Free.
Sun 22: Dulcie May Moreno Quartet @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Richard Herdman @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 22: Remy CB Band @ Blues Underground, Nelson St., Newcastle. 8:30pm. Free. Remi, 2024 Newcastle Uni graduate, superb soul/blues voice!
Sunday, September 15, 2024
NYC jazz notes (14)
Shellac number 4 Alan Dean and his Be-Boppers - Barbados/Gone With the Windmill
The four sides I have by Alan Dean and his Be-Boppers (sic) indicate that Alan Dean (vocal); Reg Arnold (trumpet); Johnny Dankworth (alto sax); Ronnie Scott (tenor sax); Bernie Fenton (piano); Pete Chilver (guitar); Joe Muddel (bass) and Laurie Morgan (drums) were on their way to absorbing the lessons learned by Scott and Dankworth on their legendary transatlantic trips to New York as part of 'Geraldo's Navy'.
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm).
Playlist 15/09/24 (repeated Tuesday 17/09/24)
Seasonal: Boswell Sisters, John Coltrane.
Birthday Memory: Cannonball Adderley.
Requests from Big Easy: Lester Young, Oscar Peterson,
Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan.
Requests: Sergio Mendes (RIP), Bill Evans.
Jeff Barnhart's Silent Film Fest @ Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club - Sept. 14
Jeff Barnhart (piano & commentary)
Saturday, September 14, 2024
NYC jazz notes (13)
Album review: Helena Debono & Charlie Bates - A Thousand Nights
Today's shellac selection: Bob Crosby's Bobcats - It Was a Lover and his Lass/Oh Mistress Mine
R.I.P. Zoot Money (July 17, 1942 - Sept. 8, 2024)
Friday, September 13, 2024
Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ the Lit & Phil - Sept. 13
More shellac! Earl Bostic's Flamingo
Kamasi Washington tour rescheduled
Washington was due to appear at the Glasshouse on October 20. That concert will now take place on April 5, 2025.
If you already have tickets they will be honoured. If you can't make the new date contact the Glasshouse HERE.
In the photo Kamasi (left) can be seen at Cheltenham in 2018 with our reviewer Steve T. Lance
Thursday, September 12, 2024
A Great Afternoon in Brunswick - Sept. 12
Album review: Leslie Pintchik - Prayer For What Remains (Pintch Hard Records)
NYC jazz notes (12)
The Tannery jam session - Sept. 11
Never mind the vinyl, dig the shellac (but don't drop it!)
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Album review: Franco Ambrosetti - Sweet Caress (enja)
I must confess that when I saw the line-up I anticipated something a little different - well, actually quite a lot different! Erskine I've always associated with Jaco and Weather Report, Scofield with Miles, Mingus, Paul Bley and other forward thinkers and Broadbent with, er well, everybody!
Album review: Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa - Inner Spirits (ACT)
Jan Lundgren (piano); Yamandu Costa (guitar)
Piano and guitar albums
are not that common in jazz, perhaps because both instruments seem to occupy
the same part of the musical spectrum. Alternatively, perhaps there should be
more of them, because they seem to occupy the same part of the musical spectrum
which means that, when you get an album like this it sounds like four hands
interweaving so closely together that there are so many ‘can’t tell when one
ends and the other starts’ moments, most of which are moments of joy.
NYC jazz notes (11)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
NYC jazz notes (10)
Bishop Auckland or Newcastle - decisions, decisions (Friday 13)
Monday, September 09, 2024
NYC jazz notes (9)
© Patti |
Alexia Gardner in Manhattan and Newcastle
Pianist Alan
Law has hepped me up to an exciting new singer on the Newcastle scene - Alexia
Gardner.
Alexia has been around the London scene for several years and appeared on a compilation album produced by pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and theatrical producer of jazz-inspired shows, Alex Webb. On the Copasetic Foundation Alexia sang Call Me Lucky which was also the title track. Others on the album were: Vimala Rowe, China Moses, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, David McAlmont, Sandra Nkake, Alexander Stewart, Cherise Coryna, Allan Harris, Jo Harrop and Liane Carroll. Fast company indeed!
Sunday night @ the Globe: The Graham Hardy Eclectic Quartet - Sept. 8
© Ken Drew |
Graham Hardy
(trumpet, flugelhorn); Ben Lawrence (piano); Andy Champion (double bass); John
Bradford (drums)
Mike Hall Quartet @ the Moor Club, Heaton Moor, Stockport - Sept.8
© Jeff Pritchard |
When I tried to buy a train ticket on Saturday morning I was told there would be at least fifteen cancellations on Sunday Sept. 8 so I decided to give this gig a miss. However, I changed my mind when I found out that the 6:44 train from Handforth to Manchester was running and was on time. The only problem was that, unlike last week, the train did not stop at Heaton Chapel so I had to get off at Stockport and catch the 192 bus and backtrack to Heaton Moor Road. The 192 actually goes past the Railway which of course is now closed. Mike Hall was a popular attraction at the Railway and he mentioned that the quartet this evening was the same line-up that he had been going to use there before its unfortunate closure.
Sunday, September 08, 2024
NYC jazz notes (8)
R.I.P. Dan Morgenstern. October 24, 1929, Munich, Germany, September 7, ...
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 08/09/24 (repeated Tuesday 10/09/24)
Requests: Stéphane Grappelli.
Seasonal: Cannonball Adderley.
Requests: Dave Brubeck, Jo Harrop, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Strayhorn, Nat King Cole & His Trio.
What’s coming to the NE: Jeff Barnhart, Neville Dickie.
Memories: Sarah Vaughan, Martin Luther King 'I Have a Dream', Nina Simone, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock
Sonny Rollins Quartet.
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.
Aycliffe Radio is now available on DAB in County Durham & the Darlington area.
More deaths ...
Saturday, September 07, 2024
NYC jazz notes (7)
Woodlawn is on a vast scale. Over the course of four hours and more we saw two other people - one tending a grave, the other on a mission. Some of the many famous names resting/residing here include: George M. Cohan, Damon Runyon, Herman Melville, Dorothy Parker, Otto Preminger and F.W. Woolworth. Our focus was on the jazz legends. Walking with map in hand, the jazz section was that-a-way...
Just Friends @ Dorman's Jazz Club Middlesbrough - Sept 5
After the summer recess the jazz nights restarted with a guest band, comprising five well-known and highly respected local jazz musicians.
The evening began in great style with the appropriately titled Just Friends showing how tight an ensemble they are enhanced by fine solos from Ian, Josh and Garry
not to mention the great backing from Ron on bass and Mark on drums setting
the mood for what was to follow.
Stanley Turrentine's Sugar came next, again with fine solos from keys, guitar and soprano also giving Ron the chance to show his bass skills with an impeccable solo.
Preview: Sting on the Beeb, Ella et al on Sky Arts (Saturday)
An Autumn Playlist
Songs and seasons seem to go together like rhymes and reasons and autumn is up there in contention with the other three quarters of the calendar year. These are some of my favourites:
Lullaby of the Leaves. Just like you can't have Christmas songs without snow, if you're going to compose an autumnal sung you must have leaves. Bernice Petkere and Joe Young did that back in 1933. The Gerry Mulligan Quartet rubber-stamped the song's jazz credentials and Anita O'Day turned it upside down.
Friday, September 06, 2024
NYC jazz notes (6)
Album review: Joel Frahm Trio - Lumination (Anzic Records)
Joel Frahm (tenor sax); Dan Loomis (bass); Ernesto
Cervini (drums)
When the word got out that the Joel Frahm Trio was embarking on a European tour with stops off in the UK at Eastleigh, London and Leeds I knew this would be worth dusting off my Senior Railcard for.
However, first things first, the raison d'être for the tour is Joel Frahm's latest album, Lumination, due for release next month. I'm listening to it as I type and it's an exhilarating experience.
Thursday, September 05, 2024
Album review: Loz Speyer's INNER SPACE - Live in Leipzig (Spherical Records)
NYC jazz notes (5)
As one of the most recognisable public figures of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong could have chosen to live in a swanky apartment overlooking Central Park or in a mansion out on Long Island. The Hamptons and the celebrity lifestyle held little appeal, instead, for one of the greatest jazz musicians of all, Corona was home.
Ann Alexander - Latest.
The following notice appeared in today's Shields Gazette:
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Wednesday, September 04, 2024
NYC jazz notes (4)
The summer into autumn Black Swan jam session - Sept. 3
© Patti |
Press release: Elling steps out with the SNJO across Scotland
An established friend of the SNJO, Chicago-born Elling has chosen music by some of the greatest and most popular songwriters and composers of the past seventy years for his latest visit to Scotland.
Big band classics by Duke Ellington and Count Basie and show tunes by Rodgers & Hart are represented, as are pop songs by the Police and Joe Jackson, whose 1982 transatlantic hit, Steppin’ Out gives these concerts their name.
Album review: Thokozile Collective (Birnham CD)
There ought to be a law against releasing albums like this at the fag end of summer. It should have come out as the last of the late Easter egg wrappers are going in the recycling and the covers are coming off the soft top XR3s and Golf GTIs ready for the first runs of the year. But we are where we are with 47 minutes of music that should have been top of the playlists as the November rains finally stopped in June.
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Album review: 4 in 1 - Monkin' Around Ubuntu Music)
NYC jazz notes (3)
Press release: One Of The Most Heralded Live Performers In The World Jazz Icon Gregory Porter Major Uk Tour For 2025 Including Three London Royal Albert Hall Shows
Tickets on sale from Friday 6th September
Gregory Porter, the internationally acclaimed jazz and soul singer, is set to return to the UK for a series of highly anticipated performances in April/May 2025. The tour will include three special nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he will grace the stage on April 28th, April 29th and May 1st. In addition to his London concerts, Porter will also perform in Brighton, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Bournemouth and Cardiff.
Gregory has
become one of the most successful jazz vocalists of his generation. With a
voice that has been described as "liquid gold," Gregory Porter has
captivated audiences around the world with his soulful baritone and deeply
emotional performances. His unique blend of jazz, soul, and gospel has earned
him critical acclaim and huge global success. Gregory’s return to the UK is a
testament to his enduring appeal and his status as one of the most important
voices in contemporary music.
Monday, September 02, 2024
NYC jazz notes (2)
Jim Collins Quartet @ the Moor Club, Heaton Moor, Stockport - Sept. 1
© Jeff Pritchard |
Jim
Collins (tenor sax); Robin Joiner (keys); John Sandham (bass); Eryl Roberts
(drums)
This was my first visit to the new Sunday night jazz venture in Heaton Moor which hopefully will attract the same sort of audience that used to attend the Railway. I did go to the recent four hour, two band, afternoon session which was held outdoors and I had a great time. On that day, which was on the August Bank Holiday Monday, the trains were running and the train I took stopped at Heaton Chapel station which is a short walk to the Moor Club which is in Heaton Moor.
Sunday night @ the Globe: Modern Vikings - Sept. 1
© Ken Drew |
The evening began with sadness as Debra paid tribute to Ann Alexander (Ann Alex) but that mood lifted as Debra pointed out that both jazz and folk were among Ann's musical passions and that the Modern Vikings drew on both sources.
The sombre opening theme with lots of long notes and rumblings in the undergrowth seemed appropriate but gradually the mood changed. I imagined I was hearing a Scottish lilt to the piece, maybe I was and I could imagine Ann giving it a nod of approval.
Ann Alexander: Funeral details
The funeral of Ann Alexander will take place on Thursday Sept. 19 at South Tyneside Crematorium at 11:15am.
Details re flowers, donations etc. to follow.
R.I.P.
Lance
Sunday, September 01, 2024
Russ Morgan Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead - Sept. 1
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm)
Playlist 01/09/24 (repeated Tuesday 03/09/24)
RIP Brian Ebbatson: Herbie Hancock.
Seasonal: George
Shearing.
Requests from the
Gala, Durham: Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, Erroll Garner.
More Requests: Art Blakey, Louis Armstrong/King Oliver, Dexter Gordon, Paul Desmond, Stan Kenton.
The Path of a Tear is touring (Gateshead's Glasshouse - Sept. 27)
Dates for your diary...Brighton's Verdict (Sept. 21), Gateshead's Glasshouse (Sept. 27, www.theglasshouseicm.org), Pizza Express, Soho (Oct. 1) and on to the Dankworth's fabled Stables, Peggy's Skylight (Nottingham) and more. www.joharrop.com. Russell
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