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Bebop Spoken There

Kurt Elling: ''There's something to learn from every musician you play with''. (DownBeat, December 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

17630 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 904 of them this year alone and, so far, 49 this month (Dec. 20).

From This Moment On ...

December

Sat 21: Lindsay Hannon Quartet @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 2:00pm. £15.00. ‘Swinging with Christmas Songs’.
Sat 21: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sat 21: Jackson’s Wharf Xmas Party @ Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool. 7:00pm. Free. Featuring the New ’58 Jazz Collective.
Sat 21: Brass Fiesta @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 10:30pm. Free.

Sun 22: Hot Club du Nord @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:00pm. £15.00. + bf. Xmas party. SOLD OUT!
Sun 22: Red Kites Jazz @ Gibside Chapel, nr. Rowlands Gill. 1:00pm. Admission charge applies.
Sun 22: Paul Skerritt @ Hibou Blanc, Newcastle. 2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.
Sun 22: Ruth Lambert Trio @ The Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 22: Revolutionaires @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Superb rhythm & blues outfit.
Sun 22: Laurence Harrison, Paul Grainger & Mark Robertson @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Line-up TBC.
Sun 22: The Globe Xmas Party @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Live music (musicians TBC).
Sun 22: Ray Stubbs R & B All-Stars @ Zerox, Sandhill, Newcastle. 7:00pm (doors).

Mon 23: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Wheatsheaf, Benton Sq., Whitley Road, Palmersville NE12 9SU. Tel: 0191 266 8137. 1:00pm. Free. CANCELLED!
Mon 23: Edison Herbert Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 4:00pm. Free.
Mon 23: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Mon 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.

Tue 24: Lindsay Hannon & Mark Williams @ Ernest, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 11:00am-1:00pm. Free.
Tue 24: Paul Skerritt @ Mambo Wine & Dine, South Shields. 1:00pm. Free. Vocalist Skerritt working with backing tapes.

Wed 25: Wot? No jazz!

Thu 26: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free. TBC.
Thu 26: The Boneshakers @ Tyne Bar, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. The 17th annual Boneshakers’ Shindig.

Fri 27: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 27: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free. Business as usual!.
Fri 27: Jason Isaacs @ Seaburn STACK, Seaburn. 3:30-5:30pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 27: Michael Woods @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Country blues guitar & vocals.

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

Saturday, September 07, 2024

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:

Early Autumn began life as an add-on to Ralph Burns' Summer Sequence suite for Woody Herman and featured a beautiful solo by Stan Getz who recorded it several times later in a variety of settings. Johnny Mercer added lyrics and there were vocal versions by, among others, Ella Fitzgerald and Jo Stafford

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.

Autumn Leaves - originally Les Feuilles mortes by Hungarian composer Joseph Kosma - entered the jazz world when Johnny Mercer translated the lyric to English much to the delight of Nat 'King' Cole and a thousand others. Erroll Garner's version on his album Concert by the Sea ranks as one of the best jazz recordings of the tune although every body has had a crack at it one time or another.

September in the RainThe leaves of brown may have, according to Harry Warren and Al Dubin, came tumbling down but for the George Shearing Quintet they were green backed dollar bills. The first of many great hits for the quintet. Dinah Washington also did wonders with the song.


The Things We Did Last Summer may seem out of place here but the line The leaves began to fade, like promises we made puts the record straight. Words and music by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne provided fodder for Sinatra and (again) jo Stafford. Lou Donaldson recorded a blistering version on Blue Note.

September Song by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson may have achieved immortality with Walter Huston's half sung/half spoken recording but for jazz fans it was Chet Baker who got the gold medal if not the gold disc.

Autumn in New York is a beauty. Vernon Duke hit the spot with this one. Sinatra, Chet, Zoot, Stan and just about everyone who's sang in the shower has had a go. My personal fave is from Charlie Parker With Strings.

'Tis Autumn, composed by one Henry Nemo, and recently revived, rather splendidly, by Alan Barnes and Dave Newton on their album of the same name is handy as an antidote to the threat of winter. Earlier gems include a quartet recording by Stan Getz and the classic vocal version by George Evans with Geraldo and his Orchestra.


Autumn Serenade. No need to look further than the version by Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane. Vocal and tenor magic on a song by Peter De Rose and Sammy Gallop. Kurt Elling also makes a decent fist of it. 





Sat 07: Nathan Lawson @ Staiths Café, Autumn Drive, Gateshead NE8 2BZ. 6:00pm.  
I don't know if guitarist Nathan Lawson will play any of the above at his gig tonight but check out the address! Lance 

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