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Bebop Spoken There

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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

17328 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 612 of them this year alone and, so far, 17 this month (Sept. 5).

From This Moment On ...

September

Tue 10: ???

Wed 11: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 11: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 11: The Tannery Jam Session @ The Tannery, Gilesgate, Hexham. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. A ‘second Wednesday in the month’ jam session.
Wed 11: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 12: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 12: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:30pm. £4.00. ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.
Thu 12: The Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Pete Tanton & co.
Thu 12: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesborough. 8:30pm. Free. THC with guests Donna Hewitt, Bill Watson, Dave Archbold, Adrian Beadnell, Mark Hawkins.

Fri 13: Jeff Barnhart & Neville Dickie @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. Two pianos, two pianists! SOLD OUT!
Fri 13: Noel Dennis Quartet @ The Old Library, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland. 1:00pm. £8.00.
Fri 13: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 13: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 13: Dilutey Juice @ Old Coal Yard, Byker, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £11.00. adv..
Fri 13: Ray Stubbs R & B All-stars @ The Forum, Darlington. 7:30pm. Classic blues.

Sat 14: Jeff Barnhart’s Silent Film Fest @ St Augustine's Parish Centre, Darlington. 12:30pm. Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club.
Sat 14: Customs House Big Band w. Ruth Lambert @ St Paul’s Centre, St Paul’s Gardens, Spennymoor DL16 7LR. 7:00pm (6:45pm doors). Tickets £10.00. from the venue or tel: 01388 813404. A ‘BYOB’ event.
Sat 14: Emma Wilson @ Claypath Deli, Durham. 7:00pm. £12.00. Acoustic blues.
Sat 14: Rat Pack - Swingin’ at the Sands @ Billingham Forum. 7:30pm.

Sun 15: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Jude Murphy, Steve Chambers & Sid White @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 15: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick-upon-Tweed. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 15: Panharmonia @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

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!

Wednesday, September 04, 2024

The summer into autumn Black Swan jam session - Sept. 3

© Patti
Dean Stockdale (piano); Paul Grainger (double bass); Tim Johnston (drums) + Luis Verde (alto sax); Lara Hopper (trumpet); Shivan Ruddick (trumpet); Liam Oliver (guitar); Owen Jones (double bass); Joe ? (drums); Vlada ? (alto sax); Kate O'Niell (vocals); Oscar Nolan (vocals, piano); Theo Nolan (vocals); Robert Johnson (tenor sax); Paul Ruddick (alto sax); Jack Littlewood (drums); Edgar Bell (trumpet); Alec Gamble (guitar); Kath Butcher (vocals); Remi Coulthard Boardman (vocals); Becky Tuck (vocals); Neil Hopper (valve trombone)

It's another couple of weeks or so until the students return enmasse. In the meantime, there was no shortage of the willing (largely non-undergraduate participants, at least two of them not yet out of school) eager to show what they could do. Supported by an ace house trio and a Black Swan jam session audience of supportive regulars (all occupying their usual seats) the evening got underway with Frank Loesser's I've Never Been in Love Before

From here on in, there was a non-stop stream of the willing. There's the willing, the willing and able and, quite simply, the brilliant. Alto saxophonist Luis Verde is in the latter category and his take on In a Sentimental Mood silenced the room. Bar staff at the far end of the room joined in the applause, that's how good Señor Verde was and is. Trumpeters Lara Hopper and Shivan Ruddick, with a combined age of around thirty (!), once again demonstrated they are the coming generation. Alto saxophonist Vlada (a 'twenteen') impressed once again. It looks as though we have a new jam session 'regular' in our midst. Be sure to check out Vlada.

The Nolans - Oscar and Theo - sang Stevie Wonder, Oscar later playing piano (house pianist Dean Stockdale making a beeline for the bar), the Tyne Valley's tenor saxophonist Robert Johnson returned to the Black Swan to play Dat Dere, later joined by the Ruddicks (Shivan and father Paul, alto sax) to blow on Moanin' . Newcastle University music student Jack Littlewood made his jam session debut - excellent! We'll be seeing and hearing more from Jack, that's for sure. 

Luis the Great returned to the stage, blowing alongside fellow alto saxophonist, Paul Ruddick. Drummer Jack hung around, trumpeter Edgar Bell couldn't resist, Luis leading the way on How Deep is the Ocean? As is their wont, Becky and Remi (that's Ms Tuck and Mr Coulthard Boardman) came late to the party to sing Have You Met Miss Jones?. Tyneside's swing dancers were massing (to play not dance) for the grand finale, including Messrs. Alec Gamble and Owen Jones, and, playing valve trombone, the House of the Black Gardenia's Neil Hopper. It had been another good session, more in a fortnight (Tuesday 17), 7:30pm sharp. Russell   

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