Join Morgan, Harry Keeble (tenor sax), Mark Williams (guitar) and Andy Champion (double bass) for an eight o'clock start. Admission at the door is a bargain tenner. See you there! Russell
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Plus, you can request tunes 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.
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Another winner from the JNE/Jazz Coop joint promotion squad at the Globe.
The músic by Rod Oughton's Tomorrow's New Quartet may be contemporary but it is well within the boundaries of accessibility for all but the mouldiest of figs and even that (hopefully) dying breed can't have failed to respond to Oughton's interaction with the audience. Apart from being a fine drummer and composer he's a card, as witnessed by his inter-round summaries.
The opening Outro (Intro?), a meandering piece that had the feeling of band and audience psyching each other out - like the mating ritual of two unneutered cats.
Ben van Gelder (alto sax); Deschanel Gordon (piano); Flo Moore (bass); Rod Oughton (drums)
Tomorrow’s New Quartet is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most exciting jazz bands emerging from the British scene. Taking inspiration from Chick Corea’s ‘Return To Forever’ and Keith Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’, Tomorrow’s New Quartet has been thrilling audiences all over the country with its engaging brand of modern jazz.
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.uk/listen
Playlist 09/02/25 (repeated Tuesday 11/02/25)
Requests from the Alan Barnes gig: Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie,
Alan Barnes & Dave Newton, Art Pepper, Tubby Hayes Orchestra, Martin Taylor,
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Gene Harris, Monty Alexander.
New release: Michael Buckley.
Request: Serge Chaloff.
USA Black History Month:
Valentine's Day Preview: Jazz Messengers.
Aycliffe Radio is available on DAB in County Durham & the Darlington
Area.
Brent Laidler (guitar); Mark Buselli (trumpet, flugelhorn); Ned
Boyd (alto sax, flute); Jamie Newman (organ); Richard “Sleepy” Floyd (drums);
Scott Pazara (bass on all tracks except Ballad for B and Without a Tres).
With Hidden Gems, Indiana-based guitarist, composer, arranger, jazz radio host, clinician, and all-around super-interesting gent, Brent Laidler and his outstanding crew of colleagues offers a unique 10-track musical mystery tour - of sorts. Submersing himself into a century of music drawn from fake books and other sources (while avoiding composing simple contrafacts), Laidler brilliantly reconstituted said music, composing terrific original melodic and harmonic material. It is an outstanding recording and fun attempting to recognize the original sources.
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Johnny 'Blue Hat' Davis!
Although he'd played with Sam Fender* on the hallowed turf inside the stadium, last night he entertained the crowd outside. His presence and his music no doubt giving the fans a feel good factor which they in turn transmitted to the team.
Take a bow Mr Blue Hat - Player of the Match. Lance
*Before joining Sam Fender's backing band the tenor sax player was a regular at the old Jazz Café jam sessions.
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Nashville, Jan 31, 2025 – Exceleration Music, the prominent global music company dedicated to advancing the future of independent music proudly announces the acquisition of Mack Avenue Music Group, the globally celebrated collection of jazz labels known for its exceptional roster of artists and award-winning catalogs.
A pleasant vignette from a singer not entirely unknown in the north east. In fact not at all unknown in the north east if you were a regular at the old Jazz Café jam sessions, or at the Globe when, strangely, she shared the bill with the Tenement Jazz Band, or if you were at the Sage (now the Glasshouse) when she was part of the faculty of that cultural centre's musical education programme.
Now firmly established in Manchester this is her second album to be featured here after her 2021 release Friends With Monsters. That one was by her quintet and featured mainly original material. This time it's pared down to just piano accompaniment and some good old good ones.
This will be the first of
several monthly sessions in support of the library. Donations welcome.
Jesmond Library is wholly
volunteer run and funded so, if you can, please consider a donation through justgiving
page at http://www.justgiving.com/jesmond-library
St. George’s Terrace,
Jesmond NE2 2DL.
Photo image © Kate O’Neill
Doors: 12:30pm. Music: 1:00pm. £5.00 on the door.
In 1968 Kenny Wheeler and the John Dankworth Orchestra released Windmill Tilter, an album composed by Kenny Wheeler. Wheeler’s second album, Song For Someone, came out in 1973. In between he wrote and arranged for a big band whose only outlet was the BBC who broadcast the Band’s performances in the 1970s. These tunes and arrangements have been exhumed from that era and make up this album. Some of them (e.g. Smatta (as Smatter) and Song For Someone) have been heard before on albums from the period and, happily, Norma Winstone and Evan Parker have also traversed the arc from those seventies albums to appear on Some Days are Better.
Primorosos is a Portuguese adjective that translates as “exquisite” or “tasteful.” It’s the kind of word that gently slides off one’s tongue and one that perfectly describes Mafalda Minnozzi’s latest album release, Riofonic. As one might surmise, it is a recording that features the musical breezes of Terra do Brazil in abundance as fourteen selections are offered featuring both classic and novel fare.
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The
house was impressive, top end of six figures, inside it was wall to wall
eating, drinking, dancing and goodness knows what
else! Resplendent in his officers mess dress uniform (Guards?) mein
host introduced the House of the Black Gardenia to the rapidly filling mini
ballroom where the swing dancers were straining at the leash ready to
strut their stuff and strut it they did - mein host leading the charge as his forebears may have done at Sebastopol.
Band and dancers were soon rhythmically connected. Saxist, singer Fiona Finden later commented that they were as one with each inspiring the other.
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.uk/listen
Playlist 02/02/25 (repeated Tuesday 04/02/25)
Seasonal: Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington.
Requests: B.B. King & Eric Clapton, George Chisholm, Mark Cherrie
Quartet.
Memories: James P. Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz.
