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Wed 06: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Wed 06: Michael Bublé @ Durham County Cricket Club, Chester le Street. Doors: 5:00pm.
Wed 06: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 06: 4B @ The Exchange, North Shields. 7:00pm.
Wed 06: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm.
Thu 07: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, North Tyneside. 1:00pm.
Thu 07: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library. 3:00-5:00pm. £1.00. All welcome.
Thu 07: Lara Jones + Echo Juliet @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 07: Thursday Night Prayer Meeting @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free admission (donations).
Thu 07: Maine Street Jazzmen @ Sunniside Social Club, Gateshead. 8:30pm.
Thu 07: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 9:00pm.
Fri 08: Alex Clarke Quartet @ Bishop Auckland Town Hall. 1:00pm. £7.00.
Fri 08: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Fri 08: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 08: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms, Monkseaton. 1:00pm.
Sat 09: Jazz Stage @ Mouth of the Tyne Festival: Zoë Gilby Duo (12 noon); Vieux Carré Jazzmen (1:35pm); Harmony Brass (3:10pm); Ruth Lambert Quartet (4:40pm). Outdoor stage adjacent to Tynemouth Priory.
Sun 10: Tusk X Yeah You @ Live Theatre, Newcastle. 12 noon. £10.00. All day event, line-up inc. Pat Thomas.
Sun 10: Jazz Stage @ Mouth of the Tyne Festival: Rendezvous Jazz (12 noon); River City Jazzmen (1:35pm); House of the Black Gardenia (3:10pm); Classic Swing (4:40pm). Outdoor stage adjacent to Tynemouth Priory.
Sun 10 Vieux Carré Hot 4 @ Spanish City, Whitley Bay. 12 noon.
Sun 10: Tees Valley Jazzmen @ Hammer & Pincers, Preston le Skerne. 1:00pm.
Sun 10: Shunyata Improvisation Group @ Saltwell Park, Gateshead NE9 5AX. 1:00pm.
Sun 10: Am Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 10: Foundry Jazz Ensemble @ The Exchange, North Shields. 3:00pm.
Sun 10: Anth Purdy @ Blues & Bourbon, Newcastle. 4:00pm.
Sun 10: Jazzframe @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 11: Jazz in the Afternoon @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm.
Mon 11: Central Bar Quintet plays Chet Baker Sings @ Central Bar, Gateshead. 7:30pm. Concert performance featuring Pete Tanton + jam session. £5.00 (free admission to sitters-in).
Tue 12: Jam session @ Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. House trio: Alan Law, Paul Grainger, Rob Walker.
Tue 12: Harry Keeble Quartet @ Forum Music Centre, Darlington. 7:30pm.
Monday, July 04, 2022
The Abbie Finn Trio @ The Blues, Jazz & Swing Festival. The Exchange, North Shields - July 3
Ruth Lambert & Martin Craggs @ The Blues, Jazz & Swing Festival. The Exchange, North Shields - July 3
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Steve Pimlott @ the Railway, Stockport - July 3
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Always a popular performer here at the Railway, Steve opened the show with a fine version of Like Someone in Love and followed this with another well known standard Stella By Starlight - a tune I thought got played too often in recent times but mainly by alto players and pianists. Steve sometimes brings an alto sax to his gigs but tonight he concentrated on the larger horn to good effect. He has a fluent boppy style and, as I have mentioned in previous reviews, he reminds me a lot of the great Harold Land, a very underrated tenor man.
Sunday night @ the Globe: Jeffrey Hewer Quartet - July 3
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Ben Powling (tenor sax); Sam Jackson (bass); Richard Moulton
(drums) + Will Reece (vocals).
The first thing you might notice from the band list above is the lack of the bandleader himself who was suddenly rendered incapacitated for this gig. However, the show must go on and the other three band members aided and abetted with some fine vocals from Will Reece (or was it Rees?) produced an evening of top quality straight ahead jazz.
The original compositions for this quartet were composed by Hewer so with the bandleader away the rest began to play standards from the likes of Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham etc.
Sunday, July 03, 2022
The Wild Women of Wylam @ The Blues, Jazz & Swing Festival. The Exchange, North Shields - July 3
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These women of Wylam are wild. I'm not sure if they are wanton but they're certainly wonderful!
The wildness began with what sounded like an orgasmic shriek (if my memory serves me correctly) before Andrea and Jude shared vocals on what may have been called Give me Your Love. This was good. The WWOW are the blonde bombshells of 2022 irrespective of the colour of their hair.
Jude did Twisted courtesy of Wardell Gray and Annie Ross, singing superbly and playing nice bass lines. Andrea sang Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered complete with the verse and a virtuosic, almost a coloratura, finale that left the audience totally bewitched without being at all bothered and bewildered! In between Helen blew a lovely trumpet solo.
Helen was on the money again on Senor Blues; a number that also had Caroline playing some runs that you don't find in Czerny!
Spats Langham's Hot Fingers with Emily Campbell @ Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club - July 2
The House of the Black Gardenia @ The Blues, Jazz & Swing Festival. The Exchange, North Shields - July 2
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King Bees pulled out at the eleventh hour so in stepped the House of the Black Gardenia who themselves had to shuffle the pack with Hardy and McBriarty occupying the trumpet and sax chairs. Rana, after apologising for King Bees' absence, announced that they did have in actual fact two members of KB in the band. Littlefield we knew was one but who was the other. By a process of elimination, I presume that either Rush or Haigh weren't there. Help please.*
The evening began with a taster session by Swing Tyne for wannabe swing dancers and I was impressed at how quickly most of them picked it up - I should have taken part myself!
Saturday, July 02, 2022
Aycliffe Radio: Jazz Time Sundays 6.30pm-8.00pm (repeat Tuesdays 8.00pm-9.30 p.m.)
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.uk/listen/
Playlist 03/07/22. (Repeated
05.07.22)
Request
for Sedgefield PRG, Chris
Barber + Ottilie Patterson.
Request
from the Abbie Finntet:
Oscar Peterson, Rob McConnell, Cannonball Adderley.
Requests
from Darlington Big Band:
Dave Douglas Quartet, Albert Ayler, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz Quartet, Rob
McConnell, Marshall Gilkes/ WDR Big Band, Michael Brecker.
What’s on in the NE : Michael Bublé, Tees Valley Jazzmen, Alex Clarke Quartet.
The Niffi Osiyemi Trio @ The Blues, Jazz & Swing Festival. The Exchange, North Shields - July 1
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But back to the Speakeasy at The Exchange.
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