Manchester’s longest-running music festival is back this Summer for 10 days of jam-packed festival fun and musical vibes across the city starting this Friday, May16, to Sunday, May 25)!
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MAY 2025
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Wed 14: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Recital (stage 2): Leah Kirk (voice) @ The Band Room, Music Studios, Assembly Lane, Newcastle University. 3:00pm. Free.
Wed 14: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 14: Tannery jam session @ The Tannery, Hexham. 7:00pm.
Wed 14: Jerron Paxton @ Cluny 2, Newcastle. 7:30pm (doors). £24.20. Excellent country blues multi-instrumentalist.
Wed 14: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. BACK IN BUSINESS, all welcome!
Thu 15: Jazz Appreciation North East @ Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle NE1 7BJ. 2:00pm. £4.00. Subject: The Greatest in Jazz - Guitarists.
Thu 15: Pete Tanton & the Cuban Heels @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 15: New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 8:00pm (7:00pm doors). John Garner & John Pope.
Fri 16: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 16: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 16: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 16: Sophie Speed with the Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 16: Jason Isaacs @ St. James’ STACK, Newcastle. 1:00-2:45pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 16: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Exchange Sq., Middlesbrough. 4:00-6:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Fri 16: Giles Strong Quartet @ Longframlington Memorial Hall. 7:00pm (doors). Tickets: £12.00. from 01665 570984.
Fri 16: Hot Club du Nord @ St Cuthbert’s Centre, Crook. 7:30pm. £10.00.
Fri 16: Peter Donegan & Anthony Donegan @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm. ‘Lonnie Donegan - The Stories’.
Sat 17: Teresa Watson Band @ Billy Bootleggers, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 4:00pm. Free. Blues.
Sat 17: The Society Quartet @ Hilton Garden Inn, Sunderland. 6:00pm. Tel: 0191 500 9494. £26.00 (inc. two course meal). Line-up: Jason Holcomb, Hannah Taylor, Alix Shepherd & Abbie Finn.
Sat 17: Milne Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 17: Archie Brown & the Young Bucks @ Billy Bootleggers, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. Rhythm & blues, Americana etc.
Sat 17: Rockin’ Turner Brothers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Rockabilly, Western swing etc.
Sun 18: Jason Isaacs @ STACK, Seaburn. 12 noon-2:00pm. Free. Vocalist Isaacs working with backing tapes.
Sun 18: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 18: Ruth Lambert & Giles Strong @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 18: Steve Summers Quintet @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 19: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 19: Lewis Watson Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £10.00.
Reviewers wanted
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Press release: Big Sounds and Big Names for Buxton International Festival’s Jazz Programme
Public Booking is open. The popular opening ‘Jazz Weekender’ ticket (10-13 July) features 12 gigs for just £175 or tickets can be bought separately. Tel: 01298 72190/buxtonfestival.co.uk
Festival Website/Programme is here.
Gregory Porter + Jo Harrop @ o2 Newcastle City Hall - May 12
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Album review: Ellie Martin - Morning Glories (self-produced)
Ellie Martin (voice, vocal backgrounds); Peter Eldridge (piano,
vocal backgrounds); Kurt Krahnke (bass); Olman Piedra (drums, percussion);
Andrew Bishop (tenor/soprano saxophones) (1,4,5,11,12); Ben Wolkins (trumpet)
(5); Kevin Ganz (guitar); Rob Avsharian (drums) (10,13).
It
is a certainty that vocalist, composer, educator Ellie Martin knew that titling
her recent release, Morning Glories would offer more profound and
resonant meanings beyond the horticultural. Martin’s poetic lyric content and
musically robust originals here – a hefty thirteen of them all performed
splendidly – give it away.
Love and Light spins things off in a brisk bossa nova take wherein Martin confidently delivers her poignant, optimistic lyrics. A long, lyrical tenor sax solo from Andrew Bishop follows. Vocal overdubs and Martin’s scatting take things out. It is a superb opener.
4B @ Whitley Bay's Ticket Office - May 11
Bernie Ranson (tenor sax); Barbara Wilcox (keyboards, vocals); Jude Murphy (double bass, vocals); Alan Wann (drums)
Sunday night @ the Globe: Sekoya - May 11
In the absence of BSH's regular reviewing team and as Sekoya's music is so lyrical, dynamic and exciting, I felt it would be unfair to both the band and the small audience who made the effort to allow this enjoyable gig to pass unnoticed.
The pieces, all composed by the band members, were drawn from their debut album Shuna (CD and vinyl) which they recorded in Memphis.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Album review: Sandra-Mae Lux - Seasons in Jazz (Sandra-Mae Music/ECN)
Young Man With a Horn - Remembering the book and the film
Paul Edis & Friends @ Musicwonders, Chester-le-Street - May 10
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm).
https://www.ayclifferadio.co.
Playlist 11/05/25 (repeated Tuesday 13/05/25)
VE Day: Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, the Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots.
Requests from the Hot Fingers gig at Darlington New Orleans Jazz Club: Hot Fingers, Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Sauter - Finegan Orchestra, Jack Teagarden, Ottilie Patterson, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald.
Other Requests: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, the Savoy Havana Band, Duke Pearson Big Band.
New Release: Louis Stewart.
Memories: King Oliver & His Orchestra, Mary Lou Williams.
What’s happening in the NE: Jo Harrop, Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord.
Scarborough Festival: Fergus McCreadie Trio.
Aycliffe Radio is now available on DAB in County Durham & the Darlington Area.
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