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Clare Teal: "If you're brought up in a working-class family, you haven't got money for records so everything you get hold of, you treasure, learn to love, and I loved those Ella tapes." - (Radio Times 23-29 January 2021)

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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Preview: Scotland's Makar on Bessie Smith (Jan. 30)
Jazzing around from Middlesbrough to Jesmond via Montreal by Peter Wardle
I don't recall going to any live music events other than brass band concerts playing in Albert Park. My introduction to jazz music was some 60 years ago watching the film Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Stand out performances I still remember were from Anita O'Day and Jimmy Giuffre on tenor with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer. I have been a jazz fan ever since!
New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2) with Paul Edis - Jan. 26
We've been here before. During 2020 Paul Edis' Ballads Before Bed became required late night listening. Now, in the early weeks of the new year, our London resident pianist has resurfaced with a fortnightly (Tuesday) series focussing upon new, original material, some rarely performed pieces from an ever-expanding songbook.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
KSTV: Adrian Cox Quartet live stream - Jan. 26
Album review: Cowboys and Frenchmen - Our Highway
New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2)
Monday, January 25, 2021
Antonio Forcione live stream from Ronnie Scott's - Jan. 25
Album review: John Pope Quintet - Mixed With Glass
Having seen this band a number of times live and being a big fan it was with some excitement and trepidation when I placed their inaugural CD Mixed with Glass into the player. I needn’t have worried within just a few bars I knew this album was a winner and that it was going to deliver the musical experience I had hoped for.
The CD was recorded over a weekend in October on the New Jazz and Improvised Recordings label partially set up to compensate for the cancellation of the 2020 Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music.
Album review: The QOW Trio
Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor sax); Eddie Myer (bass); Spike Wells (drums).
The QOW Trio assembled, originally, to explore their love of Sonny Rollins’ piano-less trios of the 1950s but expanded their interest to encompass other big voiced tenorists with a full phat sound. The best sax trios have a rhythm section that pushes and prods the leader on and never allows the listener to wonder if there should be another horn or a pianist in the band. You need a monster bassist and a propulsive drummer, just like the QOW Trio. There is occasional space here, but the sax echoes into it and there is no sense of anything missing. This is music for the middle of a pandemic, recorded in one afternoon, where the band have shut out whatever lockdown we were in at the time and have convened to just blow. Cobwebs have no chance.
The Glenn Crytzer Quartet in the year 1931 - Jan. 24
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord live streaming from The Globe - Jan. 24
Jimmie Noone in "Block Busters"
Album review: A second review* of The Royal Bopsters - Party of Four
A master class of vocal jazz artistry, The Bopsters project vocalese in tight, intricate harmonies on a disc containing drama and multi-layered harmonies that draw much inspiration from classic vocal groups of yore. These include Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (The Bopsters' 2015 debut CD, included guest spots from both Ross and Hendricks), the Hi Los, and The Manhattan Transfer. POF exudes a deeply swinging amalgam of vocal virtuosity with precise but fully breathing arrangements that effectively combine the yin and yang of this discipline.
The Sunday Service celebrates Johnny Dodds - Jan. 23
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- Preview: Scotland's Makar on Bessie Smith (Jan. 30)
- Jazzing around from Middlesbrough to Jesmond via M...
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2) with Paul Ed...
- KSTV: Adrian Cox Quartet live stream - Jan. 26
- Album review: Cowboys and Frenchmen - Our Highway
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music (2)
- Antonio Forcione live stream from Ronnie Scott's -...
- Album review: John Pope Quintet - Mixed With Glass
- Album review: The QOW Trio
- The Glenn Crytzer Quartet in the year 1931 - Jan. 24
- Emma Fisk's Hot Club du Nord live streaming from T...
- Jimmie Noone in "Block Busters"
- Album review: A second review* of The Royal Bopste...
- The Sunday Service celebrates Johnny Dodds - Jan. 23
- Album reviews: Gemma Sherry - Let's Get Serious & ...
- KSTV: Live Playback. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messeng...
- Aycliffe Radio Playlist for tomorrow (Jan. 24 @ 6:...
- There'll be some (radio) changes made (starting Su...
- The Summertime of my discontent
- Album review: Tricotism - Nostalgia
- Deschanel Gordon live streaming from Kansas Smitty...
- Rico's Popup Louis with Nick Dawson - Jan. 22
- Jason Moran: James Reese Europe - The Harlem Hellf...
- Rachael & Alex playback Paul & Gerry. Two of a Min...
- Luca Manning live streaming from Ronnie's: a Tribu...
- Keith Nichols (1945-2021)
- Malcolm Griffiths (1941 - 2021)
- JASON MORAN – THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS - Free Stre...
- John Russell (1954 - 2021)
- Album review: Jeff Benedict Big Big Band - The Wea...
- Kansas Smitty's play Hoodoo Man Blues and more - J...
- Exam Board Reinstates Jazz on Curriculum
- Harmonica Stories
- Album review: Sam Newbould Quintet - Bogus Notus
- Preview: Junior Wells at Kansas Smitty's (Jan. 20)
- KSTV: Alec Harper Trio playback Sonny Rollins Tri...
- R.I.P. Alan Smith (trumpet)
- R.I.P. Junior Mance (1928 - 2021)
- Ivo Neame: Live stream from Ronnie Scott's - Jan. 18
- Album review: Will Glaser - Climbing in Circles
- Album review: Wayne Alpern w. The Dorian Wind Quin...
- R.I.P. Sammy Nestico
- Dean Stockdale Trio live streaming from The Globe ...
- A Sunday Service for Pete Fountain - Jan. 17
- Chris Ingham - Hoagy's Children: The Pianist-Singe...
- Prestigious Award for Maurice Summerfield
- Album review: Mike Scott - Collecting Things
- KSTV: NCW plays Bright Size Life - Jan. 16
- Meanwhile, Back at Carnegie Hall ...
- Sound of Cinema with Terence Blanchard - Jan. 16
- A Wake-up Call for Bop Van Winkle
- Album Review: Lorenz Grey – Liberty Hotel
- Film review: One Night in Miami
- Tonight's KSTV Livestream - Jan. 15
- Rico's Popup Louis - Jan. 15
- Alec Harper live streaming from Kansas Smitty's - ...
- Keith Crombie - Gone but not forgotten
- Lucia Cadotsch / Kit Downes / Ruth Goller Livestre...
- The London Supersax Project livestreaming from Ron...
- Preview: Tonite - Supersax!
- Daryl's going to jail!
- Album review: Binker and Moses - Escape the Flames
- Film preview: One Night in Miami
- New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings
- Playback session @ Kansas Smitty's. Will Barry Tri...
- Moses Boyd on Miles Davis' Nefertiti
- Album review: Zoöphyte - Out of the Cave
- New Year, New Lockdown, New Music.
- Jalen sings the Blues @ Kansas Smitty's - Jan. 12
- Book review: Peter Jones - This is Bop. Take 2
- News Flash! - Paul Edis Streams Again and it's Ton...
- Dean Stockdale Trio to live stream from The Globe ...
- Eddie Blair (1927 - Dec. 26, 2020)
- Tom Seminar-Ford live streaming from Ronnie's - Ja...
- RIP Howard Johnson
- An Etude from Greg Abate on Facebook - Jan. 11
- Album review: The 14 Jazz Orchestra - Cartoon Bebop
- St, Valentines Day @ The Globe w. The Peter Morgan...
- Album review: Henry Robinett Quartet - Jazz Standa...
- Glenn Crytzer Quartet live streaming from NYC for ...
- Dom Pipkin's Sunday Piano Truth - July 10
- The Music of 1929 with the Glenn Crytzer Quartet (...
- Album review: Andy Hague's Double Standards - Release
- Jazz at Vespers at Toulouse Lautrec with Adrian Co...
- Album review: Yoko Miwa Trio - Songs of Joy
- Marcus Bonfanti & Dave Archer live-streaming from ...
- Aycliffe calling, Aycliffe calling ...
- Drum tuition for free!
- Album review - Shapeshifters
- Tony Pitt (1940 - January 8, 2021)
- Adrian Cox Quartet live streaming from Kansas Smit...
- Swinging into 2021 with Rico Tomasso - Jan. 8
- Farewell to Ron Goodall
- Album review: Paul Taylor - Via
- Alec Harper & Will Barry live streaming People Ti...
- Could Birdland be singing its last lullaby?
- In Search of Benny Golson (via Sesame Street!).
- Blue Yodel Number Nine by Jimmie Rodgers
- Preview: The Art of Drumming (part 1, Friday 8)
- No Bossa Trio @ Globe on Sunday
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