tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28907081548800542562024-03-19T08:47:53.705+00:00bebop spoken hereFor the past sixteen years we've been updating the world about jazz in the north east of England and updating the north east of England about jazz in the world.
WINNER of the Jazz Media Category in the 2018 All Party Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Contact lanceliddle@gmail.comLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.comBlogger16273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-71166616245660998372024-03-18T20:05:00.004+00:002024-03-18T20:06:50.806+00:00Freddie Garner Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - March 17(© Jeff Pritchard)Freddie Garner (keys); Jim Collins (alto/tenor sax/flute); James Adolpho (bass); Phil Bennett (drums).The Sunday night audience was a bit noisier than usual due to a few revellers celebrating St Patrick's day but it did not seem to bother Freddie who just keeps the bebop flame burning with his hard driving brand of modern jazz. There were lots of interesting numbers played Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-83663512452518630062024-03-18T19:38:00.001+00:002024-03-18T19:38:54.579+00:00The Saltburn Big Band @ Dorman’s Jazz Club, Middlesbrough - March 14Dave Brock, Dan Chirniside, Tony Turne, Django
Zazou (trombones); Kevin Eland, Adrian Beadnell, Colin Moore, Karen Jones
(trumpets); Mark Toomey, Ellice Jones, Donna Hewitt, Andy Devine, Simon
Jones (saxes); Paul Donnelly (guitar); Dave Archbold (keys); John Daniels
(bass); Chris Murphy (drums); Darren Moore (congas); Bridget Metcalfe (vocals).The 19 piece band, formed less than a Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-35368664404043343172024-03-18T18:50:00.002+00:002024-03-18T18:53:00.312+00:00Once a Fig @ the Green Note, Camden Town, London - March 12Seeing a new band always has that sense of
anticipation to it because you're never quite sure what it will be like. That's
one of the reasons I go to Folkandroots shows because, in Graham Smallwood, you know you can trust the
promoter's judgement. If he says they'll be good, they'll be good. Last night
the cosy confines of the Green Note basement showed just why that faith is
justified.Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-40284014398477125542024-03-18T11:52:00.006+00:002024-03-18T17:45:34.964+00:00Sunday night @ the Globe: Luis Verde Trio - March 17(© Ken Drew)Luis Verde (alto sax); John Pope (bass); Abbie Finn (drums)Over the years I've been in the presence of greatness. Sometimes by musicians reliving past glories as well as others who were on the cusp of it.Most of these greats were American, some British, but, apart from that wonderful pianist, the late Tete Montoliu who I heard at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival back in the early Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-72371479020347033982024-03-17T13:10:00.004+00:002024-03-17T13:40:35.833+00:00Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm). https://www.ayclifferadio.co.uk/listenAycliffe Radio is now available on DAB in County Durham & the Darlington area.Playlist 17/03/24 (repeated Tuesday 19/03/24)St. Patrick’s Day: Ben Webster, Paul Joseph & Edgar Mills.Requests: Cab Calloway, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Chick Corea, Frog & Henry, Sonny Rollins.St. Patrick Continued: Noel Kelehan Quintet, Louis StewartLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-63213616137829460992024-03-17T12:08:00.007+00:002024-03-17T12:09:18.060+00:00 At the Globe, tonite...Luis Verde! A year or more ago at a Black Swan jam session the place was busy, the bar doing good business, a low level hubbub filtering cross the room. MC Paul Grainger invited a newcomer to sit in with the house trio. Step forward an alto saxophonist. Within a couple of bars a hush descended upon Westgate Road as we heard the most amazing bop/post bop/modern jazz alto sax. Wow! Who's this? Long story Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-15488176991205215142024-03-16T17:21:00.001+00:002024-03-16T17:21:32.283+00:00Swing Manouche @ the Old Black Cat Jazz Club, Sunderland - March 15Steve McGarvie (clarinet); Mick Shoulder (guitar); Dave Smith (rhythm guitar); Paul Grainger (string bass)1719 is a renovated Georgian church in Hendon (Old Sunderland), '1719' refers to the date the building opened. In the late 20th century the place closed, in danger of falling into disrepair. Fast forward to 2024, thanks to significant investment the place is now a flourishing community eventsLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-17575840785089946962024-03-15T21:35:00.001+00:002024-03-15T21:35:27.831+00:00Album review: Jane Scheckter - I'll Take RomanceJane Scheckter (vocals); Ted Firth (piano); Jay Leonhart (bass); Peter Grant (drums) + Warren Vaché (trumpet/flugel on 5 tks); Nicolas King (vocal on tk 11)Yet another outstanding NYC vocalist. They must be standing ten abreast the length of Broadway hoping for a review by BSH that will enable them to be doing the same on Frith St. only to find that the pavements of Soho are already full!However,Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-79021996384781674442024-03-15T17:52:00.002+00:002024-03-16T17:07:33.500+00:00Jazz @ The Lit and Phil: The Mark Williams Trio - March 15(© Pam)Mark Williams (guitar); Paul Susans (bass guitar); Rob Walker (drums).The Mark Williams Trio have released two albums: Balaclava Street and Last Bus to Bensham. Today was a chance for them to preview material, all written by Mark Williams, which will be on a third album to be recorded later this year. On today’s listening, what an album it is going to be!There was only time forLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-73459077290304956612024-03-15T11:55:00.003+00:002024-03-15T13:06:51.158+00:001950s jazz in north west LancashireAs teenagers, back in the 1950s, we moved seamlessly
from the rock and roll era to jazz. That’s
modern jazz by the way, not the raucous trad jazz, as in When the Saints go
Marching in.
In north west Lancashire we were truly fortunate to
have talented jazz singers and musicians playing on our doorsteps at the
Empress and Imperial Ballrooms in Burnley and Nelson, every week.
Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-28152280974088061622024-03-15T11:14:00.007+00:002024-03-15T11:16:54.577+00:00Spicy Li'l Devils @ Prohibition Bar - March 14Ali Affleck (vocals); Lorenzo Cortés (guitar); Mathieu Meyer (piano, vocals)The Spicy Li'l Devils have been touring No Regrets, a first album by Ali Affleck's new band. This evening at Prohibition Bar it was the trio and for a time it looked like it would be a duo. Ali dropped off the boys - Lorenzo Cortés and Mathieu Meyer - at the door and drove off in search of a parking space. Fast Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-44339295466233101342024-03-14T21:21:00.006+00:002024-03-15T11:03:13.723+00:00Album Review: Jonny Mansfield Quartet! Live at Pizza Express (Resonant Postcards)Jonny Mansfield
(vibraphone); Will Barry (piano); Will Sach (bass); Luke McCarthy (drums).
Jonny Mansfield’s 2023
album, The Air In Front Of You was an
enigmatic foray onto the edges of classical and jazz music; a third stream that
could have been labelled dinner jazz. I expected more of the same from this
album but, having replaced the violin and cello voices that featured on the
studio album Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-26495945542681641682024-03-14T20:25:00.002+00:002024-03-15T10:59:34.315+00:00Sue Ferris Quintet @ King's Hall, Newcastle University - March 14Sue Ferris (tenor sax/flute): Graham Hardy (trumpet/flugel); Ben Lawrence (piano); Andy Champion (bass); John Bradford (drums)Four of the north east's big hitters and an expat from Cumbria in the form of Ben Lawrence, who's also making waves, made this a win win gig.How could it not be? All five are at the top of their game blowing like the King's Hall was Birdland back in the day and, back in Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-10454434535493485512024-03-14T10:12:00.001+00:002024-03-14T10:12:32.963+00:00Sue Ferris - King's Hall & an album!Saxophonist/flautist Sue Ferris takes her quintet to King's Hall today. It's a 1:15pm start in Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. It's free admission. And, what's more, at long last Sue has an album in the pipeline! RussellLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-25975519777653054052024-03-13T12:11:00.004+00:002024-03-13T12:11:56.676+00:00Mark Williams Trio THIS FRIDAY (March 15)There seems to be some confusion over this Friday's sold out lunchtime concert by the Mark Williams Trio at the Lit and Phil. It was, originally scheduled for March 22 but, as announced by organiser Russell at previous gigs, the concert was rescheduled for this Friday (March 15) so please spread the word otherwise some ticket holders could turn up a week too late. LanceLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-25236583523024154532024-03-13T11:58:00.003+00:002024-03-13T15:10:02.168+00:00Lewis Watson Quartet @ Newcastle House, Rothbury - March 12Lewis
Watson (tenor sax); Mark Williams (guitar); Andy Champion (bass); John Bradford
(drums)
Normally, when I’m off
out to listen to some jazz, I set my compass for the south east and head to the
bright lights of the greater Tyne & Wear metropolis. Not so on this cool
(in so many ways) evening when a quick 180 degree re-calibration found me heading
for the ancient town of Rothbury for the Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-14812388222128315752024-03-12T20:11:00.003+00:002024-03-12T20:29:56.486+00:00Book review: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Summer we Crossed Europe in the RainA book of lyrics by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro to accompany the songs composed by Stacey Kent's husband Jim Tomlinson and featured on her latest album, that of the above name.The author raises the question as to how effective is a lyric without the music? Without that seductive melody and sympathetic harmony, do the words on their own tell a story?Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-2048518130673083122024-03-11T18:58:00.009+00:002024-03-11T18:59:19.271+00:00Matthew Forster Quartet @ Yamaha Music School, Blyth - March 11Matthew Forster (tenor sax); Ben Lawrence (piano); John Pope (double bass); Adam Stapleford (drums)A Matthew Forster Quartet gig is
what could be described as 'occasional'. A debut performance at the 2023
Newcastle Jazz Festival, a sold out January Lit & Phil lunchtime concert
and today, a lunchtime concert at the thriving Yamaha Music School in
Blyth. Forty five minutes, five numbers, Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-10763952963890290792024-03-11T18:44:00.003+00:002024-03-11T19:02:01.606+00:00Munch Manship Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - March 10(© Jeff Pritchard)Munch Manship (tenor sax/flute); Richard Wetherall (keyboards); Dave Lynane (bass); Brian Costello (drums) + Steve Childs (tenor sax).Every time Munch plays this venue, if you want to get a good seat you'd better arrive early because he always attracts a sizeable crowd of followers young and old. What is the reason for his popularity I ask myself? It could be the fact that he isLancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-27112388961000737852024-03-11T12:25:00.003+00:002024-03-11T12:55:45.907+00:00Preview: James Birkett & Bradley Johnston (Blaydon Jazz Club - Mon. 18 March)This time next week (Monday 18 March) guitar virtuosi James Birkett and Bradley Johnston will be heading to the Black Bull to help launch the 40th anniversary year of Blaydon Jazz Club! Tyneside's longest running jazz club has an amazing series of concerts in the pipeline and there's no better way to start the year than with a concert by two of Blaydon Jazz Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-23230455162730213602024-03-10T21:39:00.002+00:002024-03-10T22:41:23.599+00:00Album review: Julie Kelly - Freedom Jazz DanceJulie Kelly (vocals); Josh Nelson (piano); Larry Koonse (guitar); Luca Alemanno (bass); Dan Schnelle (drums); Aaron Serfaty (perc.); Danny Janklow (sax/flute) + Andrew Synowiec (guitar tk 7).The ninth album by Californian singer Kelly is, if that is possible, even better than album number eight HAPPY TO BE - which I reviewed back in 2014. No that's wrong. With a singer like Kelly there's no such Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-7925045320057443692024-03-10T11:25:00.003+00:002024-03-10T11:25:35.978+00:00 Jazz Time Aycliffe Radio - Sundays 6.30-8.00pm (repeated Tuesdays 8.00-9.30pm) https://www.ayclifferadio.co.uk/listen/Aycliffe Radio is now available on DAB in County Durham & the Darlington area.Playlist 10/03/24 (repeated
Tuesday 12/03/24)
Mother's Day: Clarence
Williams & His Orchestra, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn.Darlington New Orleans Club Requests: Frog
& Henry, Sister Lottie Peavy/Bunk Johnson, Bennie Moten's Kansas City
Orchestra, Freddie Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-18132127597924831872024-03-09T20:35:00.000+00:002024-03-09T20:35:54.495+00:00Peyton Womock Band - Live at the CenterNot BSH's normal bill of fare but it is interesting. It reminds me of, back in the day, when Don Ellis was pushing unusual time signatures, Cage-like silences and, as part of his 'happenings', pouring salt into the piano. Womock doesn't go to these extremes but he does put on a show. I don't think it will knock PMJ off the top spot but there are moments and the finale is something else. I will Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-13867616937845752202024-03-09T11:01:00.002+00:002024-03-09T11:01:49.983+00:00Preview: The NCRO @ GCT (Sat. 23 March)The NCRO? That's the New Century Ragtime Orchestra. GCT? That's Gosforth Civic Theatre. Two weeks today (Saturday 23rd March) Tyneside's unique New Century Ragtime Orchestra will be joined by virtuoso pianist Martin Litton for an evening of ragtime compositions, hot dance numbers and early swing charts. As always, the inimitable Steve Andrews will be your MC and Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-33164492746175007202024-03-08T19:34:00.002+00:002024-03-08T20:13:57.792+00:00Preview: Paul Skerritt @ the Glasshouse on April 26Today's Shields Gazette features an article on north east jazz and swing singer Paul Skerritt drawing attention to his forthcoming concert at the Glasshouse, Gateshead on April 26.Backing Paul will be the fourteen piece Danny Miller Big Band. The band, mainly from the north west (although usually with a couple of top notch local ringers), has backed Paul on several occasions, including a couple Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com0