Seven Jazz Update

For those living in the Leeds area Seven Jazz have an impressive program lined up starting with a Jam Session this Sunday January 5.
Full details here.
Thanks to Steve Crocker for the info.
Lance.

RIP Bobby Gordon

The clarinettist Bobby Gordon has sadly passed away. One of the later breed of musicians keeping classic jazz/swing alive his playing enlivened sessions by Becky Kilgore and others. Michael Steinman has posted an emotive obituary on his Jazz Lives site.
Bobby Gordon died on New Year's Eve.
Lance.

CD Review: Beautiful Love: Paulinho Garcia

Paulinho Garcia (acoustic guitar and vocals).

(Review by Ann Alex.)

I’d describe this as a romantic easy-listening CD rather than jazz, one for us ladies to play during a candle-lit evening spent with someone we love, and I’m not talking about your dad or your brother!

Fifteen tracks of mostly jazz standards accompanied by skilful but understated guitar, a few tracks sung in Portuguese and Spanish and also a self-penned song Do You Remember Me?  The whole performance is infused with a ‘latin’ feel, tango and bossa nova, from the opening song by Jobin  Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar right through to the last (folk) song,  Casinha Pequenina. 

Darlington Jazz Club @ The Forum Announce 2014 Dates (January/February)

Season Two

Doors 5.30pm Live Music from about 6.00pm.
All gigs at The Forum Music Centre, Borough Rd., Darlington DL1 1SG.

January 
5: No Club

     12:Youth night’ – Durham County Big Band & Little Big Band £3/1

 :   19: Jazz ‘Combo’: John Brett Quintet featuring Karen Lester vocals £4/2

 :   26: Jazz ‘Combo’: Budtones £4/2
      February

 :     2: Debra Milne Ensemble £4/2

       9: Jazz ‘Combo’: Saxophonics  £4/2

 :   16: Jazz ‘Combo’: Alan Law plays music for Valentine’s weekend £4/2

     23: ‘Big Band night’: Alan Owen’s Big Band £4/2.
     Thanks Shaune - Looks good. Lance.

Most Read Posts in December.

1.  Interview w. Brian Bennett 

2.  Salsa Jam Session Dec. 8 

3.  ALT @ Bridge Hotel  

4.  RIP Joe Errington 

5.  Zoe Gilby Album Launch (12 Stories) @ The Bridge 

6.  Marilyn Crispell & Raymond MacDonald @ Newcastle Uni. 

7.  Splinter Jam Session Dec. 15 

8.  Ruth Lambert @ Gala/Quiz 

9.  Sting: When the Last Ship Sails 

10 (jt).TJ Muller @ Hoochie Coochie 

10 (jt).Havana Club 5 @ Hoochie Coochie 

These are the ten most read posts of the ninety posted in December. Click on them to read again.

Lance.

CD Review: Pete Mills - Sweet Shadow

Pete Mills (ten); Pete McCann (gtr); Erik Augis (pno); Martin Wind (bs); Matt Wilson (dms).

Jazz is a never ending voyage of discovery. You become complacent, blasé the old ennui takes over - you've heard it all before and then - Flash! Bang! Alakazam! Pete Mills segues by! From Canada, Toronto of all places. Toronto I ask you? Then you think back and recall that one of the greatest jazz concerts ever took place at Massey Hall in that very city. Bird, Diz, Bud, Mingus, Roach back in 1953. An autograph collected by Mills' father at that concert is reproduced among the album notes and it becomes obvious that the son has jazz genes inherited from his papa.

CD/Gig of the Year Choices

Gig of the Year
Hugh Cochrane: .	The Impossible Gentlemen @ Zefferelli's, Ambleside
Ken Drew	Marian Crispell & Raymond McDonald @ N'cle Uni.
	Arun Ghosh @ Sage Gateshead
	Laura Jurd/Paul Dunmall (jt)
Tony Eales	Igor Butman - Moscow Jazz Orchestra @ Wigan Jazz Festival
	Bobby Shew & LA Big Band @ LA Jazz Festival
	Tommy Smith & SNJO Play Stan Kenton @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Chris Finch	Trilok Gurtu, Paolo Fresu, Omar Sosa @ Sage Gateshead
Flore	David Sanborn/Bob James @ Barbican (London Jazz Festival)
Steve Horowitz	Arun Ghosh @ Sage Gateshead
	Ollie Howell Quintet @ The Bridge, Newcastle
	Courtney Pine @ Hoochie Coochie
Kath Jobes	Lindsay Hannon Plus @ Sage Gateshead
Lance	Keith Crombie Funeral/Wake @ Town Walls, Newcastle
	Emma Fisk @ Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party
	Cecile McLorin Salvant & Daryl Sherman @ Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party
Liz	Michael Bublé @ O2
John Taylor	Martin Stephenson/Martin Taylor @ Ashington Festival
Roly Veitch	Graeme Wilson Quartet @ Lit and Phil

Gig/CD of the Year

Still time to send in your choices. Up to 3 choices per category.
Lance. 

R.I.P. Boyd Lee Dunlop

We'd all heard of Frankie Dunlop, drummer with Monk for many years, I recall seeing him with Lionel Hampton at Newcastle City Hall - a living legend. But what about his elder brother Boyd Lee Dunlop? I too shook my head. The name meant nothing. That is, until the announcement of his death on December 28 aged 87 when I investigated further..

Boyd gave Frankie his first drum lesson, worked as a labourer in a steelworks whilst playing piano in a club in Buffalo at night, and at 85 made his first CD after someone heard him play in the nursing home where he now lived. It was so successful they recorded him again the following year. How's that for being a late developer?

Rest In Peace.

Obituary.
Lance.

Redemption Gigs 2014

January

Sunday 19: Blaydon Jazz Club, The Black Bull - Bridge St, Blaydon-on-Tyne, NE21 4JJ. 0191 4142846 

8:00pm no cover charge 

Fund-Raising event donations to Marie Curie the night has been bequeathed to us by Blaydon Jazz Club.

Thursday 23: Label Newcastle, 14-16 Newgate St, Newcastle NE1 5RG. 8:00pm . Cover Charge TBC.

 0191 261 8701

Wednesday 29: Hexham Jazz Club, The Exchange Café, Beaumont St, Hexham, Northumberland NE46 3LS. 01434 608765 - 8:00pm £3 cover charge.

February

Thursday 13: The Victoria, 244 Whitley Rd, Whitley Bay NE26 2TE.  8:00pm cover charge TBC. 0191 251 3753.

April

Friday 4: No28, 28 Nelson St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5AN. 10:00pm no cover charge donations to the Pink Lane Jazz Coop.0191 232 2005.

http://www.redemptionjazz.com/