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May
Fri 17: Dave Newton & Dean Stockdale @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle. 1:00pm. SOLD OUT!
Fri 17: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 17: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 17: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Fri 17: Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Fire Station, Sunderland. 7:30pm. Album launch gig featuring Alan Barnes, Bruce Adams & Paul Booth!
Fri 17: Hot Club du Nord @ Seventeen Nineteen, Hendon, Sunderland. 7:30pm.
Sat 18: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:00-9:00pm. Free. Celebrating ‘10 years of the Jazz Jam!’. House trio: Alan Law, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston. A Late Shows event.
Sat 18: SH#RP Collective @ Holy Name Parish Church Hall, Jesmond, Newcastle. 7:00-9:00pm. Tickets: £15.00. Bar available, BYO snacks. A Jesmond Community Festival event. All proceeds to Kabuyanda Charity (Ugandan health care).
Sat 18: Red Kites Jazz @ Staithes Café, Autumn Drive, Gateshead. 7:30pm.
Sat 18: Alligator Gumbo @ The Witham, Barnard Castle. 7:30pm.
Sat 18: Rockin’ Turner Brothers @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 18: Papa G’s Amigos special summer Latin set @ The Schooner, Gateshead NE8 3AF. 9:00pm. Free.
Sat 18: Late Night Special with Ruth Lambert & special guests @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 10:00pm-midnight. £5.00. (booking essential). Lambert & surprise jam session guests from down the years.
Sun 19: BTS Trombone Day @ Mark Hillery Arts Centre, Collingwood College, Durham University DH1 3LT. 11:00am-5:00pm. Free to British Trombone Society members (£10.00. & £5.00. to non-members). Recitals, workshops and mass blows.
Sun 19: Women Play Jazz! workshop @ The Globe, Newcastle. 1:30pm. £25.00. Tutor: Andrea Vicari. Enquiries: learning@jazz.coop.
Sun 19: Ransom Van @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sun 19: Tweed River Jazz Band @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 7:00pm. Free.
Sun 19: Andrea Vicari Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.
Mon 20: Harmony Brass @ the Crescent Club, Cullercoats. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 20: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:00-8:00pm. Free. Opus de Funk: Horace Silver.
Mon 20: Joe Steels-Ben Lawrence Quartet @ The Black Bull, Blaydon. 8:00pm. £8.00.
Tue 21: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Alan Law, Paul Grainger, John Bradford.
Wed 22: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 22: Alice Grace Vocal Masterclass @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:00pm. Free.
Wed 22: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 22: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Wed 22: Daniel Erdmann’s Thérapie de Couple @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 8:00pm.
Thu 23: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 23: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 23: Castillo Nuevo Trio @ Revoluçion de Cuba, Newcastle. 5:30pm. Free.
Thu 23: Immortal Onion + Rivkala @ Cobalt Studios, Newcastle. 7:00pm.
Thu 23: The Doris Day Story @ Phoenix Theatre, Blyth. 7:30pm.
Thu 23: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Jeremy McMurray (keys); Dan Johnson (tenor sax); Donna Hewitt (alto sax); Bill Watson (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass).
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Preview (updated): The Strictly Smokin' Big Band & Friends - Sunderland Fire Station (Fri. 17 May)
Late Night Chicago Radio w. Denny Farrell (May 16 to May 22)
Kenny Barron: The Very Thought of You.
John Coltrane: I'm Old Fashioned.
Diana Krall: Where or When?
Scott Hamilton: Skylark.
Oscar Peterson: Night Train.
Dianne Reeves: Oh What a Little Moonlight Can Do.
André Previn: Thank Heaven For Little Girls.
Sarah Vaughan: After Hours.
Kenny Burrell/Jimmy Smith: Since I Fell For You.
Paul Desmond/Jim Hall: Imagination.
Press release/preview: Jam - a photographic exhibition
© Kate O'Neill |
For around 2 years, I have documented instrumentalists and vocalists as they sit in and perform at the Jam.
The Preview (Saturday 10th August: 6:00 - 8:00 pm) is my opportunity to invite and involve the players and audience. My plan on the night is to recreate a ‘micro’ - jam session by hiring a rhythm section and inviting regular jam participants to sit in and perform surrounded by images of themselves.
I'm also taking this opportunity to invite a wider audience to the Preview and feature some of the images from my up and coming show. Kate O'Neill
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Album review: The New Wonders - Steppin' Out
Paul Hartley Quartet featuring Jim Collins @ the Railway Stockport - May 14
© Jeff Pritchard |
Making a rare appearance at this venue was drummer Miles Pillinger whose high-energy playing fitted in well with the tunes selected particularly the opening number Hank Mobley’s This I Dig of You which had Jim Collins on tenor sax and blowing up a storm.
This was the second time that I’ve heard this tune of late, the first being at Mezzrow during their Monday night podcast featuring pianist Alan Broadbent who played a more relaxed version. The second tune tonight was also written by a tenor saxman the great Joe Henderson who I believe composed Recorda-Me when he was 14 years old.
Album Review: Cyrille Aimée – à Fleur de Peau
Ms Aimée lives in New Orleans. When the pandemic began she moved to Costa Rica where she built a house and with new found confidence, wrote the songs and recorded the album which was based around Ms Aimée's performances with added arrangements. The album is good of its type but not really to my taste, and it just does not have a jazz-like 'feel'. It's closer to pop music and soul.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Dee Dee Bridgewater & We Exist, @ Cheltenham Town Hall - May 4
Dee
Dee Bridgewater announced, shortly after arriving on the stage, that she was
going to be doing songs about social concerns because she was angry. It soon
became apparent that she was, in fact, VERY ANGRY INDEED. She proceeded to tear
the roof off displaying levels of energy unseen since the early days of the
Clash. Apparently, she is 73 years old but comported herself with the vigour of
someone who still gets asked their age in pubs.
She opened with a Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway song, Trying Times, which came from that sweet spot where the blues meets soul. Over rock solid drumming and a funky piano excursion Dee Dee’s voice built to a crescendo on the song’s title as she wails out ‘Tryin’ Tiiiimes.’ She swoops and growls, yet her enunciation is clear and each word is served up clearly for examination. A bubbling bass solo leads into a bass and voice call and respond as her gentle scatting leads to a fade.
David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024)
© Flore |
Nov. 15, 2011: Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London. With Joey DeFrancesco on Hammond and Byron Landham on drums this was a mind-blowing set that stood head and shoulders above anything else at that year's London Jazz Festival. REVIEW.
Monday, May 13, 2024
Liam Byrne Quartet @ the Railway, Stockport - May 12
Liam Byrne (tenor/soprano sax); Andy Hulme (guitar); Tom Kincaid (piano); Ed Harrison (bass)
Although this was a drummer-less line up, it didn’t matter as all four musicians are well experienced at playing this sort of gig. When Ed Harrison is on board you know things will swing! I think it’s been quite a while since Tom Kincaid has played at this venue and he decided to use the house upright tonight rather than a keyboard which was a good move as, to me, tenor sax always sounds best when an acoustic piano is used.
The Fergus McCreadie Trio @ the Glasshouse - May 12
In my early childhood my parents would take (drag?) me along to concerts by, amongst others, the Hallé Orchestra at the City Hall in Newcastle. To my mother the Hallé were the equivalent of the Beatles and Sir John Barbirolli her 'Elvis'. I was perhaps less enamoured although I did eventually come to appreciate the changes of mood and tempo during the movements of the various symphonies that I learned to love (and sometimes hate!)
The thunderous crescendos, the pastoral calm that followed, the intricacies of the strings sawing away against the stentorian bombast of the brass, the woodwind caught in the crossfire and all underpinned by the clashing of the cymbals and the boiling kettle drums triumphantly telling us that victory was nigh.
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