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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Rendezvous Jazz @ The Piper, Cullercoats. October 2nd

Maureen Hall (vocals), Iain MacAulay (trombone, trumpet & vocals), Brian Chester (trombone), Mac Smith (keyboards), John Robinson (double bass) & Jim McKeown (drums) + Doris Fenn (banjolele), Teresa Armstrong (vocals), Roy Gibson (keyboards) & John (vocals)
First Saturday in the month can mean only one thing - a rendezvous with Maureen Hall and the Boys down at the coast.
Maureen was a bit concerned that the band would be without both clarinet and trumpet (Barry Soulsby was indisposed and Alan Smith has gone into retirement). Well, she need not have worried. Announcing that a late dep meant a two trombone frontline, I for one, was delighted. All the more delighted when in walked Brian Chester hot foot from the West Jesmond Rhythm Kings' afternoon gig way down south in Darlington.
Chester and MacAulay, two of the north east's finest trombone players, have contrasting styles and this was a great opportunity to hear them at length over the course of the evening.
Rosetta, taken as an instrumental, got things under way. In my head I could hear Hall (and Jimmy Rushing) singing the lyric. I did then hear Maureen herself as she sang Somebody Loves Me and Iain MacAulay sang CC Rider.
Tunes were drawn from the Deep South, as one would expect, yet the set list also drew on the GAS Book. Rodgers and Hart's Blue Moon and Gershwin's Summertime were expertly handled by Hall. MacAulay can play trumpet when called upon and his vocal rendition of another Gershwin classic - Lady Be Good - was just about as GG intended!
The Gas Book was delved into again for Teresa Armstrong's interval spot. Accompanied by pianist Roy Gibson and Jim McKeown she wowed the audience, as always, with Cole Porter's C'est Magnifique the highlight.
The great Doris Fenn sat in on the second set and if you can comp on the banjolele then she comped damn good! The tunes came thick and fast - Sweet Georgia Brown, You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Hall belting it out!), an instrumental Autumn Leaves (at a slightly faster tempo than usual) with MacAulay singing and contributing effective trumpet and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.
Spirituals are seldom heard. I love them. Maureen Hall excels on such material. She sang Take My Hand, Precious Lord.
Great stuff.
A most enjoyable gig with trombonists Big Jim Robinson and Kid Ory...sorry, I mean, Brian Chester and Iain MacAulay, for once almost stealing the show from bandleader Hall with an excellent two-'bone version of Shine.
The Piper next calls the Rendezvous Jazz tune on Saturday 6th November (8:30 pm). If you can't wait that long then catch the band's weekly (Friday) lunchtime session down at the Porthole (next to North Shield's Ferry landing).
Russell.

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