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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

Fri 29: FILM: Soul @ The Forum Cinema, Hexham. 12:30pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Fri 29: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 29: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 29: Abbie Finn Trio @ The Vault, Darlington. 6:00pm. Free. POSTPONED!
Fri 29: Thundercat @ Newcastle City Hall.
Fri 29: John Logan @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Fri 29: True Colours @ Barrels Ale House, Berwick. 9:00pm. Blues, jazz & swing.

Sat 30: Papa G’s Troves @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Sat 30: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Whitley Bay Library, York Road, Whitley Bay. 8:00pm.

Sun 31: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 31: Ruth Lambert Trio @ Juke Shed, Union Quay, North Shields NE30 1HJ. 3:00pm. Free. Lambert, Alan Law & Paul Grainger.
Sun 31: Sid Jacobs & Tom Remon @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. USA/London jazz guitar duo.
Sun 31: Bellavana @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

April
Mon 01: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 01: Ray Stubbs R&B All Stars @ Billy Bootlegger’s, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 3:00pm. Free.

Tue 02: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Dean Stockdale, Paul Grainger, Abbie Finn.

Wed 03: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 03: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 03: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 04: FILM: Soul @ Forum Cinema, Hexham. 2:00pm. Jazz-themed film animation.
Thu 04: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 04: Funky Drummer @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.
Thu 04: Eva Fox & the Jazz Guys @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. Free. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 04: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Svarc Hanley Longhawn @ The Jazz Café. March 11

Nik Svarc (guitar), Martin Longhawn (organ) & Steve Hanley (drums)
(Review by Russell/Photo courtesy of Mike Tilley.)
The Leeds jazz scene just keeps on giving. Tonight’s guests made the short road trip to Tyneside for the first time since their appearance at last year’s Gateshead Jazz Festival. Guitarist Nik Svarc had made a more recent visit to the Jazz Café working with another combo but this guitar-organ-drums trio is a regular working unit with recorded material documenting their sound.
Nik Svarc, Martin Longhawn (Nord C1) and drummer Steve Hanley aren’t for the hard sell; play a couple of tunes, say a few words, albeit reluctantly, then play another two or three tunes. They opened with a lowdown Stratocaster groove, slowly decaying, turning into a swing time section before Svarc took it out on a groove via a looping pedal board.
Deceptively effortless, the trio’s sense of time is masterful. Svarc’s pedal board enables him to produce myriad looping sounds but it is his guitar playing that truly dazzles. The organ-drums combination – Longhawn’s swirling, smokin’ riffs, Hanley’s mesmerising drum patterns – dovetails seamlessly with Svarc’s imperious solo flights.
Military medium Hanley, a stalking Longhawn (the Hammond pedals sound), Nik Svarc set about concealing All Blues in loop upon loop, lost in time and space. A Svarc number had Scofield written all over it, a Hanley tune, with seemingly little going on, developed incrementally, the trio immersed in the complexity of it all.
Second set, a Tyneside vocalist, just out of a session, dropped by as Svarc hit Piety Street Scofield. Our vocalist exclaimed: Dead groovy! Dead right! The Jazz Café’s Friday night audience listened (it can be done) as the trio launched into what was to be the tune of the night. Bop, in-the-pocket swing, smokin’ Hammond, smokin’ Svarc, the trio took Seven Steps to Heaven.       
Russell.        

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