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Postage

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.

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Old Hat Jazz Band

(Review by Russell)
A few short years ago a young guitarist turned up at the Chillingham, Newcastle looking to sit in at Dave Weisser’s now legendary jazz workshop (See photo circa 2008 – Ed.). Quiet, perhaps shy, possibly a sixth form student, ‘James’ (the surname then unknown, guardedly unknown) got up and joined the house band. Trumpeter Weisser and long-time associate Barry Ascroft (piano) welcome all-comers and ‘James’ took his chance, reading the charts, taking a solo, a new face on the scene. Some time later James went to London, end of story. Not quite…
The shy young man from the Tyne Valley recently returned to the region as a member of the band Glasshopper to play a gig at the Bridge Hotel. Last week James Kitchman – yes, the same ‘James’ first heard at the Chillingham – played a gig at this year’s BBC Proms! Tuesday evening’s BBC Proms Extra Lates programme strand (BBC Radio 3, 10:00pm) was recorded on 28th July in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall featuring jazz and poetry. 
The Old Hat Jazz Band – young musicians playing ‘old hat’ jazz – includes in its ranks one James Kitchman. The band, a quintet, played all-original material inspired by a love of 1920s jazz. Their set was interspersed with readings by Kim Moore from her new collection of poetry. Until recently Moore supported her writing by working in schools as a peripatetic brass instrument teacher.
The programme of three-quarters of an hour duration was a delight from start to finish. It is available on BBC iPlayer for the next three weeks or so. Highly recommended.
Note to the aspiring musician: sitting-in at Dave Weisser’s Take it to the Bridge session – weekly, Wednesdays, now at Jazz Co-op HQ, the Globe, Railway Street, Newcastle – is a good career move!
Russell
Old Hat Jazz Band: Elizabeth Excell (drums), Mike Soper (trumpet), William Scott (clarinet), James Kitchman (guitar) & Louis Thomas (bass)

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