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Josh Weir: I love the writing on bebop spoken here... I think the work you are doing is amazing.

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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.

Thursday, November 05, 2015

Dave Milligan Trio @ Brunswick Methodist Church – November 5

Dave Milligan (piano), Tom Lyne (double bass) & Tom Bancroft (drums)
(Review by Russell)
Jazz goes to choich! In a side street off the main drag, culture vultures ventured over to the dark side determined to resist any mumbo jumbo from the wacko deluded oddballs. Brunswick, a melting pot of the comfortable and complacent, the lonely and lost, some killing time, escaping, temporarily, from their main drag dead end job. They have come in from the cold, studiously ignoring the Big Issue vendors, side-stepping the homeless.
Inside, the chapel welcomed the jazz brethren, or rather, the Friends of King’s Hall bods and the dragooned students (out of bed in the nick of time). The Dave Milligan Trio had something of a surprise awaiting them – Newcastle University’s music department went to the trouble of transporting a grand piano to the city centre venue! Milligan’s principal discipline is jazz although he does work cross genre, as do his bass player and drummer. Tom Lyne, Canadian born, but a long time resident north of the border, possesses a real jazz sound; full, resonant, with a great sense of time. The other Tom, Tom Bancroft, has an equally impressive jazz cv together with his interests in the folk world.
The majority of the compositions played in this one hour recital were written by Milligan.  Brubeckian, European classical, percussive dance grooves, the tunes wittily titled – Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There and Going Nowhere to name but two – were well received, although the audience sat on its hands, choosing/failing to acknowledge solos from Lyne and Bancroft, the trio winning polite applause at their conclusion.
Milligan’s playing of a high order, dense, percussive excursions drew in the listener with bass and drums negotiating the charts in an unobtrusive manner. An atypical piece to end the lunchtime recital – a South African township composition – belatedly stirred audience and musicians alike.
Russell

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