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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

Thu 28: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 28: Gateshead Jazz Appreciation Society @ Gateshead Central Library, Gateshead. 2:30pm.
Thu 28: Richard Herdman Quartet @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.
Thu 28: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm. Guests: Josh Bentham (alto sax); Alan Marshall (tenor sax); Neil Brodie (trumpet); Adrian Beadnell (bass); Graham Thompson (keys); Steve Hunter (drums).

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.

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.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

A full house at the Quakerhouse

(Review by Eales/Russell)
Alto saxophonist Ray Dales played to a full house at Darlington Jazz Club on Sunday evening. The upstairs room at the Camra award-winning Quakerhouse pub was full to capacity with the ante room as busy as the main performance space.
Bebop Spoken Here’s man covering the Darlington beat, Tony Eales, reports that Dales was on form from the off playing a set of standards in the company of  James Harrison, Anth Ord and Tom Chapman. For a while the early evening gig (it’s a six o’clock start) looked as though it could well be a Ray Dales’ solo saxophone performance as Harrison and the boys were nowhere to be seen! The Teesside-based pianist couldn’t find the pub and only just turned up in the nick of time. 

The trio is a regular working unit (Anth Ord, bass and Tom Chapman, drums) and, once set up, gave sterling support to the main man. Fans of Ray Dales can hear the man every Sunday lunchtime at the Park Inn, Hartlepool, sitting in the Musicians Unlimited reeds’ section, the roaring big band led by Mick Donnelly.
Tomorrow night though (Wednesday, October 12), the man in the pork pie hat can be heard at the Cherry Tree (9 Osborne Rd., Jesmond) this time with the Jeremy McMurray Trio. It has to be said that the man, deservedly, moves in the right company.
And the food at the Cherry Tree is great (Editor’s observation)
Next month (Sunday, November 13) should see another capacity audience in Mechanics’ Yard with the return of the brilliant young drummer Abbie Finn. An alumnus of Durham County Youth Big Band, now studying at Leeds College of Music, Finn is going to make it in the jazz world, no two ways about it, so get along to hear a fine talent working with her equally talented bandmates Joe Whettam, guitar, and Alistair Rhodes, bass.
Russell.         

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