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Bebop Spoken There
Eubie Blake: “He [Willie The Lion Smith] played some tricky rhythms, if he'd seen them written down, he'd have said "Oh I couldn't play that", but he played them!” – (DownBeat May 24, 1973).
Mel Lewis: “They [kids] think the word "technique" means speed. The word "technique" just means the way you do something, that's all.” – (DownBeat July 19. 1973).

Today Saturday April 21
Tees Valley Jazzmen - Hardwick Arms Hotel, 1 North End, Sedgefield TS21 2AZ. Tel: 01740 622305. 1:30pm. Free.
Evening
Ubunye - BURC, Main Street, Spittal TD15 1RD. Tel: 07752 403409. 7:30pm. £8.00. (£5.00. child, £22.00. family).
Groove-a-matics @ Magnesia Bank, Camden Street, North Shields NE30 1NH. 9:00pm. Free.
The Hookahs - Billy Bootleggers, 28 Nelson Street, Newcastle NE1 5AN. 8:30pm. Free.

Sunday, May 07, 2017
Snarky Puppy/House of Waters @ Sage Gateshead, May 3

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- CD Review: Tomoko Omura - Post Bop Gypsies
- CD Review: Tommy Smith Quartet - Embodying the Lig...
- CD Review: Talinka (Fanfare FJ1701)
- NCRO Tickets now on sale
- CD Review: Matt Chandler - Astrometrics.
- Jazz Night @ Jesmond Library - May 27
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ Ushaw - May 26
- Paul Wilkinson @ St Nicholas Cathedral - May 26
- Strictly Smokin’ Big Band @ The Millstone - May 25...
- Lindsay Hannon & Bradley Johnston @ Vicolo - May 2...
- Ruth Lambert Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 26
- Jazz Loses a Stalwart - R.I.P. Margaret Barnes
- Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone - May 25
- CD Review: NYSQ - Sleight of Hand
- Talinka @ St Ives Jazz Club - May 23
- CD Review:: Elijah Rock - Gershwin for My Soul
- Thursday 25th MAY 10.15pm (GMT) BUDDY RICH BIG BAN...
- Zoë Gilby: Pannonica @ The Fox Inn, Hexham - May 2...
- Durham City Jazz Festival - Details announced
- CD Review: New Simplicity Trio - Common Spaces
- RIP Mickey Roker
- Maine Street Jazzmen @ Seaton Sluice Social Club -...
- Dulcie May Moreno @ The Globe, May 21
- London Vocal Project - Jon Hendricks’s Miles Ahead...
- CD Review: VEIN - The Chamber Music Effect
- Alter Ego @ Blaydon Jazz Club - May 21
- Johnny Hunter Quartet @ the Jazz Café - May 19
- If Only the number 27 stopped on Park Avenue ...
- Discover Your Alter Ego at Blaydon Jazz Club
- Newcastle Grainger Market Late Shows - May 20
- CD Review: Tom Syson Sextet - Green.
- Dean Stockdale Trio @ The Lit & Phil, Newcastle - ...
- Frankly Sinatra - Stephen Triffitt @ Sage Gateshea...
- Strictly Smokin' Big Band at Ushaw College - Frida...
- Lickety Split @ The Globe, Newcastle - May 18
- JNE: Early Nite + Pete Tantons’ Riviera Quartet @ ...
- Cookin’ @ The Jazz Café - May 16
- DJAZZ : The Durham City Jazz Festival Friday 2nd –...
- CD Review: Quinsin Nachoff's Ethereal Trio
- The Jazztones @ The Quakerhouse, Darlington - May1...
- Philonious Funk @ Jesmond Library - May 13
- Sue Ferris @ Opus 4, Traveller's Rest, Darlington ...
- BLT on video
- Joy Ellis Quartet @ The Jazz Café - May12
- CD Review: Polly Gibbons - Is It Me...?
- Paul Taylor @ St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle - M...
- BABMUS @ The Jazz Café - May 11
- Last night at the Globe
- Look! The Broken Doll! The Globe!
- Visual Jazz – Gina Southgate Exhibition @ the Gall...
- Led Bib @ the Bridge Hotel May 5
- CD Review: George Colligan - More Powerful
- Keep an eye out for the Miriam Ast Quintet
- Snarky Puppy/House of Waters @ Sage Gateshead, May...
- Denys Baptiste's The Late Trane @ Pizza Express St...
- Arun Ghosh @ Family Tent, Cheltenham Jazz Festival...
- Paul Edis Sextet @ the Jazz Café - May 5
- An Evening with Lin Lee Wong @ The Cherry Tree - M...
- From Cullercoats to Copacabana - The Gala Big Band...
- Friday Night is Music Night
- Yazz Ahmed Halfla Band @ Parabola Arts Centre, Che...
- Chris Potter Quartet @ Pizza Express Stage, Chelte...
- International Jazz Day @ The Globe - April 30
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Dave O’Higgins @ The Maj...
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Jazz comes to the Quaker...
- Chick Corea Trio @ Big Top, Cheltenham Jazz Festiv...
- Meshell Ndegeocello @ Pizza Express Stage, Chelten...
- Sleepthief @ Sage Gateshead - April 29
- Jazz Café Jam Session - May 2.
- Darlington Jazz Festival: Matt Roberts Sextet @ Vo...
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Not a very original title, I know; not even an accurate one as my taste, whilst centred around the music of Bird and Diz, extends in many directions and I listen to everything from King Oliver to Chick Corea and beyond. Not forgetting the Great American Songbook the contents of which has provided the inspiration for much great jazz and quality popular singing for round about a century.
The idea of this blog is for you to share your thoughts and pass on your comments on discs, gigs, jazz - music in general. If you've been to a gig/concert or heard a CD that knocked you sideways please share your views with us. Tell us about your favourites, your memories, your dislikes.
Lance (Who wishes it to be known that he is not responsible for postings other than his own and that he's not always responsible for them.)

1 comment :
Thanks for that Hugh, I was planning to do it but got bogged down in Cheltenham.
I too was recommended it but was surprised by how rockstar it was. I recall the last time I saw the Unthanks and figured the dry ice and lightshow would mark the end for the folkies and this could be the same for the Jazzers, though lots of Jamboneers and Early Birds there. Personally, coming from a rock background, at least from 71 to early 74 I like a good light show.
While I enjoyed it, I didn't love it; it was very Jazz, funk, rock without being either Jazz funk or Jazz rock and certainly not smooth. It's probably more prog rock than anything else and the percussion duel reminded me (and a couple more old Genesis nuts) of the old Phil Collins and Bill Bruford or Collins and Chester Thompson partnerships.
I took a few photos really to illustrate the lightshow but each time it seemed to explode in light. However I'll send them to Lance and he can decided if he wants to do anything with them.
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