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Bebop Spoken There

Béla Fleck: “ And that's the great thing about live performances, you take people on a journey. It doesn't have to be like something else they've heard. It's not supposed to be". DownBeat, April, 2024.

The Things They Say!

Hudson Music: Lance's "Bebop Spoken Here" is one of the heaviest and most influential jazz blogs in the UK.

Rupert Burley (Dynamic Agency): "BSH just goes from strength to strength".

'606' Club: "A toast to Lance Liddle of the terrific jazz blog 'Bebop Spoken Here'"

The Strictly Smokin' Big Band included Be Bop Spoken Here (sic) in their 5 Favourite Jazz Blogs.

Ann Braithwaite (Braithwaite & Katz Communications) You’re the BEST!

Holly Cooper, Mouthpiece Music: "Lance writes pull quotes like no one else!"

Simon Spillett: A lovely review from the dean of jazz bloggers, Lance Liddle...

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

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

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.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Mike had a sense of humour!

The passing of Mike Carr (seen here with guitarist Willie Payne) reminded me of some emails we exchanged a few years ago. His friend Adrian had collated a lot of quotes which Mike hoped would make me laugh as much as they did him.
Well Mike, they certainly did - and still do. Thank You.
Lance.

"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them." Richard Strauss.
"One of the perks of being an unemployed musician is that you get to play much less bad music." Jack Daney.
"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley.
"Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. “Igor Stravinsky.

"Hell is full of musical amateurs." George Bernard Shaw.
"The drummer drives. Everybody else rides!" Panama Francis.
"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins." Dizzy Gillespie on playing the trumpet.
 "Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one." Duke Ellington.
"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time." Ornette Coleman.
"We never play anything the same way once. “Shelly Manne's definition of jazz musicians.
"Someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn't." AI Cohn's definition of a gentleman.
"Music is a very hard instrument." Vido Musso.
"The only tune they play in 4/4 is 'Take Five!"' (unknown-talking about the Don Ellis band).
"If I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton. Chet Baker.
"I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna' keep playin'. Clark Terry.
"A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves." Herbie Hancock.
"To be a musician is a curse. To NOT be one is even worse. Jack Daney.
"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already" Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria. 
"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve." Xavier Cugat.
"Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art." Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.
"Only become.a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living." Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer.
"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet." Niccolo Paganini.
What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste?" Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats." Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.
 "If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. “Oscar Wilde.
"Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together." Mel Brooks.
"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years." William F. Buckley, Jr. 
"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow." Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket. 
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Mark Twain.
"Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently." James Gibbons Hunekar.
"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."  Walter Oamrosch on Aaron Copland.
 "There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major." Sergei Prokofiev.
"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?" Dimitri Mitropolous.
 "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way. “Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player.
"Already too loud! “Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, on seeing the players reaching for their instruments.
"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere." Frederic Chopin.
 "When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. “Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis DilIer.
 "In opera, there is always too much singing." Claude Debussy.
"Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!" Giacchino Rossini.
"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that has made giant strides in reverse." Bing Crosby.
 “A ponderous orchestral absurdity." Frank Zappa on his rock symphony debuted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
"The bottom line of any country is, what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong." Tony Bennett.
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing!" - Duke Ellington.

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