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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.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Rendezvous Jazz @ The Piper, Cullercoats. October 2nd

Maureen Hall (vocals), Iain MacAulay (trombone, trumpet & vocals), Brian Chester (trombone), Mac Smith (keyboards), John Robinson (double bass) & Jim McKeown (drums) + Doris Fenn (banjolele), Teresa Armstrong (vocals), Roy Gibson (keyboards) & John (vocals)
First Saturday in the month can mean only one thing - a rendezvous with Maureen Hall and the Boys down at the coast.
Maureen was a bit concerned that the band would be without both clarinet and trumpet (Barry Soulsby was indisposed and Alan Smith has gone into retirement). Well, she need not have worried. Announcing that a late dep meant a two trombone frontline, I for one, was delighted. All the more delighted when in walked Brian Chester hot foot from the West Jesmond Rhythm Kings' afternoon gig way down south in Darlington.
Chester and MacAulay, two of the north east's finest trombone players, have contrasting styles and this was a great opportunity to hear them at length over the course of the evening.
Rosetta, taken as an instrumental, got things under way. In my head I could hear Hall (and Jimmy Rushing) singing the lyric. I did then hear Maureen herself as she sang Somebody Loves Me and Iain MacAulay sang CC Rider.
Tunes were drawn from the Deep South, as one would expect, yet the set list also drew on the GAS Book. Rodgers and Hart's Blue Moon and Gershwin's Summertime were expertly handled by Hall. MacAulay can play trumpet when called upon and his vocal rendition of another Gershwin classic - Lady Be Good - was just about as GG intended!
The Gas Book was delved into again for Teresa Armstrong's interval spot. Accompanied by pianist Roy Gibson and Jim McKeown she wowed the audience, as always, with Cole Porter's C'est Magnifique the highlight.
The great Doris Fenn sat in on the second set and if you can comp on the banjolele then she comped damn good! The tunes came thick and fast - Sweet Georgia Brown, You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Hall belting it out!), an instrumental Autumn Leaves (at a slightly faster tempo than usual) with MacAulay singing and contributing effective trumpet and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.
Spirituals are seldom heard. I love them. Maureen Hall excels on such material. She sang Take My Hand, Precious Lord.
Great stuff.
A most enjoyable gig with trombonists Big Jim Robinson and Kid Ory...sorry, I mean, Brian Chester and Iain MacAulay, for once almost stealing the show from bandleader Hall with an excellent two-'bone version of Shine.
The Piper next calls the Rendezvous Jazz tune on Saturday 6th November (8:30 pm). If you can't wait that long then catch the band's weekly (Friday) lunchtime session down at the Porthole (next to North Shield's Ferry landing).
Russell.

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