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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.

Saturday, November 04, 2017

CD Review: Roly Veitch - A Canny Tale Crowley's Crew.

Roly Veitch (vocal/guitar/banjo/uke) + Stewart Hardy (fiddle on 6 tracks)
(Review by Lance).
By the time the final track ended I felt as though I'd lived in Blaydon all my life even though, apart from the various pubs and clubs where Blaydon Jazz Club has, over the years, nested and passing through the town en route elsewhere I'd had little or no connection to the place.
Admittedly, I'd had a pint or two in the Crowley Hotel but had had no idea as to the origins of its name.
Until now.
Roly Veitch has removed his jazz hat and replaced it with a cloth cap and muffler (or whatever the working man wore in Blaydon long long ago) to tell us in song and story of his hometown's industrial past.

He does it with so much feeling that I imagined I was on backshift down the pit at Winlaton, working in Crowley's Ironworks or his Brickworks. Maybe smelting lead, having fun at the Winlaton Hoppings, going to the races on Blaydon Island - yes there was an island in the Tyne - fighting the Scots at Stella Haugh, meeting Coffee Johnny who wore a white top hat, shopping at 'The Store' (Coop) or maybe working as a keelman. I have cycled along the Keelman's Way past George Stephenson's Cottage across the river from Blaydon and my own hometown, Hebburn, actually has a Keelman's Way School...
Most of the songs are composed by Roly who sings then with the same laidback, wistful sound he applies to his jazz vocals. Close your eyes and you'd think Chet Baker lived in Blaydon - if he had a Geordie accent that is!
No doubting Roly's accent and yet it's not so pronounced as to be incomprehensible in other parts of the country or, indeed, the English speaking world. Nor is it the pseudo-Geordie accent beloved of TV.
As Roly says, "I'm a Tynesider and proudly must say 'Give me the language that's spoken my way.'

Blaydon has a population of 15,155 which should take care of the first pressing.
Lance.
Special mention of Neil Harland's mixing, Dave Kerr's artwork and (on 6 tracks) Stuart Hardy's fiddle playing.

1 comment :

Lance said...

My Folk Record of the Year.

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