UK Jazz News

July 23, 2022

Three concerts in Edinburgh. July 2022

Trumpeter and, for these gigs at least, cornetist Laura Jurd made her first trip to the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, and having got here made the most of the trip, appearing in three concerts across three days in three very different [...]

Festival Theatre Studio. 21 July 2022

This astounding performance by young musicians from across Europe produced 75 minutes of disciplined, varied and exciting music without any visible scores, arrangements or written parts.  The quality of the music-making bodes extremely well for the future. The project is [...]

John W. Bubbles, an American Classic

John W. Bubbles was one of the great song-and-dance entertainers, the tap dancer who inspired Fred Astaire. He was a contemporary of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, and his vaudeville partnership Buck and Bubbles was popular for more than thirty [...]

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