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Lyrics by Sting, Joe Jackson and Kent-based singer-songwriter-activist Nina Clark feature alongside those of Great American Songbook contributors Lorenz Hart and Sammy Kahn and the singer himself in Kurt Elling’s latest concerts with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Kurt Elling, [...]
Saxophonist Helena Kay and pianist Zoe Rahman will be appearing as a duo next month, as the first of the the new Jazz Thursdays series which she curates at Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Helena Kay will relive a moment from [...]
The word had surely got out in advance but there were still some present who genuinely didn’t know what they had come to hear. Which was Wynton Marsalis playing an unannounced gig to open Edinburgh International Festival’s Up Lates programme. [...]
BBC Radio Scotland is announcing a second competition for its Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Applications open today 29 July and close on 15 September The press release gives background: “The award is intended to encourage and highlight the wealth [...]
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival: Playtime with Byron Wallen, Soweto Kinch Trio, Matthew Kilner Quartet, Laura Jurd Quintet, Norman Willmore Sextet, Tim Garland’s Lighthouse Trio It’s the middle of July, and the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival comes around again: [...]
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in Glasgow has announced the winners of the prizes awarded annually to students on its jazz course at the end of the academic year. Three jazz students – Drummer Roan Anderson, from Inverclyde, bass [...]
Following a successful first year, Summer Jazz Camp Scotland, directed by Andrew Bain and Ryan Quigley, is returning to the South Lanarkshire hills this August. Feature and interview with saxophone tutor Helena Kay. Scottish National Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Helena Kay [...]
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2024 will take place in the city from 12-21 July, at several venues including the re-opened Jazz Bar. UKJN writers and Edinburgh residents Patrick Hadfield and Mark McKergow pick some events they are looking [...]
Nick and Justyna Mushlin have just launched a crowdfunder under the banner “The New Jazz Bar – Saving The Music”. Their aims are described in detail on their Crowdfunder site – link below – are: “to start a new venture [...]
Marking the centenary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and pianist Makoto Ozone became the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s latest guests in a performance of Tommy Smith‘s re-orchestration of the landmark composition. Gershwin’s was one of the first works to bring together [...]
