Glasgow-based saxophonist Brian Molley has forged strong links with India. His quartet’s previous album, Intercontinental, released in 2022, was a collaboration with percussionist Krishna Kishor, who recorded his contributions remotely in Chennai due to the covid epidemic. This latest release [...]
For the second in the series of four concerts that saxophonist Helena Kay has been invited to curate at the venue the saxophonist’s quartet will be revisiting Golden Sands, Kay’s second album. It’s the opening act, improvising folk duo Norman&Corrie, [...]
Scottish composer, classical guitarist, improviser and ensemble leader Simon Thacker and Edinburgh-based Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska cut across neoclassical-folk-experimental territory in their collaboration. The pair have issued a previous album, Karmana (2016), and the ease of their musical relationship is [...]
Ali Watson is a Glasgow-based bass player, rooted in that city’s vibrant jazz scene, perhaps most familiar for his work with Matt Carmichael. Terrarium, his debut album, proves him to be a talented composer, too. Joined by Carmichael, together with [...]
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 [...]
