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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. [...]
Julian Costello and Vertigo – Julian Costello, tenor and soprano saxophones; Natalie Rozario, cello and vocals; Stefanos Tsourelis, oud and guitar; Sophie Alloway, drums; and special guest Iqbal Pathan, tabla – launch their new album (on the Elsden Music label) [...]
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 [...]
Threeway (Ben Crosland – bass composition, Steve Lodder – keyboards, Steve Waterman – trumpet) with guest John Etheridge have a new album, HARKEN!, marking the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Sedbergh School in Cumbria. Rob Adams writes: Sedbergh isn’t [...]
The focus of the SNJO’s 2009 album, Rhapsody in Blue Live, Gershwin’s jazz age classic is being given a fresh re-orchestration by SNJO artistic director, saxophonist Tommy Smith to celebrate its centenary. Two of the concerts will see the SNJO [...]
When Ben Higham looks ahead to the album launch for The Brass Monkeys’ latest release, Lullabite, at PizzaExpress in Dean Street on 28 April he says, “It’ll be cosy.” With eight musicians playing instruments including tuba and French horn, alongside [...]
Six years on from their first album, Standard Time the hyperactive, intensely creative Trio HLK return with the long-awaited follow-up, “Anthropometricks”, and a launch concert at Kings Place. Like its predecessor, Anthropometricks is more than a three-person effort… “With ‘Standard [...]
