The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra has commissioned compositions from some of Scotland’s most exciting young jazz musicians for a series of concerts running in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow from 31 January to 2 February. Nu-Age Sounds – Planet World follows [...]
Guitarist Timmy Allan came through a tightly competitive final to win the BBC Radio Scotland Young Jazz Musician 2024 at a session held at the corporation’s Pacific Quay HQ and broadcast live on air. Allan, a 28-year-old fourth year student [...]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra has added an extra performance to its Remembering Duke tour, which visits Glasgow, St Andrews and Edinburgh from 29 November to 1 December. In partnership with Care UK, the SNJO will present a relaxed afternoon edition of [...]
There’s a poignancy as well as a delight in hearing this third album by Kent-based pianist-composer Ray Guntrip and the late singer Tina May. No-one was to know in August 2021 that this would be Tina’s final recording session and [...]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, corto.alto and singer Georgia Cécile head up the jazz contingent at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival, which takes place across the city from Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2025. The SNJO features in two [...]
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 [...]
