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, [...]
Rob Adams reviews Gary West’s biography of celebrated piper Martyn Bennett. Brave New Music: The Martyn Bennett Story was launched at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 30 January, 2025. He was the piper who caused a sensation at Glasgow Jazz [...]
Recorded between the demise of his Trinity and the release of the first Oblivion Express album, this previously unreleased live set shines some unexpected light on what Brian Auger was up to in 1970. Oblivion Express offered the keyboardist now [...]
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 [...]
