When Jyotsna Srikanth heard a violin being played for the first time, at a concert in Bangalore at the age of five, she was so taken by the instrument that when she got home she...
Two of Scotland’s leading jazz musicians step into big shoes when they pay tribute to musical giants at a special concert presentation of the music from classic albums Charlie...
Scottish Saxophonist Laura Macdonald and New York pianist David Berkman mark the release of their new Duets album with a London Jazz Festival launch and a series of dates in...
You don’t need a degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University to play jazz but it certainly helped pianist and composer Philip Clouts. South Africa-born Clouts, who...
By: Rob Adams Ronnie Scott used to joke that the food his jazz club in Soho, London served was delicious because “fifty thousand flies can’t be wrong.” Four miles west, at...
When it comes to professional advice, London-based drummer Ollie Howell, who is about to lead his acclaimed quintet on its first tour of Scotland, can call on the best available....
Bridge Music, the organisation that promotes jazz in the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh and Glasgow Art Club, has announced a full programme for September and October. New York-based...
Scottish fifteen-piece fusion collective Fat-Suit have announced their first European tour, beginning later this month. The band, which formed last year and has been likened to...
Singer Alison Affleck, saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, and long-serving BBC radio producer Keith Loxam were among the prize winners at the...
Jazz singer and composer Christine Tobin has won a Herald Angel for her performance of her programme of Leonard Cohen songs, A Thousand Kisses Deep, at the Edinburgh Fringe...