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Dr Lee’s Prescription – Live review 25 October 2024, The Wash House, Edinburgh. “..a band to seek out if your autumn could do with a little good cheer.”

Photo credit: Livia Katay. In Edinburgh’s seaside suburb of Portobello, the dark autumn evening promised more dourness to come, but…
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David Series – Hidden Waves. The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, as part of Edinburgh Fringe. Sunday 4th August 2024.

Phone snap by Fiona Mactaggart Last night’s jazz concert at the recently re-opened Jazz Bar began vigorously, going from strength…
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The East Neuk Festival is an annual treat, and regularly showcases boundary-crossing musician-composers such as French bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons. Here is Scottish Jazz Space’s FM’s review in DooBeeDooBeeDoo-New York, of his two first-rate gigs!

Photo credits:  Neil Hanna https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/live-review-renaud-garcia-fons-solo-and-in-quartet-at-the-east-neuk-festival-scotland/  
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Norman&Corrie, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 9th May 2024. Live review

Photo credit: the artists. It was with high expectations that this writer attended Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, where two highly versatile…
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Live Review: Anoushka Shankar, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, 27th August 2023.

An enthusiastic full house greeted sitar master, Anoushka Shankar last Sunday evening at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, where in quintet she…
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Live Review: Edinburgh International Festival presents LANKUM at The Queen’s Hall, 17th August 2023. “Perhaps most striking of all is the sincerity and intensity with which Lankum perform. Their words and music seem to come from a very deep place, though any possible shadows there are expressed so very, very beautifully.” More below..

Some unsettling but rather captivating ambient electronic music put early-arriving audience members in an appropriate mood for this much anticipated…
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Live review: Sue McKenzie Trio + Friends The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, 16th July 2023

Last night Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival-goers were treated at The Jazz Bar, to a slightly over 1 hour set…
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Students, this will be SO great!!

https://londonjazznews.com/2023/07/03/summer-jazz-camp-scotland-announced-7-11-august/
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The Epic presents: Big Band! This is a brilliant, FREE opportunity for those interested in playing Jazz, to spend a day ‘up-grading’ their skills & having fun with like-minded folk!

“..a one-day event at the Queen Margaret Union on Saturday 27 May from 10am onwards, with breaks and sectionals. There…
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Demuth / Wiszniewski Quartet and NooVision live review, 26th March 2023, St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh.

With a population of around 650000, Luxembourg is a considerably smaller nation that Scotland, the latter having approximately 6 million…