Category: Concert Review
?A Happy Christmas to all of you lovely Scottish Jazz Space followers, and may 2023 be a very good year for you! ? Here for your Christmas pleasure is a fun blues from Paisley’s Evelyn Laurie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeDadOXc00A&ab_channel=EvelynLaurieMusic
A Live Review! Edinburgh-born pianist-composer Ben Shankland’s trio played a gem of a set at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Autumn series recently. The trio was completed by Glasgow-based drummer Chun-Wei Kang and BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022, Kirkcaldy bassist Ewan Hastie. More below..
All three musicians delivered very impressively, Shankland generously allowing each of the trio adequate solo time to air their obvious…
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Where Rivers Meet – Live Review. The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 29th September 2022
This highly ambitious project was first performed last April in Edinburgh’s darkly atmospheric St Giles Cathedral, with Russian artist Maria…
Flamenco Jazz Sketches, Philip Adie / Luis Salto Duo at Alba Flamenca, Edinburgh, 28 August 2022
There was a time when it seemed as though Edinburgh Festival Fringe mostly took place in hard to locate, tiny…
Fills Monkey: We Will Drum You – at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Live review by SJS’ Fiona Mactaggart, for London Jazz News. A joyfully frenetic show of percussion and clowning about… ??
https://londonjazznews.com/2022/09/01/fills-monkey-we-will-drum-you-at-the-edinburgh-fringe/
Here is the Scottish Jazz Space overview of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2022, for the wonderful New York zine, DooBeeDooBeeDoo!! [Under my name, FM]
https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/2022/08/20/festival-review-edinburgh-jazz-and-blues-festival-ejbf-july-2022/
Live Review: Fine Men With Foul Tongues. Piccolo, George Square, Edinburgh. Sunday 24 July 2022
Bassist Brodie Jarvie’s marvellously-monikered Fine Men With Foul Tongues (FMWFT) is certainly a fine septet, composed of some of Scotland’s…
Live Review: Archipélagos. The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. Saturday 23 July 2022
Nowadays in Scotland it seems less often that we have the pleasure of hearing live a quality band of jazzers…
Live Review: Mndmth / Mistafaz / Harry Weir; with support from IT. La Belle Angele, Hasties Close, Edinburgh. Friday 22 July 2022
Proving just how diverse Scottish jazz can be and how cross-over with other musical genres can bear fruits of many…