Category: Concert Review
Live Review: De Beren Gieren. The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. Monday 18 July 2022
Last Monday evening at Edinburgh’s Jazz Bar, lovers of the musically mildly outré had a bit of a treat. Belgian…
Live Review: Alan Benzie – Tribute to the Headhunters. Piccolo, George Square, Edinburgh. Sunday 17 July 2022
Opening the two-set gig, Alyn Cosker set the tone. His relentlessly deep and loud funk groove was shortly joined by…
Live Review: SCuba. Piccolo, George Square, Edinburgh. Sunday 17 July 2022
This energetic, new-to-Scottish Jazz Space quintet certainly raised Edinburgh’s already semi-tropical temperatures further, with their scorching Latin jazz sounds at…
Live review of Trio HLK, at The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Thursday 21st April 2022.
Witnessing the emergence and evolution of a high quality band is always a great pleasure and privilege, which is heightened…
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Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh. A similar review appeared in Songlines magazine, May issue.
Phone snap & concert review by Fiona Mactaggart. Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland March 15, 2020…
Norma Winstone + support by Louise Dodds, The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 February 2020.
The unusually prolonged dreich weather this winter may have dampened the general spirits somewhat, so tonight’s dazzling jazz programming was…
JZ Replacement, The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 February 2020
Horizontal sleet pursued us through the outer doors and down the steep stairs to the crimson-lit basement bar, where Russian…
Counterflows: Joe McPhee with Decoy, with support from Elaine Mitchener (solo), The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 31 January 2020
Phone snaps by Fiona Mactaggart. The third and last of this season’s Edinburgh – outreach gigs, presented by Glasgow’s Counterflows,…
Allan McKeown Quartet, Whighams Wine Cellars, Edinburgh, Scotland, 19 January 2020.
It was with some mild relief – I really should have asked before now – that this over-thinker learned of…
Counterflows: Beatrice Dillon & Guests The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 November 2019
Since 2012, Counterflows has brought experimental and underground music into focus in Glasgow, and this winter it is Edinburgh’s turn to…