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Attention: my multi-talented, Women in Jazz Media colleague, jazz vocalist Fiona Ross is coming to Scotland this October, to perform an exclusive live acoustic set that will include material from her recent award-winning album ‘Thoughts, Conversations and To Do List’. In addition, three newly composed songs will be debuted at this Scottish mini-tour.

With a highly distinctive vocal style and engaging chat, she has become known for creating her own contemporary jazz sound…
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Scottish Jazz Space’s FM is expanding her vision – into Jazz agency work!

Scottish Jazz Space was founded several years ago by me, FM, to support the fantastic music that’s happening around the…
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Introducing: Jazz Forward! ✨✨✨✨ Jazz Forward is “a new live music agency bringing exciting and original Scottish Jazz to audiences everywhere”.

Founded by a collective of established musicians/multi-instrumentalists Marianne McGregor, Malcolm MacFarlane and Sophie Bancroft and music journalist (and Scottish Jazz…
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Ali Affleck, Scottish-American Jazz singer. Scottish Jazz Space’s FM interviewed Ali for Women In Jazz Media – she speaks about her lived experience of mental health issues.

Photo courtesy of Jazz Scotland https://womeninjazzmedia.com/Women-in-Jazz-Media-Magazine-July-2022/
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Keyna Wilkins is a Sydney-based composer-musician whose music has been variously characterised as (amongst other labels) Art Music, Space Jazz and Indigenous-Jazz Fusion. Certain of her preoccupations resonate with issues that we here in Scotland, likewise face. Scottish Jazz Space’s FM had the pleasure of interviewing her recently.

Photo credit: Phyllis Wong. https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2021/12/keyna-wilkins-composing-soundtracks-to-some-of-the-biggest-issues-of-our-time/
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Lukas Ligeti is a composer, drummer, electronic percussionist and improvisor whose conceptually rich and genre transcending music is attracting increasing attention world-wide. He hasn’t played in Scotland for a few years now, but hopefully he’ll tour through here again in the not too distant future! ? Here is SJS’ (under my name FM) recent interview with him, as appeared in Jazz In Europe today 5th July 2021.

Credits for within-article photos: Markus Sepperer. https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2021/07/lukas-ligeti-discovering-new-types-of-beauty/?fbclid=IwAR3H9f78i7oH0AF9BhPGYK3ryhLPNc1eDfVtKd7RosPpZF2YYVdkyp4l33M
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Jazz in Europe have run an interview with me (FM) to promote the Scottish jazz scene! ? A bit of a stream of consciousness gush from me, but hey, Scottish jazz IS AMAZING!

(This article was originally planned to come out on International Women’s Day, hence the greater focus on women jazzers.) https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2021/05/the-scottish-jazz-space/
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Baz Gordon and The Tomorrow Band, a new Scottish funk and soul supergroup release their debut single on 26 March 2021: ‘Time At Last’. Judging by this song & the the wee video below, the album ‘Inside/Outside’ due to launch at this year’s Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, will be stonking!

This is a concept album about living in lockdown over the course of a day, written by Gordon during the…
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Tele-Port, the final band to appear at SHUFFLE Luxembourg on 11 March 2021, played up a very free and adventurous storm. Here is the quartet playing ‘Epiphany’. Their album ‘Tele-Port’ was released in 2019. Tele-Port with Jeff Herr, Pol Belardi, Zhenya Strigalev and Jerome Klein. Congratulations to the organisers of SHUFFLE for sharing some of Luxembourg’s very best music. ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZgoqL5VQKw&list=PLvxzHiKNCHiMX_TJRIwYB3XrTUz9SXMZ3&index=15&ab_channel=music%3ALX%2CLuxembourgExportOffice
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Vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher was 7th to play at SHUFFLE Luxembourg on 11 March 2021, presenting a beautiful solo set. His album ‘Sol’ (the musical note, the sun, going solo for the first time, the present lonely time) came out in 2020. Here is the very lovely title tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48kTz5OYDc&list=PLvxzHiKNCHiMX_TJRIwYB3XrTUz9SXMZ3&index=13&ab_channel=music%3ALX%2CLuxembourgExportOffice