Category: Jazz
Scottish Jazz Space’s Fiona Mactaggart, together with established musicians Sophie Bancroft, Malcolm MacFarlane and Marianne McGregor, has co-founded an agency – the first in Scotland to focus on Jazz! ???? Launch concerts are happening across the Scottish central belt this November 2022!! More details below ?
03/09/2022
https://www.jazzforward.scot/events/
Introducing: Jazz Forward! ✨✨✨✨ Jazz Forward is “a new live music agency bringing exciting and original Scottish Jazz to audiences everywhere”.
01/09/2022
Founded by a collective of established musicians/multi-instrumentalists Marianne McGregor, Malcolm MacFarlane and Sophie Bancroft and music journalist (and Scottish Jazz…
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.
16/07/2022
Photo courtesy of Jazz Scotland https://womeninjazzmedia.com/Women-in-Jazz-Media-Magazine-July-2022/
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.
30/12/2021
Photo credit: Phyllis Wong. https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2021/12/keyna-wilkins-composing-soundtracks-to-some-of-the-biggest-issues-of-our-time/
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.
05/07/2021
Credits for within-article photos: Markus Sepperer. https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2021/07/lukas-ligeti-discovering-new-types-of-beauty/?fbclid=IwAR3H9f78i7oH0AF9BhPGYK3ryhLPNc1eDfVtKd7RosPpZF2YYVdkyp4l33M
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!
13/05/2021
(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/
For International Women’s Day, here is a Q and A with the wonderful Scottish violinist, vocalist and composer Seonaid Aitken!
08/03/2021
https://londonjazznews.com/2021/03/08/iwd2021-violinist-vocalist-and-composer-seonaid-aitken/