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The fabulous Rose Room’s latest, beautiful album, ‘It’s Been A Long. Long Time,’ reviewed in Jazz In Europe.

https://jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl/2025/05/cd-review-rose-room-its-been-a-long-long-time/
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Tectonics Festival of new and experimental music returns to Glasgow, this weekend! 3 & 4 May 2025.

At the City Halls & Old Fruitmarket. Tickets here: https://www.tectonicsfestival.com/buy-ticket  
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Launch of new Scottish Jazz online radio show!!

‘Shire Extra’, a brand new online radio channel launched just a few days ago! ‘Jazz Night’: Celebrating the music, art…
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Spicy L’ll Devils: this’ll be a fun one! At Edinburgh’s The Jazz Bar, kick off at 9.15pm this Wednesday 9th April.

Tickets on The Jazz Bar site, or on the door.    
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The very excellent Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with the fabulous Trilok Gurtu, last weekend in The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. What tremendous music this was, not least Gurtu’s mind-blowing solo!

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Brilliant gig yesterday at St Bride’s Centre, as part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival’s mini festival, NOVUS. Pianist Chris Lyons’ gorgeous improvisations on piano were followed by an arrestingly beautiful set from Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm, with Gyan Singh and Graeme Stephen.

Such great music being created here in Scotland!        
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Aberdeen Jazz Festival returns from 13–23 March 2025, and thanks to funding support from The National Lottery through Creative Scotland & Aberdeen City Council, it’s bigger than ever.

Lots of truly brilliant Scottish music – Norman Willmore and Corrie Dick, Phil Bancroft- The Beautiful Storm, Philip Adie in…
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DJ-Producer Rebecca Vasmant, who is increasingly a fabulous ambassador for Scottish jazz, has released a single last Thursday: ‘Rooted.’

Photo credit: Ellie Koepke With a poignant backstory relating to her grandparents being Holocaust survivors, it’s a beautiful track, which…
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SoSaLa’s latest album, 1994, was released recently. It’s really great No Wave music from this NY-based music activist. Here’s my brief album review.

SoSaLa – ‘1994 – Live at CBGB’ Album review. At the present moment in time we are seeing increasing numbers…
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This morning in UK Jazz News, a review of Simon Thacker and Justyna Jablonska’s dazzling new album.

https://ukjazznews.com/simon-thacker-and-justyna-jablonska-songs-of-the-roma/