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Graeme Stephen Septet, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Graeme Stephen likes to get audiences smiling.

The Aberdeen-born guitarist has developed a stage persona prone to make authoritative statements, about climbing Everest, for instance, which he then quickly and disowns. The audience smiles – and then smiles again when they hear the piece he’s been introducing.