THE JAZZ Bar in Edinburgh has released a 2-CD set to celebrate ten years of staging live music in its Chambers Street basement premises.
Regular performers at the club, including pianists Campbell Normand, Chick Lyall and Fergus McCreadie, the Jazz Bar Big Band, Monday residents Glamour & the Baybes and blues singer-guitarist John Hunt, whose paintings are also on permanent exhibition on the club walls, are among twenty-four acts whose contributions were captured during a week of recording in September last year.
The album comes complete with a history of the club, whose predecessor, the Bridge Jazz Bar, was destroyed in the Cowgate fire in 2002 and whose owner, Bill Kyle, has collected awards from the Scottish Licensed Trade News, the All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Group, Edinburgh City Council and the Herald.
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SAXOPHONIST Mark Lockheart joins musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland’s Futures project to present his orchestral settings of music associated with Duke Ellington at the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Thursday, October 20.
Lockheart, a member of trailblazing London bands Loose Tubes and Polar Bear, re-arranged compositions including Caravan, Mood Indigo, Creole Love Call and Billy Strayhorn’s theme tune for the Ellington Orchestra, Take the A Train for his critically acclaimed Ellington In Anticipation album, released in 2013.
He will be playing these as well brand new re-workings of In A Mellow Tone, Raincheck and I’m Beginning To See The Light with an ensemble comprising Perth-born pianist Malcolm Edmonstone and a specially selected group of young jazz and classical musicians. The concert begins at 8pm.
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