BRIDGE Music’s twice-weekly jazz sessions at Swing in Hope Street, Glasgow are set to continue. The sessions, started by drummer and jazz organiser Bill Kyle shortly before his death in late October last year, consist of a Friday concert programme featuring local and international musicians and an informal jam session on Tuesdays, overseen by drummer Doug Hough. This Friday’s guests are vintage jazz singer Ali Affleck and her band, the Copper Cats and future Friday attractions so far announced include experimental trio NeWt (January 20), Canadian pianist Paul Melling’s E.S.P. Trio (February 3), trombonist Patrick Kelly (February 17), and saxophonist Brian Molley’s quartet.
Kyle, who was proprietor of the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh for eleven years, had a history of promoting jazz in Glasgow going back to the early 1970s and before starting the Swing sessions he had organised weekly jazz concerts at Glasgow Arts Club until June 2015.
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SCOTS-Welsh chamber music group the Bardic Trio play a series of concerts in Scotland during January and February. Comprising tenor and radio presenter Jamie MacDougall, pictured, guitarist Matthew McAllister and Welsh harpist Sharron Griffiths, the trio formed after a meeting with renowned Mexican harpist Angel Padilla Crespo. This led to them commissioning works from composers Eddie McGuire and Arturo Marquez.
The programme they will be playing on tour will include songs by Robert Burns arranged by Eddie McGuire, plus Welsh, Irish and English folksongs as well as folksongs from across the world. The tour begins at Kintyre Music Club on Friday, January 13 and continues to Mid Argyll Arts Association (14th), Oban Music Society (15th), Strathearn Music Club (18th), Islay Arts Association (19th), Bute Arts Society (20th), Cowal Music Club (22nd), Beith Arts (29th), and Inverurie Music (February 11).
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EDINBURGH’S Playtime jazz sessions return to the Outhouse in Broughton Street Lane on Thursday, January 12 with the first of three concerts announced so far. The Playtime House Quartet – saxophonist Martin Kershaw, guitarist Graeme Stephen, bassist Mario Caribe and drummer Tom Bancroft – kicks off the new season with original compositions and imaginative rearrangements of familiar pieces from the jazz cannon.
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra trombonist Chris Greive joins the Playtime regulars for a Jazz Crusaders tribute on Thursday, January 26 and saxophonist Laura Macdonald will be the guest on Thursday, February 9. All concerts begin at 8:00pm.
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