Star rating: **** Following an inaugural homage to Duke Ellington, the second performance by the newly formed Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra brought matters closer to home while retaining a link, through the mighty Joe Temperley, with its first concert.

Star rating: ****

Following an inaugural homage to Duke Ellington, the second performance by the newly formed Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra brought matters closer to home while retaining a link, through the mighty Joe Temperley, with its first concert.

The Fife-born baritone saxophonist, who played in the Ellington orchestra under Duke's son, Mercer, gave a beautiful version of Robert Burns's My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose that slotted in perfectly with pianist David Milligan's music inspired by the relationship between Burns and Agnes MacLehose.

The love affairs of Scotland's national bard might not seem an obvious basis for a big band jazz project. But Milligan has a touch that can unite Scottish musical sensibilities very naturally with the jazz syntax and his writing here underlined that ability.

Clarinda's Theme made effective use of clarinet, flute and soprano, alto and tenor saxophones set against muted trumpets, and the looser Faultless Monster, which also featured Temperley, combined a relatively simple and notably catchy idea with a muscularly direct horn arrangement.

The first of several items to feature Scots singers Karine Polwart, Corrina Hewat and Annie Grace found trumpeter Ryan Kisor tearing into a sequence based on C ome Ye Ower Fae France, and Sylvander's Theme really ignited as Kisor starred in a two-Ryans, two-trumpets sparring match with Ryan Quigley.