This is clearly shaping up to be the year of the tribute concert or band at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival. We've had a Jelly Roll Morton extravaganza, a Thelonious Monk session and still to come are a Louis'n'Ella night and bands that pay homage to the Benny Goodman Quartet and Wild Bill Davison.

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This is clearly shaping up to be the year of the tribute concert or band at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival. We've had a Jelly Roll Morton extravaganza, a Thelonious Monk session and still to come are a Louis'n'Ella night and bands that pay homage to the Benny Goodman Quartet and Wild Bill Davison. On Monday evening, it was the turn of jazz pioneer Joe "King" Oliver to be celebrated with a concert of his compositions and others which he recorded.

If the line-up of the Oliver tribute looked familiar, that's because the musicians involved have, this week, already doffed their collective caps at various masters of early jazz. For this concert, banjoist John Gill was in charge of proceedings while his Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra leader, the clarinettist Orange Kellin, was a member of the rather uneven front line alongside trumpeters Jon-Erik Kellso and Chris Tyle, trombonist Brad Shigeta and pianist Martin Litton.

As with the Saturday night performance by the Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra, the band was working from arrangements, and there seemed to be little room for manoeuvre - so it was yet another frustrating experience for anyone hoping to hear much from Kellso. That said, he and Tyle did a great job in the roles of King Oliver and his better-remembered protege, Louis Armstrong.

Gill himself proved to be a charismatic host, who struck the right balance between informing the audience about the background of the numbers being played and keeping everyone entertained. So there was no danger of anyone feeling as though they were attending a history lecture; something which can often happen when an enthusiast is let loose with a microphone.