Various Artists
Live at the Jazz Bar 10th Anniversary
Chambers St Collective
WE have documented the story every step of the way in The Herald, but the fact that Edinburgh's Jazz Bar made its tenth birthday last year was more than worth marking with a double disc of music by its local ensembles. Herald Archangel winner Bill Kyle's creation of one of the Fringe's busiest venues, and a year-round home for jazz, blues and funk, from the ashes of the short-lived Bridge Jazz Bar around the corner would also make a fine movie.
Although the Chamber Street basement also welcomes international artists on tour, these 23 tracks document a week of home-grown birthday celebrations, captured with the help of students at Napier University. In an elaborate exercise that has inevitably taken some time, the musicians were given final pick of the single track to represent their work from seven nights of live sessions that involved the team working from 6pm to 3pm. The range is remarkable, pianists Chick Lyall and Fergus McCreadie representing different generations on the jazz disc, for example, and guitarist Aki Remally winning the ubiquity award for his appearances with multiple outfits as both sideman and leader on its companion.
Compelling evidence that music in Scotland is both fun and in fine fettle.
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