Tickets sales up 40% before the first concert and attractive poster art disappearing from accessible hoardings as fast as the promoter can put them up – this is a vintage year for the Glasgow Jazz Festival.
Before the Lord Provost's reception to launch the event in the City Halls' Candleriggs Bar, I was chatting to a weel-kent Edinburgh jazz fan who was good-naturedly bemused by the programme, which he saw as quite different from the mainstream music he knows and expects to hear at Edinburgh's event.
Please enable cookies in your browser to display the rest of this article.