INTERNATIONALLY-acclaimed Chinese writer and independent documentary film maker Xu Xing visits Scotland this week for the Edinburgh screenings of two of his films focusing on the decade-long Chinese Cultural Revolution that began 50 years ago this month. His autobiographical My Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution will be shown tomorrow and Criminal Records, gleaned from counter-revolutionary prisoners’ registration documents in 2011, on Friday. Both events are free and take place at the University of Edinburgh’s David Hume Tower in George Square at 5.30 pm as part of The Confucius Institute for Scotland’s 10th anniversary of culture, education and business links in Scotland.
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STILL Happy, a previously unreleased session by the late Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett, is the first album on a new label, My Only Desire Records, which launches this month. Beckett, who died in 2010 and enjoyed associations with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the winner of the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year award, Bill Wells, moved to London in the 1950s and played with a veritable who’s who of the British jazz scene including saxophonist Don Weller, who appears on Still Happy, which was originally recorded for the BBC Radio 2 show Jazz Club. The album is available on limited edition vinyl and digital formats.
myonlydesirerecords.com
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