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Patsy Reid - Bridging The Gap

Patsy Reid - Bridging The Gap

(4 stars)22 Jan 2009

FOLK Fiddler Patsy Reid's contribution to last year's New Voices series at Celtic Connections allowed her to exercise both her expertise in traditional music and her classical training in a suite designed to bring those poles together. It is…

Béla Fleck

Celtic Connections - Béla Fleck

8 Jan 2009

What’s in a name? In the case of Celtic Connections, not much, or at least, nothing too literal. Anyone who insisted on the strict application of the name would have found themselves left well behind almost from the launch of the festival back in 1994.

Hallaig - A Celebration of Sorley MacLean

Hallaig - A Celebration of Sorley MacLean

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC CONNECTIONS A gathering of Gaelic musical talent will celebrate the work of Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) in this concert, which will feature both vocal settings of the poet’s work and instrumental pieces inspired by it. The show…

David Heath

Conflict and Resolution

8 Jan 2009

CELTIC CONNECTIONS The life of Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh will be celebrated in unusual fashion in this concert featuring a specially commissioned new work for musicians from Scotland and Catalonia, with the BBC…

Johnny Griffin - Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Johnny Griffin - Live at Ronnie Scott’s

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

JAZZ This live recording from the Soho club last May proved to be the swansong for the hard-hitting American tenor man, and if the octogenarian was no longer at his peak, he more than holds his own in some very fast company, including American…

The Shee - A Different Season

The Shee - A Different Season

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

FOLK The Shee have been attracting favourable comment for a while on the live circuit now, and this impressive debut album bears out the growing reputation the six-piece all-women band have accrued. Harpist Rachel Newton, fiddler Olivia Ross and…

Issie Barrett - Astral Pleasures

Issie Barrett - Astral Pleasures

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

JAZZ Issie Barrett’s debut recording directing a 20-piece orchestra is brimming over with arresting music. A composer and conductor pushing at the boundaries of conventional big band music, Barrett has a considerable reputation in jazz education…

Julian Siegel Trio - Live at the Vortex

Julian Siegel Trio - Live at the Vortex

(4 stars)8 Jan 2009

JAZZ Named Best Instrumentalist at the BBC UK Jazz Awards in 2007, saxophonist Julian Siegel is joined by New York-based musicians Greg Cohen (bass) and Joey Baron (drums) on this tough but exciting two-CD set, recorded at London’s Vortex in early…

Lorna Reid - Gypsy in My Soul

Lorna Reid - Gypsy in My Soul

(3 stars)11 Dec 2008

JAZZ Jazz singers are not in short supply these days, and there is plenty of competition in the kind of straight-ahead standard repertoire that Edinburgh singer Lorna Reid tackles in this self-produced debut release on her own label. I can’t say that…

Aidan O'Rourke - An Tobar

Aidan O'Rourke - An Tobar

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

FOLK The music on this excellent disc was commissioned and first performed by An Tobar Arts Centre on Mull, and is characteristic of the fiddler’s lyrical synthesis of traditional folk roots with a much more contemporary and exploratory musical…

Doorley/Fowlis/Martin/Nic Amhlaoibh - Dual

Doorley/Fowlis/Martin/Nic Amhlaoibh - Dual

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

FOLK Julie Fowlis has been the most prominent success among the new generation of Gaelic singers, and her award-winning exploits have done much to help raise the profile of Gaelic song. On this session, though, she takes equal billing with her…

Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema

Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema

(4 stars)11 Dec 2008

JAZZ The Seattle-born, New York-based pianist’s debut for Blue Note is an impressive one. Jazz piano is a currently crowded field, but Parks makes his mark in convincing fashion. All but three of the tracks also feature the guitar work of Mike…

Andersen, Smith, Vinaccia

Andersen, Smith, Vinaccia

27 Nov 2008

JAZZ Norwegian bass maestro Arild Andersen teams up with our own Tommy Smith and Italian drummer Paulo Vinaccia in a superbly creative trio that has its immediate origins in the rather unlikely location of Islay. Andersen was invited to write some…

Brian Kellock - The Nine Mile Burn Sessions

Brian Kellock - The Nine Mile Burn Sessions

(4 stars)27 Nov 2008

JAZZ It has been too a long a wait for a follow up to pianist Brian Kellock’s award-winning Live At Henry’s set. This album is an excellent launch for a potentially significant new recording project from Cathie Rae’s Thick Skinned Productions, and…

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate - 75th

Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate - 75th

(3 stars)13 Nov 2008

JAZZ JOE ZAWINUL & THE ZAWINUL SYNDICATE 75th (BHM/Birdjam) The concert represented on this live 2-CD set was recorded on the late Joe Zawinul’s 75th birthday on 7 July 2007 in his native Vienna (he died only a couple of months later). Despite the…

Portico Quartet

Portico Quartet

13 Nov 2008

The Arches, Glasgow, Mon 24 Nov The Portico Quartet’s debut album Knee Deep in the North Sea was attracting considerable attention even before it was included among this year’s Mercury Prize nominations, including a prestigious award as Time Out’s…

Corrina Hewat - Harp I Do

Corrina Hewat - Harp I Do

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

Corrina Hewat forsakes the chumminess of the various groups in which she is involved – including co-directing the might Unusual Suspects – for the more isolated terrain of solo harp. As the title says, harp she does, and very well too. She approaches…

The Bad Plus - For All I Care

The Bad Plus - For All I Care

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

The Bad Plus continue to push at the boundaries of what might constitute a jazz repertoire – and a jazz style of playing it – in the 21st century. This time round the tunes include Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’, an electrifying version of Pink Floyd’s…

Martin Kershaw

Martin Kershaw

30 Oct 2008

A visit to the Eduardo Paolozzi retrospective at the Dean Gallery four years ago was the starting point for alto saxophonist Martin Kershaw’s ambitious new Hero as a Riddle project. A Scottish Art Council New Music Award has finally allowed Kershaw…

Robert Mitchell 3i0 - The Greater Good

Robert Mitchell 3i0 - The Greater Good

(3 stars)30 Oct 2008

Pianist Robert Mitchell resisted entering the crowded field of piano trios for a while, preferring to concentrate on his larger Panacea groups, but the 3io (the name apparently is how they refer to the group in text messages) with Tom Mason and Richard…

John Goldie - Open 4 Closure

John Goldie - Open 4 Closure

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

Guitarist John Goldie’s latest offering eludes easy genre classification. He is probably best know for his jazz work, but is equally comfortable in a range of styles, and this disc is touched by various shades of jazz, folk, rock and funk without…

Sarah-Jane Summers - Nesta

Sarah-Jane Summers - Nesta

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

The Norwegian Hardanger fiddle is one of the most distinctive sounding members of the violin family, and invests the Inverness fiddler’s debut solo album with a very characteristic signature, one that will be familiar to anyone who knows her work with…

Bobo Stenson Trio - Cantando

Bobo Stenson Trio - Cantando

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson leads this superb trio with bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Fält in a concert in Edinburgh this month, and their new disc suggests that it will be a must-see occasion. This is the first time that the pianist has…

Bobo Stenson Trio

5 Reasons To Go See - Bobo Stenson Trio

16 Oct 2008

1 Bobo is a European jazz great The Swedish pianist stands squarely alongside any of the major names in world jazz that he has worked with over the years, including the likes of Jan Garbarek, Tomasz Stanko and Charles Lloyd. 2 Live performance…

Norma Winstone

Norma Winstone

16 Oct 2008

JAZZ Singer Norma Winstone’s first disc for ECM in a decade appeared back in March, with Klaus Gesing on bass clarinet and soprano saxophone and Glauco Venier on trumpet. The trio format and piano-plus-horn instrumentation echoed the halcyon days of…

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