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Kind of Blue - Colin Steele Quintet

Kind of Blue - Colin Steele Quintet

6 Aug 2009

The year 1959 was something of a landmark in the annals of modern jazz, and yielded a number of classic jazz recordings, including Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, Charles Mingus’s Ah Um! and John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. Pre-eminent among them, though, is the…

Ryan Quigley - Laphroaig-ian Slip

Ryan Quigley - Laphroaig-ian Slip

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

Ryan Quigley is a familiar figure on the Scottish jazz scene, not least through his long tenure in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. The trumpeter’s love of the classic hard bop and post-bop styles of the 50s and 60s is always apparent in this…

Valery Ponomarev Quintet

Valery Ponomarev Quintet

Carrying the jazz message

7 Aug 2008

Reminders of the legacy of the great Art Blakey and the hard bop academy that was his Jazz Messengers show no signs of abating. Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson headlined a show at the Glasgow Jazz Festival last month, his first in Scotland since 1994, and…

Nils Petter Molvaer - Re-Vision

Nils Petter Molvaer - Re-Vision

(3 stars)5 Jun 2008

JAZZ (Emarcy) Trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer first made his mark round these parts with the excellent jazz quintet Masqualero in the late 1980s, but became better known as one of the prime begetters of the Norwegian Nu-Jazz phenomenon with the release…

Stefano Bollani

Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani

24 Apr 2008

JAZZ Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Tue 29 Apr With Assembly Direct planning no new activity at The Lot until after the Edinburgh Festival (a direct result of last year’s changes to the Scottish Arts Council’s distribution of jazz funding, although…

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