Music, Blues, "Edinburgh"

Scotland's biggest jazz festival presents over 100 concerts in ten days all over the capital, in parks, churches, clubs and concert halls. With a programme featuring all jazz styles from early jazz to the avant garde, the EJ&BF usually manages to secure some world premières, new bands, and new collaborations.

Hard bop and lesser-known standards from the accomplished five-piece.

The top Scottish blues band are back in the Spiegel Tent for a hard driving, good time blues and boogie night. Over the years, they have played alongside Robert Cray, Pinetop Perkins, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, and famously with Maggie Bell last year, but its their own Chicago blues inspired sound…

The hippest singer in town bebop, ballads, blues, all spun afresh in a net of warmth and pleasure.

Guitar hero and his great band play high-octane blues-rock. Always a storming live performance.

The celebrated film and TV actor takes his blues band out on tour and showcases his piano-playing skills with cohorts the Copper Bottom Band.

Driving blues inspired by 50s and 60s American classics.

The electric blues powerhouse band is fronted by the charismatic harmonica and vocals of Gary Martin and check out the great Alan Brown on guitar.

The climax of this year’s Jazz and Blues Festival is a return by popular demand of the undisputed King of rhythm’n’blues and boogie-woogie, Jools Holland, and his fantastic Big Band The pianist and bandleader, leads a band packed with great musicians ­ one of the hottest and most exciting Big Bands you can hear anywhere.

Accomplished jazz, with Lachlan on guitar and Kenny on double bass.

Alt.rock, Americana and blues from Lucinda Williams.

One of the UK’s finest harmonica players and singers delivers a red-hot blues finale.

Electric blues band with a wide range of R’n’B and funk influences.

One of the few remaining one-man blues outfits in Scotland, playing electric and acoustic guitar, mouth harp, drums and mouth percussion.

Jazzy, rootsy blues singer from lazy and mellow to infectious rock and boogie.

Grossman studied fingerstyle blues with the originals – Rev Gary Davis, Mississipi Fred McDowell and Son House, and in the 60s he brought his guitar to Britain influencing and playing with a range of musicians from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn to Eric Clapton. He’s a master of a range of styles - ragtime guitar, country…

The band that sets the standard for modern, bluesy Cajun music. From the bayous of South Louisiana, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, enjoy the revelry of a hot two-step, then turn on a dime and deliver an a cappella ballad, then play something that sounds like Howlin’ Wolf fell in lust with a Creole girl. This is the…

Terry Bean is the real Delta blues deal. From Mississippi, he picked cotton when he was young, and learned the blues from his father; he plays guitar and foreceful harmonica and sings with a powerful and plaintively soulful tone.  Leading Scottish blues guitarist, John Bruce rekindles his Allman Brothers set. Jo Harman is…

Free-spirited San Francisco group playing a musical gumbo of soul, blues, gospel, second line New Orleans Jazz, and early R&B and always creating an infectious feel-good mood. When you make you’re living busking in the street you know how to make an impact instantly, and this fun-loving band know how to do that - they…

Right out of rural Indiana comes The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. This fingerpickin', scrubboard scratchin', drum-bucket country blues trio conjure up such greats as Son House and Charley Patton. They apply great musicianship to direct and powerful blues with great songwriting, and a killer live show. They’ve had…

Festival debut for super-charged American saxophone star with her big swinging, bop–based, all female band. A young lion on the New York jazz scene, a long time member of Beyoncé’s band, and now musical director with Esperanza Spalding. Fuller’s band play some of the most exciting music on the current US scene, packed…

A different selection of five leading jazz players come together for each session with no rehearsal.