Music, Jazz within 5 miles of Edinburgh

Finger-style jazz guitar from MacFarlane and friends.

A consummate jazz singer swing, charm, crystal clear diction and effervescent good humour.

Dave Liebman is a musician's musician, a master improviser who's worked with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones but also a gifted teacher with great communicative power. Here he plays some of his own compositions and also standards from Porter, Ellington and Coltrane.

Sue McKenzie has been around the jazz and contemporary music scene in Scotland for some time, but never as a band leader until now. She’s the lady with the gloriously pure, rich saxophone sound – in Salsa Celtica and the Scottish Saxophone Quartet. Now she’s put together a band with a very special sound of its own…

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…

Jazz and funk with a Hendrix twist from guitarist Aki Remally and his four-piece band.

All female young Australian quintet play straight ahead swinging modern jazz.

Relaxed jazz session.

Continuing the carnival atmosphere – the twelve Italian brass, reeds and drums play party music from wild Balkan dances to traditional Mediterranean marches and Latino jazz. Uplifting.

From the boom of the 50’s and 60s to today, the undisputed kings of traditional jazz in Britain have been Ball, Barber and Bilk - the "Three Bs". Kenny Ball passed away earlier this year, but his son has stepped in to lead the band, and enabled us to present the classic three band concert one more time. Each band plays…

Trombonist and singer, Dave Batchelor, runs one of the most entertaining traditional jazz bands in Scotland. Classic dixieland jazz played with real verve and rhythmic punch by some of Scotland's finest jazz musicians: Colin Steele (trumpet), Hamish McGregor (saxes/clarinet). Fraser Spiers (harmonica), Alastair MacDonald…

Step back to the early 1920s, to the birth place of jazz: to the music of the bars and dance halls of New Orleans: Louis, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver. Swinging sounds delivered with real conviction, spirit and passion from this hugely popular Edinburgh group, led by banjoist, Bill Salmond, and tonight in an all star…

Rare Edinburgh show by the great jazz drummer and his classic swinging trio.

In co-operation with Leith Festival, this event features artists from the hugely successful Jock's Juke Joint series of CD's… featured artists include Eyes Nelson, Hot Tin Roof, Cynthia Gentle & the True Tones, Missing Cat & Lewis Hamilton.

The piano maestro has been back and forth to Copenhagen regularly in recent years, building a reputation for himself in one of Europe’s great jazz cities. Now he’s formed a band which features two great local residents – Daniel Franck (bass) and Niclas Camapgnol (drums). New musicians, but they play the powerful, swinging…

Explosive, creative jazz influenced by the likes of The Bad Plus, Duke Ellington and Bon Iver, from Glasgow bassist Brodie Jarvie and his new septet.

CD launch by charismatic singer with firepower quartet - Graeme Stephen (g), Paul Harrison (keys), Mario Caribe (b) and Stu Ritchie (d).

The charismatic New York singer and pianist is the talk of Manhattan. Still in her mid-20s she’s got the lived in voice that gives authority to all the classic show songs, and invites comparisons with everyone from Billlie Holiday to Carmen McRae, and she plays great piano. She’d have Errol Garner checking her out. No one…

A new super-group project for Mario Caribe - singing and playing double bass and guitar in a new Brazilian partnership with multi-instumentalist Gaio de Lima. Together with, Stuart Brown (drums and percussion) and David Milligan (piano) they play Brazilian and Scottish folk tunes. Light quick lines and great grooves merge…

Inspired by film noir, big-band jazz and the movies of David Lynch, City Noir is a spectacular symphonic showpiece by US composer John Adams that paints a gripping yet sensual portrait of California’s urban landscape and culture. It forms the culmination of the all-American second half of the Royal Scottish National…

Jazz was as cool as a Dry Martini when Brubeck and Desmond came to town in the 50’s. Darius Brubeck carries the Brubeck flame, playing hits like “Blue Rondo A La Turk” and “Take Five” with the great saxophonist, Brandon Allen in the Paul Desmond role. Brubeck’s set also features South African jazz, and his own originals.

Step back into a time when New Orleans and Chicago jazz was played in bars and rough joints and savour Petrie’s distinctive hot cornet and lived-in vocal style, with his road-tested, finely tuned four-piece band.

Updating jazz of the 20s and 30s, this band of hip 20-somethings are devoted to reviving interest in classic New Orleans music with respect and impeccable musicianship and a devotion to the songs of Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Even New Orleans enthusiast Woody Allen is a fan of their…

Student musicians showcase their work.