Tommy Smith/ Maria Rud: Luminescence(St Giles’ Cathedral High St, Edinburgh. 17 August 2023. First Night of three. Photo-essay by Rob Adams (*) Luminescence is a collaboration between the visual artist Maria Rud […]
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. (Various venues in Edinburgh, 14-23 July 2023. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival put on over 110 concerts across ten days, requiring […]
Gwilym Simcock and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Release (Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 27 April 2023 – Live review by Mark McKergow) Pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock arrives in Scotland with an […]
Tickets go on public sale tomorrow (4 April) for the Jazz Weekend at the Buxton International Festival 2023 (6-10 July). Gabriel Taylor looks forward: BAND LINE-UP FOR WYNTON MARSALISThe line-up has been […]
Maria Rud & Tommy Smith (St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. 18 November 2022. Live review by Mark McKergow) This extraordinary performance saw two masters of their art combining in a breath-taking improvised creation […]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra have announced a new season of concerts that will see the internationally acclaimed ensemble spanning 100 years of jazz history. Presenting music from their “In the Spirit […]
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark…myths…legends… These are the mysterious places to which SNJO’s new project, also involving Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, actor Blythe Duff and a selection of Scottish traditional musicians, wants […]
Kurt Elling and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra are back together with a new collaboration – they are building an Apparition Bridge. Rob Adams reports: Works by the late Esbjorn Svennson, Danish bassist […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Where Rivers Meet (Digital download review by Mark McKergow) The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its energetic leader Tommy Smith have produced a dazzling variety of work […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra – Live At 25 (The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. 24 September 2021. Live Review by Patrick Hadfield) Tommy Smith has clearly been counting the days since the SNJO last […]
SNJO will finally return to giving live concerts with audiences after an 18-month hiatus with a 25th anniversary celebration on Friday 24 September in Edinburgh. Preview by Rob Adams: Mack Gordon and […]
Saxophonist Matt Carmichael, aged 22, and graduating from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this summer, has been winning a host of awards. It is also announced from Cologne that Bob Mintzer will […]
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Maria Rud – Where Rivers Meet: The Music of Dewey Redman and Albert Ayler (Recorded at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh on 30 April 2021. Streaming until August […]
The visionary musical ideas of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton meet the spontaneous creativity of the Edinburgh-based Russian artist Maria Rud in one of the architectural gems of […]
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra has released a video of a Robert Burns song to mark the band’s absence from its habitual gig at Ronnie Scott’s on the birthday of Scotland’s national […]
