The 2010 Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival | July 30th – Aug. 8th

Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival 2010

Edinburgh Castle
dominates the city-centre skyline and from its ramparts you can look
down on medieval lanes and elegant, sweeping terraces that hold over a
thousand years of history, mystery and tradition.

Yet you will
also see a modern, dynamic capital where international festivals attract
the world’s leading performers, galleries display cutting-edge art, and
bars, restaurants and clubs create a lively, cosmopolitan atmosphere
with a distinctly Scottish twist.

Edinburgh Jazz and Blues
Festival takes place July 30th through August 8th.

Roger Spence
(Producer) enthuses about Laura Macdonald and Martina Almgren’s Oh Yeah
Orchestra, which also featues the amazing Staffan Svensson (trumpet),
Karin Burman (vocals) and Joakim Milder (saxophone)–he describes it as:
“feminine, bubbly jazz.”

Toby Shippey and Joe Malik recreate the
Lizzard Lounge the seminal club that was held in the basement of Cafe
Graffitti -why not dance the night away in the company of Fred Wesley,
Ty, The Rumba Caliente Afro Latin Soul Orchestra and with hosts Joe
Mail, Simon Hodge and Jim Bathgate.

Canned Heat play their first
Scottish date in fifteen years. They shot to fame headlining the
orginial Woodstock Festival and are best known for their two hits: “On
The Road Again” and “Going Up The Country”–check them out in the
intimate surrounds of the Queen’s Hal.

Tickets are going quicky
for cover star, China Moses with her impeccable Dinah Washington
tribute.

This year we also celebrate 60 years of Edinburgh Jazz
offer
creative excitement across all jazz styles with the Scottish Jazz Expo
pay
homage to the memory of Django Reinhardt
salute the new French Jazz

feature the marvellous Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra launch a
unique flashmob street event: Clandemonium
present young names
destined to be future stars in the Breaking Ground series.

Here
is the full programme of events for the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues
Festival 2010.

Friday 30 July

Capital Jazz
A spotlight
on Edinburgh talent. A small exhibition about Edinburgh’s Jazz history
containing some of the many items donated to Edinburgh City Libraries as
part of the Edinburgh Jazz Archive. VenueCentral Library 10:00 FREE

Daniel
Erdmann and Francis Le Bras + Phil Bancroft and Jorrit Dijkstra
The
French pianist is steeped in the traditions of Bill Evans and Keith
Jarrett, while his German saxophone partner is one of the most dynamic
young players on the edgy German contemporary jazz scene. VenueThe Lot
14+18:00 £10.00

Fat Sams Band
High energy, toe-tapping,
finger-snapping music in the vein of Louis Jordan, Louis Prima or Basie.
The nine-piece band is a throwback to the jump and swing bands of the
30s and 40s and they have their VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens
20:00 £15:00

Alvin Youngblood Hart
The Memphis guitarist and
vocalist is one of the world’s leading new blues powers. Hard rockin’
electric blues, southern boogie, country blues, with a deep soulful
voice and formidable guitar play VenueThe Jamhouse 18+20:00 £12.00

Rae
Bros
George Lewis and Bunk Johnson are the inspirations for one of
England’s finest exponents of classic New Orleans jazz. VenueHeriots
Rugby Club 14+20:00 £9.00

Freddie King
Edinburgh’s hipster
male singer is constantly traveling the globe, with his dark chocolate
baritone gracing night clubs and jazz bars wherever he goes. Bebop,
ballads, and blues are his trade, and war VenueThe Hub 20:30 £12:50

Kevin
MacKenzie Vital Signs
One of the most exciting amalgams of jazz and
folk ever produced, this nine-piece blends jazz harmonies with folk
rhythms and melodies. “The breadth of skills at guitarist MacKenzie’s
fingertips, hone VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30 £10.00

Salsa Celtica
Big Band
Cuban and Latin American salsa meets traditional Scottish
and Irish music. Salsa Celtica take time off from headlining a string of
high profile European Festivals, to celebrate their 15th anniversary
VenueThe Queens Hall 20:30 £16:00

John Burgess
The Edinburgh
tenor saxophonist has traveled the world building reputations in North
America and Europe for his big rounded sound; his tough, punchy delivery
and warm-hearted musical personality. Toni VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10:00

Lizzard lounge 2010
Featuring: Fred Wesley and the new
JB’s, Ty and Joe Malik Live, The Rumba Caliente Afro Latin Soul
Orchestra. Hosts: Joe Malik, Toby Shippey, Simon Hodge, Jim Bathgate A
one-off celebration of Edin VenueHMV Picture House 18+22:30 £15:00

Jam
Session
After hours blow in classic basement jazz club–you might
hear the stars of the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of
the future. VenueThe Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5:00

Saturday 31 July

Scotsman
Talks: Edinburgh Jazz Traditions: The 1950’s onwards
John Burgess
hosts a panel of musicians and experts to discuss what really happened
in the explosion of Jazz in Edinburgh in the 50’s and why traditional
jazz in Edinburgh was so good. With Mike Har VenueThe Hub 11:00 £5:00

Clandemonium

The world premiere of a unique Scottish jazz flashmob street event.
Drummer, Tom Bancroft has created an exciting opportunity for everyone
to be part of the festival, even if you have no musical exper VenueWest
Parliament Square 10+11:30 FREE

Mardi Gras & Parade
The
Parade leaves City Chambers in the High Street at 12.45pm, and heads to
the Mardi Gras. A vibrant splash of colour and exuberant music as the
New Orleans party atmosphere comes to Edinburgh. This VenueGrassmarket
13:00 FREE

Jon Cleary
One of the greats of the current New
Orleans scene, blues-man, piano-man, and living history man, Jon Cleary
knocked us out at the 2007 Festival. Now he’s back. Down and dirty New
Orleans funk, as b VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 18:00 £15:00

Ruaridh
Pattison Quartet
Not yet 18, and currently studying at Edinburgh’s
Broughton School, Pattison is a very hot young saxophonist, playing
music by Dave Holland, standards, originals in a two tenor band with Joe
Wr VenueThe Lot 14+18:00 £5:00

Old Baileys Jazz Advocates +
Climax Reunion Band
The Climax Jazz Band came straight out of the
original Edinburgh trad boom of the late 50’s and ‘s with a raw New
Orleans energy at their heart. Mike Hart and Jim Petrie have re-created
the band f VenueThe Jamhouse 18+19:30 £15:00

Samuel Hallkvist
Jazz
for the information age. Guitarist Hällkvist’s eclectic roots in
ragtime, country, metal, noise and early digital electronics, inform
music that’s half weird guitar music, half the future of j VenueVoodoo
Rooms 18+20:30 £10

Canned Heat Woodstock Reunited Band
For
the first time in ten years, the legendary blues-rock-boogie band who
headlined the original Woodstock Festival are back playing in the UK,
with three of the original 1969 band members: Fito de la VenueThe Queens
Hall 20:30 £32.50, 28.50

China Moses
She’s got a voice that
cuts, soulful and strong, and she’s got blues, powerful swing and a
high voltage personality: China Moses is a genuine exciting new vocal
discovery. Originally a soul-diva, VenueThe Hub 20:30 £15:00

Fred
Wesley
The Godfather of Funk and Soul, musical director of the
James Brown Band in its heyday, partner of Maceo Parker and trombonist
of distinction, Fred is Mr Funky. No-one does it better. He always
delive VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 21:00 £15:00

Martin
Kershaw
Catchy, appealing melodies; inspired solos: Kershaw’s alto
saxophone quests for beauty in music which draws on both the American
and European traditions. With Tom Gibbs (piano), Euan Burton (bass),
VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10:00

Jam Session
After hours blow in
classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of the Festival or
a cutting contest between the names of the future. VenueThe Jazz Bar
18+23:00 £5:00

Capital Jazz
A spotlight on Edinburgh talent.
A small exhibition about Edinburgh’s Jazz history containing some of
the many items donated to Edinburgh City Libraries as part of the
Edinburgh Jazz Archive. VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 9:00 FREE

Sunday
1 August

Jazz Al Fresco
A relaxed, informal afternoon of
jazz in the historic surrounds of the Grassmarket. Three stages will
feature a range of easy listening jazz and blues of all styles. The
programme includes Edinburgh S VenueGrassmarket 13:00 FREE

Scotsman
Talks: What Makes Django Special?
John Russell hosts a conversation
with Mark Gilbert (Editor, Jazz Journal), Martin Taylor and Fapy
Lafertin, discussing the unique qualities and extraordinary legacy of
the innovative guitarist VenueThe Hub 14:30 £5:00

Swing 2010 and
Fapy Lafertin
Celebrating 30 years as Scotland’s leading Django
inspired band, Swing 2010 played with the great gypsy guitarist, Fapy
Lafertin, in their very early years and know well that his fiery
technique and s VenueThe Hub 16:00 £12:50

Gospel Concert With
Melba Joyce
A special charity concert in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust
featuring the powerful voice of Harlem’s Melba Joyce. One of New York’s
top jazz singers, she grew up with gospel music and tonight she sings
VenueSt Cuthberts Church 18:00 FREE

Ken Mathieson Classic Jazz
Orchestra & Duke Heitger play Louis Armstrong
Ken Mathieson’s
Band features the cream of Scottish classic jazz talent, and long time
collaborator, the effervescent New Orleans trumpeter, Duke Heitger,
taking time out from his day job leading the VenueThe Jamhouse 18+20:00
£12.50

Tam White Sermon Orchestra
With a heavy heart we hear
that Tam White died on Monday 21st June. He was a major figure in
Scottish music and an irreplaceable friend and inspiration. Our thoughts
are with his family and musical co VenueThe Queens Hall 20:00 £20:00,
15:00

Laura Macdonald and Martina Almgren Oh Yeah!
Two of
Europe’s leading female jazz instrumentalists, the Scottish saxophonist
and the Swedish drummer front a group which sparkles with upbeat grooves
and bright melodies. Almgren’s tunes are founded VenueThe Hub 20:00
£12:50

Lancombe Lucien + Jazz Hot
A film by Louis Malle plus
some rare footage of Django. VenueFilmhouse 20:30 £8

Todd
Gordon sings Sinatra
With Ryan Quigley Big Band Paying homage to the
wonderful Sinatra recordings with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie
Orchestras, Todd Gordon offers his interpretations of ever-popular songs
like “I VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 20:30 £17:50

Melting
Pot
Colin Steele’s Soul-Jazz-Funk band play infectious grooves that
take you back to sweaty basement clubs and hot dance floors. It’s a ‘s
soul-jazz vibe with funky bass and blues grooves, underpinn VenueVoodoo
Rooms 18+20:30 £10.00

Frank Perowsky Quartet
Swing to bop,
the New York tenor sax and flautist has a top flight pedigree, he’s
played with Woody Herman, Billy Eckstine, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band,
and Buddy Rich, and has been MD for Liza VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10.00

The
Bays + Hidden Orchestra
Featuring: Su a Lee + Asthmatic Astronaut /
Astroboy Club night headlined by The Bays, one of the UK’s most talked
about live acts: deep house and techno, hip hop, electro and drum n bass
layered VenueThe Caves 18+21:00 £12.50

Jam Session
After
hours blow in classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of
the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the future.
VenueThe Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5

Monday 2 August

Capital
Jazz
A spotlight on Edinburgh talent. A small exhibition about
Edinburgh’s Jazz history containing some of the many items donated to
Edinburgh City Libraries as part of the Edinburgh Jazz Archive.
VenueCentral Library 10:00 FREE

Havana Swing
Classic swing
jazz of the 30’s and 40’s–as the traditions of European gypsy swing
collide with the sophisticated jazz of musicians like Duke Ellington–is
the repertoire of this terrific five-p VenueRoyal Overseas League 12:30
£8.00

Joe Temperley
Joe Temperley talks about life, music,
saxophones, Humphrey Lyttelton, improvising, Ellington, New York… and
Cowdenbeath FC, and plays duets with Brian Kellock.
VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 18:00 £10.00

Siobhan Duncan

Hailing from Lewis, trumpeter, Siobhan Duncan plays bright engaging
modern jazz with power and poise. Set to be a major new voice in
Scottish jazz. VenueThe Lot 14+18:00 £5.00

Melba Joyce, with
special guest Duke Heitger
From Harlem with a flair for soul, a
passion for the blues, an instinctive swinging delivery that packs a
might punch, a bubbling personality, a big presence. These are some of
the distinguishing feat VenueThe Jamhouse 18+20:00 £12.50

Peter
Green and Friends
Support artist: Mud In Your Ear ‘He has the
sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold
sweats’–that’s what BB King had to say about Fleetwood Mac’s founder,
former membe VenueHMV Picture House 14+20:00 £20.00

Orchestre
National de Jazz
Singers: Karen Lano & Ian Siegal, Musical
Director: Daniel Yvinec Keeping intact the marvellous contours of the
original melodies, The French National Jazz Institution, ONJ will
perform a selectio VenueThe Hub 20:00 £15.00

Martin Taylor Plus
Fapy Lafertin
Taylor takes the light, swinging, but intensely
exciting feel of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France, to inspire
a new incarnation of his band. It’s a fabulous vehicle for the
breathtaking v VenueThe Queens Hall 20:00 £22.50, 17.50

Acker
Bilk with his Paramount Jazz Band Acker is one of the hottest clarinet
players and one of the most popular names there has ever been in British
jazz. A strong, imaginative, passionate musician, he keeps his band
fresh and exciting. Re VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 20:30 £18.00

Brian Auger’s
An evening of killer groove Hammond organ
virtuosity, a rhythmical firework combining jazz, early British pop,
R&B, soul and rock. Few luminaries from the ‘s have left a deeper
mark on music history VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30 £18.00

Eric
Alexander
Nobody epitomises the tough tenor saxophonist of the Blue
Note tradition better than Alexander. He’s a giant of the current New
York scene, rooted in the deep traditions of great US tenor players, f
VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £16.00

Jam Session
After hours blow in
classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of the Festival or
a cutting contest between the names of the future.
VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 18+23:00 £5.00

Tuesday 3
August

Capital Jazz
A spotlight on Edinburgh talent. A small
exhibition about Edinburgh’s Jazz history containing some of the many
items donated to Edinburgh City Libraries as part of the Edinburgh Jazz
Archive. VenueCentral Library 10:00 FREE

Nova Scotia Jazz Band
Mike
Daly (cornet), John Burgess (reeds), Roy Percy (bass), and Duncan
Findlay (banjo) play classic jazz of the 1920’s and 30’s, in the
tradition of Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke a
VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 12:30 £8.00

Malcolm
MacFarlane Octet with McFalls
MacFarlane’s guitar playing has been a
feature of all kinds of bands–from Jamie Cullum to leading the
Scottish Guitar Quartet. Now, the Scottish Jazz award winner launches an
eight piece band th VenueThe Hub 18:00 £10.00

Louisiana Ragtime
Band/Spirits of Rhythm
A double helping of early New Orleans music
from the two Edinburgh bands who have kept the Classic 20’s Jazz alive
in Edinburgh for over four decades. Both bands will feature special
guests as they VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 18+20:00 £10.00

Mario
Caribe Quintet featuring David Berkman
The sunny warmth of Mario’s
music meets the intrepid pianism of David Berkman and together they
generate serious heat. Rolling rhythms, infectious and edgy tunes, the
music bristles with good-vibes an VenueThe Jazz Bar 14+20:00 £10.00

Tim
Elliott/Sandy Tweeddale Band
Blues N’Trouble singer/harmonica man
and guitarist have put together a special band to play the music of
50’s/’s Blues Greats, Sonny Boy Williams and Jimmy Reed. This is Blues
before rock n’ro VenueMinto Hotel 20:00 £10.00

Festival Of Swing

Featuring: Bob Wilber, Joe Temperley, Scott Hamilton, Alan Barnes,
Howard Alden, Duke Heitger The Festival has invited nine of the world’s
leading exponents of Swinging Jazz to come together and VenueThe Queens
Hall 20:00 £22.50, 17.50

Niki King
King’s smoky, bluesy
voice is the perfect vehicle to interpret the songs made famous by the
most emotive of jazz singers: Billie Holiday. King rekindles Holiday’s
emotional openness that communicates VenueThe Hub 20:30 £15.00

Emile
Parisien
Winners of countless accolades for their telepathic under
and almost cinematic compositions, the saxophonist’s group has drawn
comparisons with Wayne Shorter’s Bands. “Parisien, a theatrical per
VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30 £10.00

Eric Alexander
Nobody
epitomises the tough tenor saxophonist of the Blue Note tradition better
than Alexander. He’s a giant of the current New York scene, rooted in
the deep traditions of great US tenor players, f VenueThe Lot 14+21:00
£16.00

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
The 10 strong funky Brass
Band from Chicago exploded on the UK music scene via sure on Jools
Holland’s Later. Now, with a Choice Cuts recording and headline shows
planned at Festivals throughout Eur VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens
21:00 £15.00

Jam Session
After hours blow in classic
basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of the Festival or a
cutting contest between the names of the future. VenueThe Jazz Bar
18+23:00 £5

Wednesday 4 August

Capital Jazz
A
spotlight on Edinburgh talent. A small exhibition about Edinburgh’s Jazz
history containing some of the many items donated to Edinburgh City
Libraries as part of the Edinburgh Jazz Archive. VenueCentral Library
10:00 FREE

Joe Gordon’s Ragtime Banjos
A Festival
institution now, and consistently a sell out. The veteran White Heather
Club singer and banjo player loves traditional jazz, and plays rags,
stomps, blues and swing tunes with great enterta VenueRoyal Overseas
League 12:30 £8.00

Andrew Robb Quartet
The young award
winning Edinburgh bassist is already making a big noise for himself on
the London jazz scene. Assured, swinging, and promising to be a
bandleader of great import. Here he is with a spe VenueThe Lot 14+18:00
£5.00

Tommy Smith KARMA
A new direction for the leading
saxophonist, with a brand new band and new music focusing on the
reactions of his Group. Expect sudden shifts in direction, atmospheric
folklore textures, and virtuosic VenueThe Hub 18:00 £12.50

An
Evening with Peter Vetesse
One of Scotland’s leading international
musicians. In the late 70’s the pianist was a young star of the
Edinburgh Jazz scene. He answered an ad for a keyboard player and found
himself a member of VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 18:00 £10.00

Edinburgh
Jazz Festival Orchestra: Swinging for Basie
Director: Joe
Temperley, With Brian Kellock, and special guest, Dennis Rowland An
all-star cast recreate the joyous music of Count Basie Featuring
arrangements by Quincy Jones, Neal Hefti and Buck VenueThe Queens Hall
20:00 £21.50, 16.50

Sandy Brown Group + Mike Hart
One man
was responsible for world class Edinburgh Jazz: Sandy Brown. Tonight we
salute the genius of the clarinetist and remind ourselves of his long
time Edinburgh colleague, trumpeter, Al Fairweathe VenueThe Jamhouse
18+20:00 £15+

TJ Johnson
One of the finest vocalists and
r’n’b piano players on the jazz scene today. A truly tremendous voice
with enormous power combining with rollicking horns and rhythms to
create a blend of jazz, blues, VenueMinto Hotel 20:00 £12.00

Anthony
Joseph and the Spasm Band
Voodoo punk set somewhere between Sun Ra,
Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets, Joseph is a leading teacher, poet,
novelist and rapper and his poetic chanted word sits over a solid funk
groove, guided b VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30 £16.00

Les Doigts De
L’Homme
Back by popular demand after their smash, sell-out show in
2009. Les Doigts merge their Django roots with rock sensibilities
delivering swing and fiery guitar solos with fabulous technique and
musicia VenueThe Hub 20:30 £15.00

Konrad Wiszniewski and
Baptiste Trotignon Trio
Trotignon is one of the world’s most
exciting young jazz pianists. His touch is Ravel and Debussy; his drive
is out of Herbie Hancock, and his music is at the forefront of the new
wave of jazz, alon VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens 20:30 £10.00

Paul
Harrison Threeform
A new acoustic group formed by pianist Paul
Harrison, bassist Euan Burton and drummer Doug Hough. Simultaneously
they embrace the history of the classic piano trio while exploring and
inventing new di VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10.00

Jam Session
After
hours blow in classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of
the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the future.
VenueThe Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5.00

Thursday 5 August

Capital
Jazz
A spotlight on Edinburgh talent. A small exhibition about
Edinburgh’s Jazz history containing some of the many items donated to
Edinburgh City Libraries as part of the Edinburgh Jazz Archive.
VenueCentral Library 10:00 FREE

Reminiscin’ with Chris
Chris
Barber–One of the most stimulating and articulate musicians in the
music–is questioned by Dave Batchelor about his life in Jazz. VenueThe
Hub 11:30 £5.00

Seaside Skiffle
Championed by Ken Colyer and
Lonnie Donegan skiffle blended deep southern blues and country music
with British traditional jazz passion. Here’s a fun re-make with Eric
Wales, Jerry O’Regan, Hamish M VenueRoyal Overseas League 12:30 £8.00

Pete
Martin All Stars
Modern Jazz in Edinburgh in the 19’s was the
domain of trumpeter, Pete Martin, and his six piece band. They played
American mainstream jazz and bop with real verve and youthful
enthusiasm. Then they VenueThe Lot 14+18:30 £10.00

Toby Shippey
Banda Leon
Salsa Celtica and Rumba Caliente frontman, Toby Shippey
has had an eclectic music career; writing, recording and performing
everything from jazz to ska, punk, indie, gospel, hip-hop, salsa,
afro-latin VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+19:00 £10.00

Angie King and
Bruce Adams
Swinging trumpet meets classy vocals. There’s no finer
singer in Scotland than Angie King–she’s a real treasure to be
discovered–tonight she is joined by the bright swinging trumpet playing
of one VenueMinto Hotel 20:00 £10.00

Red Stripe Band
File
under ”Party.” Described as ”Jools Holland on Speed” the engagingly
infectious pianist and singer Red Stripe and his seven-piece band offer
wicked boogie-woogie, jump jive blues/rock and roll VenueThe Jamhouse
18+20:00 £12.50

Chris Barber at 80
The Big Chris Barber Band
+ Chris Barber All Star Jazz and Blues Band Edinburgh Jazz Festival
salutes one of the greats of British Jazz, and celebrates the fact that
at the remarkable age of 80, he VenueThe Queens Hall 20:00 £25.00, 20.00

Tom Bancroft’s Band Of Eden–Orchestro Interrupto
Band of
Eden is a mixed gender 18 piece contemporary big band featuring an
explosive mix of instrumental talent from all over the world. Playing
new compositions by Tom Bancroft and Laura Macdonald th VenueThe Hub
20:00 £12.50

David Berkman Trio
He doesn’t come from
Edinburgh, but in terms of Edinburgh Jazz History, no other
international star has made himself so welcome with musicians and
audiences in Edinburgh. We’re a second home for t VenueThe Lot 14+21:00
£10.00

GOL
What to expect? “Elements of Persia, dub, jazz,
funk and North Africa, and a groove that anyone can lock into”
(Astrojazz), GOL are an Edinburgh based band with a very unusual take on
world-jazz. Ro VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+22:00 £10.00

Jam Session
After
hours blow in classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of
the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the future.
VenueThe Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5.00

Friday 6 August

Jim
Petries’s Diplomats Of Jazz
He’s a national treasure–the trumpeter
and vocalist oozes passion and great emotional power, playing music from
the classic age of jazz. VenueRoyal Overseas League 12:30 £8.00

Napier
University Jazz Summer School
A showcase for the students’ newly
acquired skills! Led by Haftor Medboe. VenueThe Lot 14:00 £5.00

The
Piano In Jazz
Featuring:Tom Finlay Trio / David Berkman Duo/ Zoe
Rahman The history of jazz piano interpreted by three brilliant
pianists. Trio, Duo, Solo. We make mention especially of Tom Finlay, an
unsung he VenueThe Hub 14:30 £10.00

Elin Larsson Group + Loren
Stillman Duo
The young tearaway tenor saxophonist on the Stockholm
scene has transformed herself into a sophisticated bandleader playing
music that beguiles with folk roots, big melodies, catchy rhythms and
terrif VenueThe Lot 14+18:00 £10.00

Fat Sams Band
High
energy, toe-tapping, finger-snapping music in the vein of Louis Jordan,
Louis Prima or Basie. The nine-piece band is a throwback to the jump and
swing bands of the 30s and 40s and they have their VenueThe Jamhouse
18+20:00 £15.00

The Antique Six
Hugely popular English band,
making a rare Edinburgh appearance–music from Louis and Jelly Roll,
the trad revivalists, and plenty of “party jazz.” VenueHeriots Rugby
Club 20:00 £10.00

Haftor Medboe Group
The guitarist conjures
seductive cinematic atmospheres with energetic drum programming, lush
instrumental arrangements, brilliant saxophone soloing from Konrad
Wiszniewski; percussive drive from Signy VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30
£10.00

Curtis Stigers
Devilish, romantic, and sexy, Stigers
is a magnificent interpreter of modern songs penned by some of the most
influential songwriters of our time. His laconic, sandpaper voice is
complemented by his l VenueThe Hub 20:30 £20.00

Eric Burdon and
The Animals
Returning to deliver the full show, Burdon sings old and
new tunes with great power and impact, His searingly powerful
blues-rock voice was the hallmark of Sixties beat group The Animals.
Best known f VenueThe Queens Hall 20:30 £27.50, 22.50

Gordon
McNeil Sextet + David Gibson Quartet
McNeil is one of Scotland’s top
tenor and soprano saxists–in the Brecker, Bob Berg mould, he likes to
attack tempos and blow hard, and here he is with his Sextet featuring
Ryan Quigley and Malco VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10

Jam Session
After
hours blow in classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of
the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the future.
VenueThe Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5.00

Saturday 7 August

Edinburgh
Blues Festival: Ladies Sing The Blues
Featuring: Barbara Morrison,
Lisa Mills Band, Violet Leighton Band A triple bill of three great
female blues singers. LA’s Barbara Morrison is on her way to the Big Joe
Turner Blues Festival in VenueThe Jamhouse 18+13:00 £10.00

Tommy
Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra
Classic big band tunes from Ellington to
Maria Schneider delivered with panache, verve and youthful enthusiasm.
Tommy Smith has recruited Scotland’s best young jazz players and drilled
them into a cra VenueThe Hub 14:00 £10.00

Refuge Trio
Fusing
progressive rock, modern jazz and avant-garde minimalism, Refuge Trio
are three of New York’s cutting edge leaders: vocalist Theo Bleckmann,
drummer John Hollenbeck, and keyboardist Gary Vers VenueThe Lot 14+18:00
£10.00

Django a la Creole with Evan Christopher
Gypsy swing
imbued with the music of New Orleans, the Caribbean and Brazil.
Clarinettist, Evan Christopher is New Orleans’ leading clarinetist. He
combines virtuosity and immaculate taste with a str VenueThe Hub 19:00
£15.00

Edinburgh Blues Festival: Saturday Night
Featuring:
Blues N’Trouble, King King, Gerry Jablonski Electric Band Edinburgh’s
monster blues band headline a rollicking night of three big Festival
favourites. Blues N’Trouble’s classic VenueThe Jamhouse 18+20:00 £10.00

Ben
Bryden’s Bright Noise
Bryden is one of Scotland’s most exciting
young musicians. The tenor saxophonist has been living and playing in
New York for some time now, and here he is with fellow New Yorkers,
Steven Delannoye an VenueVoodoo Rooms 18+20:30 £8.00

Edinburgh
Jazz Festival Orchestra: Colin Steele
Directed by Colin Steele
Trumpeter and Composer, Colin Steele, is the Sibelius of the new
Scotland. His music is a massive, joyous celebration of Scottish melody
and rhythm, liberated and enhanced VenueThe Queens Hall 20:30 £19.50,
16.00

NeWt with Silke Eberhard
Trombonist Chris Greive,
guitarist Graeme Stephen, and drummer Chris Wallace have one of the most
unusual and distinctive sounds in 2010 Jazz. Their new album with the
virtuoso Berlin clarinetist, Sil VenueThe Lot 14+21:00 £10.00

Curtis
Stigers
Devilish, romantic, and sexy, Stigers is a magnificent
interpreter of modern songs penned by some of the most influential
songwriters of our time. His laconic, sandpaper voice is complemented by
his l VenueThe Hub 22:00 £20.00

Jam Session
After hours
blow in classic basement jazz club–you might hear the stars of the
Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the future. VenueThe
Jazz Bar 18+23:00 £5.00

Sunday 8 August

Edinburgh Blues
Festivalaul Lamb & The King Snakes, John Hunt, Lisa Mills solo
“Lamb
plays blues in the same way Brando used to straddle a Triumph….
lazily, cocksure, coolly and aggressive” (Blues & Rhythm) The top
harmonica player has a seasoned band of classy blues playe VenueThe
Jamhouse 18+13:00 £10

Naturally Inspired
An extraordinary
afternoon in the Botanics where musicians, dancers and storytellers,
inspired by nature, perform spontaneously and in small staged settings
throughout the Gardens. John Hollenbeck and VenueThe Botanics 13:00 FREE

An afternoon of Swing and Upbeat Jazz with: Edith Budge
Edith’s
big, bright voice and bubbling personality has long been a favourite of
Edinburgh audiences. Here she is with a brass section, featuring Lennie
Herd and Martin Foster, and top class rhythm to VenueThe Hub 16:00 £10

Carol
Kidd
Carol Kidd has always had a shower of stardust around her, and
here she is celebrating the songs Garland sang, from the great era of
Hollywood. Shimmering and soaring with flawless phrasing, Kidd’s
VenueThe Queens Hall 20:00 £22.50, 17.50

Edinburgh Blues
Festival: Musselwhite Band and The River Devils
He’s one of the
hottest acts on the international Blues circuit. Rockin’ out Festivals
and Blues joints all over the world. The harmonica player/vocalist has
one of the toughest, tightest bands in VenueThe Jamhouse 18+20:00 £15.00

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
The music of Cannonball and Nat
Adderley. Soulful, funky, swinging jazz that makes everyone feel
good–this new “supergroup” (Herald) is fronted by trumpeter, Colin
Steele and alto saxophonist, Marti VenueAssembly@Princes Street Gardens
18+20:30 £12.00

Naturally Inspired: Stuart Brown/John Hollenbeck
Group
Inspired by the sounds of wildlife–from the cross rhythms of
geese and electronic squeals of lapwings–two of the most exciting
young composers, from Scotland and the US, Brown and Hollenbeck unvei
VenueThe Hub 20:30 £12.50

Laura Macdonald Sextet
The
passionate and lyrical alto saxophonist plays beautiful tone poems,
overflowing with emotion; dense, surging music with horn solos over
heaving percussion; and wonderfully atmospheric melodies. La VenueThe
Lot 14+21:00 £10.00