MUSIC LIST
Street. Lunchtime. 0 Hana Nico‘s. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1585. Cool modern. Lunchtime.
Edinburgh
0 Mike Hart’s Syncopaters Learmonth Hotel. Learmonth Terrace. Lunchtime. Banjo and Brass.
0 Capital Jazz Band Grosvenor Hotel. Grosvenor Street. Lunchtime.
0 Contos Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. Latin Jazz with vibes.
o Tam White and The Dexters
Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816.
o Basin Street Stompers Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace.
0 Jack Findlay or Tom Findlay Quartet Alternate weeks. Fingers Piano Bar. Frederick Street.
MONDAY 13 Glasgow
0 The Cotton Club Jazz Dance Disco. Scott Street. 3320712. 10.30pm—3.30am.
Edinburgh
0 Swing '85 Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 225 6229. Django meets
? Benny Goodman. 0 East CoastJazz Band Blue Lagoon. 2 Angle Park Terrace.
TUESDAY 14
Glasgow 0 Bobby Wishart Quartet Halt Bar.
i Woodlands Road. Keyboards.
electric bass and drums with Wishart on sax. Bop and fusion.
Edinburgh
0 Swing ’85 Malt Shovel. Cockburn
E Street. 225 6229. Hot club sound. but ' clarinet and sax lead.
0 Delta Devils Maxies Bistro. West Nicolson Street. 667 0845.
Guitar-based blues and American
Swing.
T 0 Melanie D'Reilly and Francis Cowan 3 Shore Bar. Leith. Mainstream singer
with guitarist. Intimate ambience.
, adjoining restaurant.
0 West End Jazz Band Basin Street.
Haymarket. Solid trad band in
Edinburgh‘s main venue for the early form ofJazz.
WEDNESDAY Glasgow
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* O Burton/Coutts/CIark Metropolitan 2 Bistro. Ruthven Lane. Alternate
weeks.
0 Smith/Lyall Quartet De Quincey’s.
Union Street. 333 0633. Alternate
weeks. Check for details.
0 Sandy Taylor/Alex Moore Duo Plus Friends Glasgow Society of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm.
Edinburgh
0 Liz McEwan/Jim Henry Dragonara Hotel. Belford Road. Bluesy/Soul Jazz singer. She has one of the best voices around.
0 Charlie McNair’s Band Preservation Hall. Victoria Street, 226 3816. One of Edinburgh‘s longest serving Trad bands.
0 Louisiana Ragtime Band Basin Street, Haymarket Terrace. Dixieland music.
THURSDAY 16
Glasgow
0 Blue Note Night Club Lucifer‘s. Jamaica Street. 284. 4600. 10.30pm-3am. Live music starts 11.45pm. Jazz disco. Live artists. Only jazz nightclub in Glasgow - gets busy around midnight. Phone for details of the evening‘s live band. 0 Burton/Nicholson Quartet Blackfriars. Albion Street. Bebop and beyond.
0 Smith/Lyall anrtet Halt Bar. Woodland Road. Flying sax and keyboards.
Edinburgh
0 Sue Robertson Maxies Bistro. West Nicholson Street. Classic songs accompanied by Davy on guitar. Billie Holliday numbers a favourite. o The Francis Cowan Trio with Melanie D’Reilly The Kilderkin. Constitution Street. Leith. Gerry Forde on bass, Dick Lee on clarinet and sax. Francis on guitar. Melanie vocals.
0 Brian Kellog Trio Royal British Hotel. Princes Street. 556 4901. Resident pianist.
0 Fat Sam's Band Goodtime Emporium. Abbcymount. One of Edinburgh‘s venues for dixieland and trad.
O Spirits of Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. Enjoyable small group.
0 West End Jazz Band Ailsa Craig Hotel. Mainly mainstream standards.
FRIDAY
Glasgow
0 Jazz on Record Glasgow Rhythm Club. Berkeley Street. 7.45pm.
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Come and listen. informal talks on Ragtime. New Orleans. Swing Bebop. Avant Garde.
Edinburgh
0 Melanie Q'Reilly and Francis Cowan Carlton Hotel. North Bridge. Refined guitar accompaniment to smooth vocals of the lady.
0 Roy Williams/Brian Keddie, John Barnes/Bobby Wishart Trombone duo and sax duo (with trio accompaniment). Queens I'Iall. Clerk Street. 10pm. £3.50 (£2.50 members). Presented by Platform Jazz.
0 Spirits of Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket. Punchy music from the earlier days ofjazz.
o The String Vests The Kilderkin. Constitution Street. Leith. Blues/Swing duo.
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SATURDAY
Glasgow
0 George McGowan Orchestra Daniel Brown‘s. St Vincent Street. 1.30—4.30pm. Jazz from the Big Band era.
0 Free Session Cumbernauld Theatre. 1pm. Start ofa new series of free jazz sessions in the bar. hosted by Tom McGrath on the piano.
0 Frank Pantrini Quintet Curlers. Byres Road. 334 0352. Swing Music. Lunchtime.
0 Bill Fanning Big Band Shadows. Bath Street. 332 0532. Swing Music.
Lunchtime.
l !
y 0 Margaret Murphy Alternate weeks
in Metropolitan Bistro. Ruthven
, Lane. Lunchtime.
Edinburgh
0 Tam White and The Dexters
SAX DF BONES
Plattorm blows into the New Year with an interesting pair 01 pairings; Edinburgh's top line trombonist Brian Keddie and poll-winning slideman Roy Williams, London based king of mainstream and swing, share the stage with Glasgow's Bobby Wishart (above) and the other Londoner John Barnes on tenor, baritone and soprano sax and clarinet.
Williams and Barnes were both
members at Alex Welsh’s band in the 70s and I expect the temporary emergence or an 11 piece group towards the end of a stimulating night at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh on the 17th.
Look forward also to the same venue on the 24th with singer Sheila Jordan/bassist Harvie Swartz and solo guitarist Martin Taylor. (Norman Chalmersl
Platform One. Rutland Street. Tam with the 9 piece band. includes brass section and lady vocalist.
0 Alex Shaw Trio Platform One. Rutland Street. Lunchtime.
0 Mike Hart's Selection Basin Street. Haymarket. Small traditional jazz band. Wonderful selection ofjazz posters on the stairs.
SUNDAY Glasgow
0 Bourbon Jazz Band Beacon Hotel. Park Terrace. Dixieland Band. Lunchtime.
o Ricki Fernandez and Friends The Tron Bar. Tron Theatre. Parnie Street. Lunchtime.
0 TZone Nico‘s. Sauchiehall Street. 332 1585. Cool modern. Lunchtime.
Edinburgh
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g 0 Mike Hart's Syncopaters Learmonth Hotel. Learmonth Terrace.
Lunchtime.
0 Capital Jazz band Grosvenor Hotel. Grosvenor Street. Lunchtime.
O Contos Platform One. Rutland Street. 225 2433. Latin Jazz with vibes.
o Tam White and The Dexters
Preservation Hall. Victoria Street.. ‘
226 3816. The smaller band hall usually gets full up.
0 Basin Street Stampers Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. They play like they sound.
0 Jack Findlay of Tom Findlay Quartet Alternate weeks. Fingers Piano Bar.
Frederick Street.
MONDAY
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Glasgow 0 The Cotton Club Jazz Dance Disco.
I Scott Street. 332 0712.
10.30pm—3.30am. Edinburgh
0 Swing ’85 Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 225 6229. Two guitars. bass and clarinet/sax. mainly instrumental music from 30s—50s. 0 East Coast Jazz band Blue Lagoon. Angle Park Terrace.
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UESDAY
Glasgow
0 Bobby WishartQuartetf Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Keyboards. electric bass and drums with Wishart on sax. Bop and fusion.
Edinburgh
0 Swing '85 Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 225 6229. Hot club sound, but clarinet and sax lead.
0 Delta Devils Maxies Bistro, West Nicolson Street. 6670845. Guitar- based blues and American Swing.
0 Melanie O’Reilly and Francis Cowan
'Shore Bar. Leith. Mainstream singer
with guitarist. Intimate ambience. adjoining restaurant.
0 West End Jazz Band Basin Street. Haymarket. Solid trad band in Edinburgh’s main venue for the early form ofJazz.
WEDNESDAY
Glasgow
0 Burton/Coutts/ Clark Metropolitan Bistro. Ruthven Lane. Alternate weeks.
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The List 10— 23 January 19