MUSIC LIST
Bar, Cowgate. Evening. Neil the Hippy’s backing band.
MONDAY 12 Glasgow
0 Irish Music Stage Door Bar, Gorbals Street, 429 0922. Evening. 0 Blsketeers Wintersgills Bar, Great Western Road. Evening. Four pavement hustlers. Folk/Pop.
Edinburgh
0 Traditional Dancing 14 Buccleuch Place. 7.30—9.30pm. With Live
0 Session Fiddlers Arms, Grassmarket, 229 2655. Evening. Go early ifyou want a seat.
0 Glll Hewitt Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Banjo and voice.
TUESDAY 13 Edinburgh
0 Barrie Band Bannerman‘s Bar, Cowgate, 556 3254. Evening. Indefinite number of traditional musicians. Lightly amplified.
0 Jim Knight's Night Royal Oak, Infirmary Street. Evening. Folk Songs of Britain.
0 Crown Folk Club 48a The Pleasance. 8.30pm. Instrumental workshops for folk instruments. All welcome.
0 Billy Jones Chez Fred, Spittal Street. Evening. Pop/Folk.
0 June Tabor and Martin Simpson Penicuik Folk Club. 8pm. Navaar Hotel. £2. The very best from England. Beautiful and distinctive singer in Ms Tabor and Martin Simpson is one of the best guitarists and most sensitive accompanists around. Well worth the trip.
WEDNESDAY 14
Glasgow
0 Whlstlebinkies People‘s Palace. See Maylest.
O Malian Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. Evening. Melodeon, fiddle and sundry assistants.
1 O Tolbooth Bar Glasgow Cross.
Evening. Blues and Country.
Edinburgh
0 Come All Ye Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 8pm. 0 Reverend Brothers Shore Bar, Leith. Evening. Paddy‘s on the shore.
0 Robin Turner Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Irish banjo and guitar, Dylan and traditional.
THURSDAY 15 Glasgow
0 Glll Burns Star Folk Club, Calton Place. 8pm. £1.
0 Gerry Alrlle Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. Evening. Described as ‘contemporary folk’.
0 Busketeers Wintersgills Bar, Great Western Road. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Billy Jones Lord Darnley’s, Bread Street. Evening. R ‘n’ B and R ‘n’ R. o Shetland Fiddlers Society Meets every week to play and learn tunes. Welcome to all. 8—11pm.
0 Jim Knight Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening.
JAZZ BLUES
Please note that evening sessions begin at approx 8.30pm unless otherwise stated.
FRIDAY 2
Glasgow
0 Jazz on Record Glasgow Rhythm Club. Berkeley Street. 7.45pm. Come and listen, informal talks on Ragtime, New Orleans, Swing, Bebop, Avant Garde.
Edinburgh
0 Gooseberrles Henderson’s Wine Bar, Hanover Street. Evening. Cabaret standards, vocalist and pianist, in the wine bar restaurant.
0 Melanie D'Reilly and Francis Cowan Carlton Hotel. North Bridge. Evening. Mainstream dulcet vocals on guitar ground.
SATURDAY 3- Glasgow
0 George McGowan Orchestra Daniel Brown‘s, St Vincent Street. 1.30—4.30pm. Swinging Big Band. 0 Bill Fanning Big Band Shadows, Bath Street, 332 0532. Swing music. Lunchtime and all afternoon, ’30’s and ’40‘s style.
0 Cumbemauld Theatre Lunchtime. Tom McGrath and others. Modern
jam, Tom at the piano, others sitting in.
0 Bobby Wishart Quintet Society of Musicians. Berkeley Street.
Lunchtime. Top Bopper.
0 George Penman Jazzman The Midas, St. Vincent Street. Lunchtime. Solid, long-lived trad band.
0 Jimmy Feighan Guintet with Shelagh Buchanan Lorne Hotel, Sauchiehall Street. Lunchtime. Leading on sax and vibes, mainstream music from long established players.
0 Maylest Opening CelebralanGlasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street. 221 4526. 8pm. See Maylest.
Edinburgh
0 Alex Shaw Trio Platform One, Rutland Street. Lunchtime. New cassette available soon, modern jazz, musicians sitting in.
0 Mike Hart’s Selection Basin Street, Haymarket. Evening. Small traditional jazz band.
0 George Roy Jazz Band Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. Lunchtime. New Orleans for this afternoon.
0 Lazy ll White Swan, Morrison Street. 10—2am. Disco Club £1.50. Jazz-Blues-Soul-Funk-R&B.
o Tam White and the Dexters Platform One, Rutland Street. Evening. Tam with the nine-piece band including brass section.
0 Beat llAssembly Rooms. George Street. Three days of percussion workshops. £1 .50 for three days. Creche. 10am warm up/coffee. Instruction on bongos, congas, xylophone, tambours, steel drums, drum kits, temple blocks, maraccas etc. Enquire 225 2424 ext. 6623/6625 (Edinburgh District Council Recreation Department).
. KINTONE
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Russell Herman, guitar and Frank William, sax—both ex-District Six, a group named alter Russell's home township in the Cape, bring their latest band up lrom London. Going Home, their iirst album as Kintone, with Peter Trottman on bass; Tim Atkins, drums and percussion; Adrian Reid, keyboards and everyone on vocals,
way up the Non-aligned Music Charts with fellow Southern Alricans and Maylest visitors the Bhundu Boys. The music is a melodic blend ol Airo American jazz, Township, and the Caribbean influence at some of the members, not purely lor listening nor straight dance music but somewhere in between.
SUNDAY 4
Glasgow
0 Bourbon Jazz Band Beacon Hotel, Park Terrace. Lunchtime. Dixieland band.
0 Ricki Fernandez and Friends The Tron Bar, Tron Theatre, Parnie Street. Lunchtime.
O T-Zone Nico’s, Sauchiehall Street. 332 5736. Lunchtime. Alternate weeks. 0 Two and Two Make Sax Babbity Bowster, Blackfriars Street. 3pm. £3. See Maylest.
Edinburgh
0 Capital Jazz Band Crest Hotel, Queensferry Road. Lunchtime. Trad jazz band.
0 Texas Funk/Latin/Jazz Club disco bar, above Coasters, West Tollcross. 10pm.
0 Mike Hart’s Syncopaters Learmonth Hotel, Learmonth Terrace. ' Lunchtime.
o Tam White and the Dexters Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. Evenings. Soul/Rock band with brass. 226 3816.
o Basin Street Stompers Basin Street, Haymarket Terrace. Evening. Satchmo’s music.
0 Delta Devils Maxies Bistro, West Nicolson Street, 667 0845. Evenings. 0 Carol Kidd with The Sandy Taylor Trio and The Society Syncopaters Learmonth Hotel, Learmonth Terrace. 343.2671. 1pm. £1.
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o The Cotton Club Jazz Dance Disco Scott Street, 3320712. 10.30pm—3.30am.
0 Tommy Tedesco Kelvin Park Lorne Hotel, Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. See Maylest.
Edinburgh
0 Swing '86 Malt Shovel, Cockburn Street, 2256843. Evenings. Django meets Goodman.
0 East Coast Jazz Band Blue Lagoon, Angle Park Terrace. Evenings. Straight early tunes and arrangements.
0 Basin Street Stampers Basin Street, Haymarket Terrace. Evenings. Delta Devils Shore Bar, Leith. Evening. Boogie and Blues.
TUE DA 6
Glasgow
0 Bobby Wishart Quartet Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Evening. Sax lead on electric band. Top player.
0 Batchelors ol Jazz Saints and Sinners, St Vincent Street. 8.30pm—midnight. High quality trad. O Shelagh Buchanan Lorne Hotel, Sauchiehall Street. Evenings. Mainstream singer.
Edinburgh
0 Swing '86 Malt Shovel, Cockburn Street, 225 6843. Evenings. Hot club sound, but clarinet and sax lead.
0 Melanie D'Reilly and Francis Cowan Shore Bar, Leith. Evenings. Mainstream singer with guitarist.
0 West End Jazz Band Basin Street, HaymarketTerrace. Evenings. Solid 1 trad band in Edinburgh‘s main venue for the early form ofjazz.
The List2— 15 May11