MUSIC LIST/JAZZ
Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Popular scene. a focus for the most adventurous ofthe younger players. Drummer Bill Kyle leads regular line up ofpiano keyboards. bass. drums. guitar. brass and reeds. Modern. bop. some mainstream. blues.
I Charlie McNair's Band Preservation
Hall. Victoria Street. 2263816. Evening. I Sophie Bancroft/Spike Wright Three Tuns Wine Vaults. Hanover Street. 830—] 1pm. Young female vocalist with respect for jazz songs.
THURSDAY 13 Glasgow
I Jiveass Blues and Boogie Wintersgills. Great Western Road. 8.31%] 1pm. Great two-vocalist R&B band.
I Live Jazz Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. EveningCheck for details.
Edinburgh
I Gordon Fyfie Trio Alton l lotel. Grosvenor Crescent. livening.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar Restaurant. The Shore. 1.eith.9pm. Tonight Pschyco Blue. vocals and piano.
IJoe Capaldi Quartet Brandos. Blair Street. Evening.
I Criterion Jam Band Fat Sams. Fountainbridge. Evening.
I Templehall Stompers Temple 1 lotel. Esplanade. Joppa. 6694264. livcning. Trad and dixie residents.
FRIDAY 14
Glasgow
I Nicky Hind/Chamber Works Third liye Centre. Sauchiehall Street. 332 7521. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). lidinburgh based composer's new works performed by the Morley Ensemble. llind‘s Glass-like musical structures have a wide appeal.
I Glasgow Rhythm Club l'nitarian Church. 73 Berkeley Street. 7.45pm. Established 1933. Records and talk discussion. Tonight Norrie McSwan on Basic.
I George McGowan Band Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Evening. With Linda Fletcher. vocals.
Edinburgh
I Friday Night At The Queens HallClcrk Street. 668 2019. 8.30pm. £6.50(£5). Tickets from Queens l lall Box Office: Virgin Records. Princes Street; Ripping Records. North Bridge; Iona Records. Stockwell Street. Glasgow. DagmarKrause is a German singer who lives in London. one of the leading interpretors of Brecht. Weill and. as recorded on her latest album. the songs of 1 lanns liisler. See panel.
I Liz MacEwan/Jim Henry ( ‘rest 1 lotcl. Ouccnsferry Road. 332 2442.
7.45»—l 1.45pm. Soul jazz with piano accompaniment.
I Alpha Jazz Quartet lillersley l lotise Hotel. Tillerslcy Road. (‘orstorphinu 337 6888. 8— 1 1pm.
I Danny Dorrian and Friends Cumberland Hotel. West Coates Gardens. 8.30--1 1pm.
SATURDAY 15 Glasgow
I Ron Moore. Rikki Fernandez and Friends La Taverna. 7a Lansdowne Crescent. 339 7128. 9—1 1pm. Free. Resident guitarand bass with guest musician each week.
I George McGowan Orchestra Berlin Lounge Bar. 8— 10 West George Street. Queen Street Station. 335 2382. 2—5pm. Free. The Big Band Sound. old and new. I Bill Fanning Orchestra Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 2pm. Weekly event.
I Society Quartet Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8pm. 50p. Music and dancing with Ted Bosley. guitar; Jimmy Alston. vocals; George Morrison. bass guitar; Pat Gallagher. drums.
Clarinet and big band swing, like piston engined aeroplanes, are sounds redolent oi the 403, the turmoil oi the war years, the optimism of peace. Clarinettist Peter Schilperoort formed the Dutch Swing College in May ’45, and on the 12th, in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the world's longest running jazz ouiiit periorrn lortheir many tans, in the company oi the Central Band oi the RAF, playing the music oi the period. Then a week later, the reconstructed Glenn Miller Orchestra touches down in Glasgow, tor a Pavilion concert on the 18th, beiore moving overto the Usher Hall on the 19th.
Britain's leading clarlnettist from the post-war years is not to be leit out. Dave Shepherd, who has the distinction of having accompanied Billie Holiday on her visit to Britain in the early 50$, leads his celebrated Benny Goodman style quintet to Liberty’s, at the Edinburgh Playhouse on the 8th and the Glasgow Society of Musicians on the 9th.
Schooled in music conservatory and the big hands oi Vic Lewis and Dankworth, Kenny Wheeler (see photo), is a trumpet-family virtuoso who has moved through bebop, through iazz/rock and irom tree jazzer to world-travelling prolessional in the company of Keith Jarret, Jan Garbarek or Michael Brecker. To the Queens Hall on the 7th he brings a strong quintet, led by superb tenorlst Stan Sulzmann, in what will be a thoughtiul and exhilarating exposition oi skilled technique and liberated imagination.
The rise of Nazism was the catalyst that turned the young Hanns Eisler irom
Ronde. York Place. 12.31%2306111. Blues.
Edinburgh
I Palace Jazz Palace Hotel. Castle Street. 2256222. New venue hopes to feature lively. young-looking music. starting off with regular Saturday night gigs.
I Alex Shaw Trio Platform 1.Rut1and Street. 225 2433. Lunchtime.
I Dr MacJazz Basin Street. Haymarket. Evening. Trad venue.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar Restaurant. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Tonight Ewan Baird Group. guitar. piano. bass.
I Liz MacEwan/Jim Henry Crest Hotel. ()ueensferry Road. 332 2442.
745—1 1 .45pm. Songs. bluesy and soulful. at the piano.
I Toto And The Jazz Bostons Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. 2—4pm.
SUNDAY 16 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Jazz Paisley ArtsCentre. New Street. Paisley. 887 1010. Lunchtime front 12.30pm. Live music.
I Duncan Whyte Jazz Band The Maggie Bell. Strand Street. Kilmarnock. 8—11pm. I George Penman's Jazz Band Curlers. Byres Road. 334 1284. Trad from 8.30—10.50pm.
Edinburgh
I Basement Club L'Attachc. Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 2-6pm. Free. Bar meals available all afternoon. Modern jazz in the basement bar. Trio with weekly guest. Today. guitarist Sandy Wright.
I Brian Kellock Trio Platform 1. Caledonian Hotel. Rutland Place. 1~3pm. Modern jazz piano.
I Liz MacEwan/Jim Henry Cafe A La
a modernist composer and disciple oi Schoenberg, to a militant political songwriter, whose creations in the Berlin at the late 203 and early 3113, and in subsequent exile in the ultimately hostile United States, are as trenchantly relevant today, while our ‘liberal democracies’ are, bit by bit, chipped away. Hamburg-born Dagmar Krause is an internationally reknowned interpreter, in German and English, of Brecht, Weill, and especially Eisler's relentlessly chromatic, dramatically rhythmic welding of music and meaning. And as the Edinburgh Queens Hall audience will hear on the 14th, she is always the servant oi the song. (Norman Chalmers).
jazz and soul for your lunch.
I Jim Henry Group Raeburn Bar. Raeburn Place. l—2.30pm.
I Acanthus Waverley Bridge. By Waverley Station entrance. Live lunchtime music from the Diplomats of Jazz.
I Capital Jazz Band Crest l iotel. Queensferry Road. 332 2442. 2—-5pm.
I Jan Sunday Royal British 1 lotel. Princes Street. 871 1pm. Free. unless special guest artists are performing. Tonight the residents. Mike Hart's Society Syncopators include singer Wendy Weatherby.
I Barony Jazz Barony Bar. Broughton Street. 5570546. Live band. 8.30- 1 1pm. Tonight Melanie O‘Reilly and Francis Cowan. vocals with guitar.
IAlpha Jazz Quartet iiilersiey l louse Hotel. Ellcrsley Road. (‘orstorphinc. 33" 6888. 8— 1 1pm.
MONDAY 17 Glasgow
I Perdldo Rooftops. 92 Sauchiehall Street. 9pm—midnight. Mainstream music. dancing. it you like.
I Glllespies Jazz Spot (iillespies. 26 (‘hcapside Street. off Clyde Street. Jive lessons. 8pm. Kit Carey's Jan Band. 9pm. Membership at the door.
I George Penman's Jazz Band ( ‘arnegies Jazz Club. 142 St Vincent Street. 2263833. 9pm—midnight. Trad masters.
I Live Jazz Chadis Restaurant. 158 Bath Street. 331 2257.
Edinburgh
I Martin Foster Trio Maxies Bistro. west Nicolson Street. 9pm—midnight.
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I Shore Music The Shore Bar/Restaurant. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Tonight Hugh and Graham. swing violin and guitar.
I East Coast Jazz Band Blue Lagoon. Angle Park Terrace. 331 9922. Evening. 9pm-midnight. Resident Trad band.
TUESDAY 18 Glasgow
I Bobby Wishart Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Leading saxophonist‘s jazz and fusion band.
I Big Jazz Night Boswell Hotel. Mansion 1 louse Road. Langside. 8pm. George ()gilvtc leads the Trad and Dixie bash. I Jazz Academy Bonhams. Byrcs Road. 357 3424. Evening.
I Monty's Bar And Diner 12% Argyle Street. near Kelvin Hall. 334 8907. Fvening. Live jazz night. mainly Trad.
Edinburgh
I Micha Mengelberg Trio/Pointy Birds ('lcrk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £4(£3). Tickets front Queens 1 Tall Box Office. With the great pianist are Ab Baars. reeds. and the unpredictable and brilliant drummer percussionist Han Bennink. Pointy Birds are making a name for themselves Down South with an all-encompassing improvised music using sax. cello and double bass.
I Louisiana Ragtime Band Navaar l louse Hotel. Mayfield Gardens. 667 2828. Iivening.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar Restaurant. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Tonight Robert Pettigrew and Kenny Ellis. piano. double bass.
I Barony Jazz Barony Bar. Broughton Street. 557 0546. Jack HammerBand
9—1 1 .30pm. Singer leads sax andguitar band.
WEDNESDAY 19 Glasgow
I Sandy Taylor/Alex Moore Duo Glasgow Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 6112. 8.30pm. 50p. Bar.
Edinburgh
I Glenn Miller Orchestra L‘s-her 1 Tall. Lothian Road. 228 1 155. 8pm. {7501450. Stars of the 40‘s Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Army Air Force Band. I Bill Kyle's Jazz Base L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Leader on drums with a regular line upof
piano keyboards. bass. drums. guitar. brass and reeds. Modern. bop. some mainstream. blues.
I Sophie Bancroft/Spike Wright Three Tuns Wine Vaults. Hanover Street. 8.30-1 1pm. She's the best ofthe youngcrsingers.
I Charlie McNalr's Band Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. Evening. Long lasting lidinburgh band.
THURSDAY 20 Glasgow
I Jeanette Bums/Andy Alston Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 5525924. Evening.
I Jiveass Blues and Boogie Wintersgills. Great Western Road. 830—] 1pm. Great. rough R&B band.
Edinburgh
I Gordon Fytie Trio Afton Hotel. Grosvenor Crescent. Evening.
I Criterion Jazz Band Fat Sams. Fountainbridge. Evening.
I Templehall Stampers Temple Hotel. lisplanade. Joppa. 669 4264. Evening. Trad and dixie residents. Good fun. Busy. older crowd.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar/Restaurant. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Tonight Pschyco Blue. laid-back piano/female vocalist.
I Joe Capaldi Quartet Brandos. Blair Street. Evening.
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