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40 The List 25 October — 7 November 1991
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Oates listed below are lorone-oti shows: see separate section tor residencies. Gigs are listed by date. then by city. Performances will be listed. provided that details reach our offices at least one week belore publication. Jan Listings compiled by Kenny Mathieson.
FRIDAY 25 ’
Glasgow
I Mike Travis's EH15 The Basement Club. Blackfriars. 36 Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 10pm—1am (no admission after 11.30pm). £3.50(2.50). E11 15 markthe release of their The View From Where cassette (Eclectic Records) with a quick return to the club. albeit minusJim Hannah‘s keyboards. Modern jazz spiked with more wide-ranging musical flavourings from Steve Kcttlcy (saxophoncs). Graham Muir (guitar). Stuart Smith (bass) and drummer Mike Travis.
Edinburgh
I Freddie Hubbard Quintet Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. CANCELLED. The trumpeter would have been making his Scottish debut. but has cancelled his European tour at short notice. Assembly have decided not to attempt to organise a replacement. and the season will now start with Taj Mahal next week (see Friday 1).
SATURDAY 26
Glasgow
I Candlelight Jazz Club Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 9pm—midnight. £3. Traditional jazz club featuring George Penman’s Jazzmen. with appropriate substitutions when unavailable.
SUNDAY 27 Glasgow
I Big Band Session Society ofMusicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 2—5pm. £1. The excellent Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra alternate with the Tim Barella Big Band.
Edinburgh
I Doky Brothers Band featuring Tommy Smith Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8.30pm. £9.50—£6 (£4.50). Brought up in Copenhagen‘s fertile jazz scene. brothers Niels Lan Doky (piano) and Christian Minh Doky (bass) have joined forces in this band. Saxophonist Tommy Smith. who employs Niels to excellent effect in his own band. fills the saxophone chair. while Finnish drummer Jukkis Uotila has proved his mettle in the Randy Brecker Quintet. The band also play at the Younger Hall in St Andrews on Saturday 26. and the Arts Centre in Aberdeen on Monday 28. See preview. and also Tuesday 29.
MONDAY 28 Glasgow
I Ivory Black’s Revue Club 56 Oswald Street. 9pm. £1.50; £2.50 after 10pm; free to musicians. This club is intended to be a musician‘s haunt for the traditional night-off (although most musicians I know will permit themselves a wry smile at the idea of there only being one gig-less night in the week). but is open to the public. The featured band will be Berkeley Street Blues. an offshoot of the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra who favour a more traditional style. From 10.45pm. the house trio will take over. with guests sitting in.
I Kit Carey's Jazz Band Society of
Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 9pm—midnight. £2. Traditional.
TUESDAY 29 I Glasgow
I Doky Brothers Band featuringTommy Smith Henry Wood llall. Claremont Street. 227 551 1 . 8pm. £7.50 (£4.50). See Sunday27.
WEDNESDAY 30 Glasgow
I Sandy Taylor and John Henry Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8.30pm. £1 . Mainstream piano and bass
duo. with guests.
THURSDAY 31 | Edinburgh
I File Youth Jazz Orchestra Adam Smith Theatre. Kirkcaldy. 0592 260498. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). FYJO have achieved a high standard of performance under the guidance of Richard Michael overthc years. while Michael‘s own son Robin is already a pianist of prodigious promise.
FRIDAY 1 Glasgow
I Picanle The Basement Club. Blackfriars. 36 Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. llipm— 1 am (no admission after 11.30pm). £3.50 (2.50). Drummer Ken Mathieson [no relation] leads a relaxed but swinging modern quintet. with the emphasis on bop and Latin grooves.
Edinburgh
I Taj Mahal Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8.30pm. £7. £8.50.£9.50. concessions (£4) on door ifavailable. Singer. guitarist and pianist Taj Mahal has explored just about every corner ofblack music over the past three decades. and moves into the 1990s with no signs of slowing down. His current tour in support of the Like Never Before (Private Music) album features an eight-piece band. but will also include a solo blues set from the man himself. Scottish blues band The Roolsies Duo fill the support slot. See Preview.
SATURDAY 2 Glasgow
I John Murray Orchestra Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. I 2—5pm. £1. A new weekly lunchtime ! session begins today. featuringJohn I Murray's Greenock-based mainstream big ‘ band. I CandlelightJazz Club Society of
Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 9pm-midnight. £3. See Saturday 26.
SUNDAY 3 . Glasgow
I Big Band Session Society ofMusicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 2—5pm. £1. The excellent Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra alternate with the Tim Barella Big Band.
I Lanny Morgan Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8pm. £6 (members £4). Alto saxophonist Lanny Morgan served an apprenticeship with various big bands before making his name in a five-year stint as principal soloist with the Maynard Ferguson Big Band (1960-1965). After leaving Ferguson. he played in a variety ofother bands. established a name as a studio musician. and recorded as leader of his own small groups. as well as teaching at Stanford University. He is an ex-member ofthe Supersax group. and appears tonight in the congenial company of the Sandy Taylor Trio.