EDINUBGH JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL LISTINGS
MICHAEL HYMAH
Already the most celebrated British film composer of modern times, Michael Hyman has found that his collaborations with director Peter Oreenaway on films like ‘The Oraughtsman’s Contract’ and ‘A Zed And Two Houghts’ have transformed him into that rarest of phenomena: a living composer whose concerts attract a wide cross-section of the public, including those who would never normally attend classical pertormances. The Michael Hyman Band play the Festival Theatre on Sat 6.
JAZZ & BLUES
FESTIVAL
I Mardi fires The Grassmarket. Free. l—4pm. The first of two big free events this weekend. with traditional jazz on the streets and Cajun food in the pubs and restaurants.
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SATURDAY 6 ‘
I Michael Hyman Band
Festival Theatre. 13/29
Nicolson Street. 529
6000. £5—£12.5(). A concert appearance by
Nyman is long overdue in
Scotland. and if it takes a
jazz festival to do it. so be
it. See feature.
I Jazz Festival Opening
Party Queen's Hall. South
Clerk Street. 668 2019.
8pm—2am. £5. An
opening ball ill all but
name. with the Monty
Sunshine Band, The 100
Club All-Stars, Ben Cohen
Hot Five and the manic
Brasshoppers.
I The Music Box Victoria
Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm.
£5. Traditional jazz with
the Monty Sunshine Band, [The Zenith New Orleans
Sumnne Bonnar, see Thurs 11
Band and the Armstrong-
inspired Ben Cohen Hot
Five. I The Blue Hote Minus
One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. The focus is on more modern styles here. Tonight saxman Andrew Speight and trumpeter Eddie Severn lead their quartets. There is also a nightly jam session from midnight. with the Tristan Harris Trio as house band.
I Jazz On A Summer’s an Ross Bandstand. Princes Street Gardens West. 11am—6pm. Free. Now well established as a major crowd-puller. this extravaganza begins with a gospel service as usual. From 1pm. a succession of the festival‘s featured performers take the stage. I Big Band Bonanza Queen’s Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £7. £5. Saxophonist Andrew Speight was one of the successes of last year‘s very mixed Australian crowd. This concert teams
him up with three local
youth big bands. the Edinburgh University Jazz Orchestra, the Hapier University Big Band, and the Lothian Schools Jazz Band.
I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm. £5.1ump-jive with King Pleasure And The Biscuit Boys, mainstream from The 100 Club All-Stars, and the New Orleans style of The Ben Cohen Hot Five.
I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Similar programme to the Music Box. with King Pleasure, The 100 Club All-Stars, and Ben Cohen, plus pianist Howard McCrary. A nightly jam session will take place in the Mambo Room from 11.30pm. featuring the Alex Shaw Trio as house band.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. It’s Travis night. with the Theo Travis Ouartet from London and Mike Travis’s EII 15 from Edinburgh. Jam session from midnight.
MONDAY 8
I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Pianist Stan Grieg leads a boogie- woogie special.
I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. ladies of Jazz feature. and a tribute to Muggsy Spanier in Muggsy Remembered.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. More from the Theo Travis Quartet.
I Ted Heath Band Festival Theatre. 13/29 Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8~£i5 One of the most successful of the great British big bands. and still carrying on the Heath tradition of musicianship combined with professionalism. See preview.
I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm. £5. Saxman Danny Moss and pianist Howard McCrary lead the bill.
I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton, plus tributes to Bob Crosby in March at the Bobcats and Muggsy Spanier in Muggsy Remembered, and more boogie-woogie from Stan Grieg. J am session from 11.30pm in the Mambo Room.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Bruce Adams and Alan Barnes guest with the Edinburgh University Jazz Orchestra, and pianist Steve Hamilton leads a trio. Jam session from midnight.
I McEwans's 80/- Pub Trail The pub trail will run from today until Friday. with sessions at lunchtime and in the evening in eight venues. featuring mainly local bands. but with the occasional visitor thrown in. See grid in jazz festival brochure for full details. All gigs are free. but expect the usual pub listening conditions.
TUESDAY 9
I Masterclass with Don lusher Queen‘s Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. Midday. £2.50. A potentially absorbing new venture for the festival. The trombonist and arranger expounds the mysteries of big band ‘azz.
I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Pianist Butch Thompson leads the bill.
I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Two tenors feature with Danny Moss and Tommy Whittle.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Berklee student Steve Hamilton.
I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm. £5. The Golden Age (if Bebop. with Bruce Adams and Alan Barnes.
I Ella Fitzgerald
Songbook Queen‘s Hall. South Clerk Street. 668
2019. 8pm. £10. £8. Saxophonist Tommy Whittle initially put together this tribute
package to Ella as a one- off. and it did so well that
it is now in considerable
demand. The Fitzgerald repertoire is interpreted by singers Maxrne Daniels,
Rosemary Clooney and Barbara Jay, and they
range widely across her
whole career for material I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. A Louis Armstrong celebration. led by trumpeters DOC Cheatham, Kenny Baker
j and Humphrey lyttelton. Jam session from
f 11.30pm in the Mambo
Room.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton
Highland Hotel. North
3 Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm.
£5. Saxophonists Andrew Speight (alto) and Russell Cowieson (tenor) lead their quartets. Jam session from midnight.
I McEwans’s 80/- Pub
Trail See Mon 8.
WEDNESDAY 10
I Masterclass with Andrew Speight Queen‘s Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. Midday. £2.50. Second in the series focuses on the saxOphone and improvisation.
I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Jazz
i America day. with pianist
Butch Thompson and The Golden Eagles Jazz Band. I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 3pm.
£2.50. Strictly traditional.
with US visitors The Hot
Cats and The Golden
Eagles Jam Band.
I The Blue Hote Minus One Club. Carlton
. Highland Hotel. North
Bridge. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. With Bill Kyle’s
JanBase. I The Music Box Victoria
Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm. £5. Pianist Dick Hyman and veteran trumpeter Ooc Cheatham lead the bill.
I George Shearing
Festival Theatre. 13/29
Nicolson Street. 529
6000. 8pm. £8—£15. Born ' congenitally blind in
London. the pianist went
on to establish himself as
an international jazz star
ill America. See preview.
i I The Cotton Club The
Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Jazz America day continues with mainstream stars
Scott Hamilton, Warren
Vache and Kenny Oavem, and veteran trumpeter Ooc Cheatham, Jam session from 1 1.30pm in the
Mambo Room.
I The Blue Hote Minus
One Club. Carlton
Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Excellent double bill. with the brilliant Kevin MacKenzie Ouartet featuring Julian Arguelles and Steve Watts, followed by singer Melanie O’Reilly exploring a new Celtic-influenced
direction. Jam session
from midnight. I McEwans’s BO/- Pub Trail See Mon 8.
Kenny Oavern, see Wed 10
20 The List 29 July—1 1 August 1994