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