LISTINGS EDINUBGH JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL

Tommy Whittle,

THURSDAY 11

I Masterclass with John Etherldge Queen's Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. Midday. £2.50. Guitar comes under the microscope in the final session. I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. The Bill Wells Octet in a session titled From Ellington :0 Evans. I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. Focus on blues. with Fraser Spiers's Blues Cruisers and guest Suzanne Bonnar. I The Blue Note Minus One Club. Carlton Highland Hotel. North Bridge. 220 1599. 3pm. £2.50. With the Eddie Severn Quartet. I The Music Box Victoria Street. 220 1599. 7.30pm. £5. Mainly traditional. plus the more modemJohn Etheridge Trio. I International Gala Concert Queen's Hall. South Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £12. £9. The festival‘s traditonal gala concert offers a strong line-up and a look at jazz styles from the 20s to the 50s. with on-stage activities masterminded by pianist Dick Hyman. Featured artists are trumpeter Doc Cheatharn (see preview). clarinetist Kenny oavern, saxophonist Scott liarnilton, cometist Warren Vache. and pianist Butch Thompson (who found a new mass audience for his music as house pianist for Garrison Keillor‘s hugely popular radio series A Prairie Home Companion in the USA). Horne-based singer Fionna Duncan will perform a tribute to the songwriter Irving Berlin. with trumpeter Dave Pinardl and the Brian Kellocit Trio. I The Cotton Club The Cavendish. Tollcross. 220 1599. 8pm. £5. Clarinetist Kenny cavern leads a sextet with trumpeter Dave Pinardl. Jam session

5 from 11.30pm in the ; Mambo Room. I The Blue Note Minus l One Club. Carlton 6 Highland Hotel. North 5 Bridge. 220 1599. 8pm. } £5. Exploratory music from the Chick Lyall Quartet and the Bill Wells ; Octet. Jam session from midnight. I McEwans’s 80/- Pub Trail See Mon 8.

I Edinburgh International Blues Festival Caledonian

- Brewery. Slateford Road.

. 7.30pm. £10. The

programme for this event

- has not been too exciting in recent times. but there are a couple of genuinely

intriguing headliners this

3 year and the support looks

better than it has been for i a while. Tonight’s bill-

! topper is ex-Bluesbreaker ' and Rolling Stone Mick

! Taylor, with an all-star

i band featuring loot

Money. Also on the bill are Lightning Willie and the Poor Boys from

Dick Wardell, and The

Bootsie Tootsie Band.

I McEwans’s 80/- Pub ; Trail See Mon 8.

California. singer—guitarist

SATURDAY 13

I Edinburgh International Blues Festival Caledonian Brewery. Slateford Road. 12.30pm. £4. The afternoon session features four Scottish bands. led by Rev Doc and the Congregation, plus Spider MacKenzle and Dick Banovich, Bop Street, and

I lied Green‘s Blues Band.

I Edinburgh

International Blues

Festival Caledonian

, Brewery. Slateford Road.

7.30pm. £10. Tonight's

i bill-topper is guitarist and : singer larry McCray, but

, the most intriguing item is l a new band put together

see TueB.

by singer Suzanne Bonner, featuring ace musicians who are better known on the jazz circuit notably

' Chick Lyall and Nigel

Clark - playing in a blues

idiom. with guest Fraser

Spiers on harmonica.

Moio Pep and last year‘s

blues competition winners (see Sun 14) The

: Summerlield Blues Band complete the action.

I Edinburgh International Blues

Festival Caledonian . Brewery. Slateford Road. ~ 12.30pm. £4. The second

Scottish Blues Band

Competition will be

fought out by four

entrants. The Federal Kings, Blue 62, Baby

Isaac and 32-20.

7 I Edinburgh

International Blues

3 Festival Caledonian

Brewery. Slateford Road.

7.30pm. £10. Mississippi-

born harmonica man Charley Musselwhite (see 1 preview) and his band are

tonight's bill-toppers. The rest of the programme

. calls on home-grown

talent. with Fraser Spiers’s Blues Cruisers,

guitarist Jim Condie‘s

j new band The Kings oi

E the Wild Frontier, and The ' Hollywood Rockets.

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