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11pm. £2 (£1). Mix of rock, jazz, blues and funk from this four-piece powered by drummer Jordie Gilmour. Tuesday 21
Glasgow ■ Gus Stirrat Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £3. Monthly jazz sounds with Gus Stirrat and guests. Edinburgh ■ The Six O’Clock Blues The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. Live acoustic blues from John Hunt and friends. FREE Steve Tyler Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. Classical jazz guitar. ■ Great Jazz Jam Session The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £2 (£1). Expect a rich mix of styles as faces old and new drop in to perform with the House Trio each week. ■ Tuesday Heartbreak Live Funkout The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). Guitarist Aki Remally leads this funk band.
Wednesday 22
Glasgow FREE Mono Jazz Christmas Special Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street, 553 2400. 8pm. Swinging Christmas special packed with yuletide cheer and free mince pies featuring house band Lorne Cowieson, Euan Stevenson, Andy Sharkey and Jim Drummond. Edinburgh FREE Interplay Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. Featuring guitarist Lachlan MacColl and guests. ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 16. ■ Mike Kearney Ka-Tet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). Talented piano player/vocalist Kearney leads this funk/blues five-piece.
East Kilbride ■ Swinging Christmas Winter Warmers - The Andy Mears Jazz Orchestra East Kilbride Village Theatre, Maxwell Drive, 01355 248669. 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £14. The 16-piece Andy Mears Jazz Orchestra lays out a mix of seasonal big band and swing tunes.
Thursday 23
Glasgow FREE Dias Brazil Boteco do Brasil, 62 Trongate, 548 1330. 7.30pm. See Sun 19. Edinburgh FREE Ged Brockie & Doug Urquhart Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. Jazz guitar duo. ■ Jazz Bar Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Cool swinging jazz from the house trio on piano, bass and drums.
Friday 24
Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 23. ■ Late’n’Live The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm–3am. £5 (£3). See Fri 17. Sunday 26
Edinburgh ■ Singers’ Night The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Featuring ex-Edinburgh jazz vocalist Louise Dodds for this special
Boxing Day show. ■ The Sunday Night Sinners The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Sun 19. Monday 27
Glasgow FREE Dias Brazil Brel, 39–43 Ashton Lane, 342 4966. 6pm. See Sun 19. Edinburgh FREE Ron Carruthers Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. See Mon 20. ■ Glamour & The Baybes The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Mon 20.
Tuesday 28
Edinburgh ■ The Six O’Clock Blues The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Tue 21. FREE Steve Tyler Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. See Tue 21. ■ Great Jazz Jam Session The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £2 (£1). See Tue 21. ■ Tuesday Heartbreak Live Funkout The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Tue 21.
Wednesday 29
Glasgow ■ Live Jazz Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, 42 Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. A mixture of standards and originals played on guitar, drums and saxophone. FREE Cosmopolitan Big Band Café Source, 1 St Andrew’s Square, 548 6020. 9pm. Jazz standards, funk and soul from this 18-piece big band featuring vocals from Rachel Lightbody. Edinburgh FREE Fraser Urquhart Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. Relaxing piano. ■ Mike Kearney Ka-Tet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Wed 22.
Saturday 1 Edinburgh FREE Scotland’s Number Ones Mound Square, off Princes Street, 0844 894 2011. 2–4.45pm. Exclusive performance form some of Scotland’s award winning folk and jazz acts including BBC Radio 2 ‘Best Group’ Folk Award Winners Lau; Radio 2 ‘Best Folk Singer’ Award Winners Julie Fowlis; BBC Radio Jazz Award Winner ‘Best Instrumental’/’Best Album’ Brian Kellock; Scotland’s No 1 Pipeband Boghall & Bathgate Pipe Band; the Scottish Guitar Quartet and BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Young Traditional Musician of the Year’ Daniel Thorpe. Part of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. ■ World Premiere Quintet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). A different selection of five leading jazz players come together for each session with no rehearsal. ■ Late’n’Live The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm–3am. £5 (£3). See Fri 17. Featuring Latino funkers Das Contras.
Sunday 2
Glasgow FREE Blues Jam Bobar, 383 Byres Road, 339 8811. 9pm. See Sun 19. Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 16. FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, Charlotte Square, 225 8674. 8pm. See Sun 19. ■ The Sunday Night Sinners The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Sun 19.
Monday 3 Edinburgh ■ Glamour & The Baybes The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Mon 20.
Thursday 30 Tuesday 4
Edinburgh FREE Desafinado Henderson’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, 225 2131. 7pm. See Thu 16. ■ Special Jazz Bar Sextet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Cool modern jazz with a three horn frontline, including trombonist Brian Keddie. ■ The Freaky Family The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). Organic hip hop and jazzy grooves.
Friday 31 Edinburgh FREE Jazz Bar Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 3pm. See Thu 23. ■ Jazz Bar Hogmanay Party The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm–5am. £18 (£16). Night of jazz and hot funk to see in the bells featuring three live bands (soul/blues vocalist William Young; funk drummer Paul Mill’s Mind Excursion and quirky pop from The Banana Sessions) and a selection of DJs for a funky start to 2011. ■ Departure Lounge Hogmanay Carnival The Caves, Niddry Street South, 557 8989. 10pm–5am. £20. Another full blown world music jazz party as DL take over the Caves for another Hogmanay with live music from Rumba Caliente Afro-Latin Orchestra, Horndog Brass Band and Edinburgh Samba School not forgetting DJ sets form Astroboy, Jiminez, Mr Zimbabwe and DJ Wastepicker. The second Cave rocks to funky hip hop and bass with
Edinburgh ■ The Six O’Clock Blues The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Tue 21. ■ Great Jazz Jam Session The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £2 (£1). See Tue 21. ■ Tuesday Heartbreak Live Funkout The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Tue 21.
Wednesday 5 Edinburgh ■ Leah Gough-Cooper/Joe Wright Band The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). High energy contemporary jazz from two of Scotland’s leading young saxophonists. ■ Mike Kearney Ka-Tet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). See Wed 22.
Thursday 6 Edinburgh ■ The Freaky Family The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11pm. £2 (£1). Organic hip hop and jazzy grooves.
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Thursday 16
Glasgow ■ Martin Stephenson and■ Ken Brady Woodend Tennis & Bowling Club, Chamberlain Road, 229 1442. 8pm. £tbc. Daintees frontman Stephenson (and guests) entertains with a combination of guitar picking, waltzes, swinging country, folk pop songs and comic tales. Falkirk ■ Skerryvore Falkirk Town Hall, West Bridge Street, 01324 506850. 8pm. £12 (£10.50). Pipes, accordion and fiddle mixed with standard rock instrumentation as the ‘boy band of Scottish traditional music’ plays live. 01324 506850
Stirling ■ New Rope String Band Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 8pm. £12 (£10). Skilled acoustic musicians/comedians with a very entertaining Pythonesque melodic humour play tracks from their new album, Myoosik.
Friday 17
Glasgow ■ Iain Morrison & Band Captain’s Rest, Great Western Road, 332 7304. 8pm. £9. Hebridean singer-songwriter and piper with his new indie/folk line- up. ■ Martin Stephenson & The Daintees The Accies Club, Helensburgh Drive Jordanhill. 8pm. £tbc. Stephenson and his band entertain with songs from his latest album as well as Daintees classics at this Christmas concert. The Buff Club’s Christmas Ceilidh The Buff Club, 142 Bath Lane, 248 1777. 9pm. £5 includes entry to The Buff Club all night. Full on Scottish ceilidh with live music from Angus Haggis.
Edinburgh ■ Andy Abraham, Don Campbell, SiMBA and■ Flyboyz The HMV Picture House, Lothian Road, 0844 847 1740. 6pm. £15 (VIP £20). A ‘Fabulous Christmas 2010 Cultural Nite For All Nations’ with X-Factor star Abrahams and reggae legend Campbell plus the Asanta African Dance group, Rotating Hipsters, break dancers Steps of Style and DJ Fabuloz and Easybee. ■ Ceilidhs at the Merlin The Merlin, Morningside Road, Southside, 447 4329. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dance open to all, with music from the Canongate Cadjers. An experienced caller will lead first-timers through their steps. FREE Tom Oakes & Kathryn Nicoll Captains Bar, South College Street. 8.30pm. Classy traditional music on fiddle, flute and guitar. Dunfermline ■ Runrig Alhambra Theatre, Canmore Street, 01383 740384. 7pm. £23.50. Popular Celtic rockers, fusing Gaelic and English themes with standard rock.
Peebles ■ Arabic Dance Night Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre, Eastgate, 01721 725777. 7.30pm. £10; under 12s £5. Fun family celebration of dance, including belly dancing, with professional and student performances in Egyptian, Cabaret and Tribal Fusion styles.
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