MUSIC | Jazz Tuesday 17
Glasgow FREE Slouch Jazz Slouch, 203–205 Bath Street, 221 5518. 9pm. Live jazz quartet featuring Gringo Cholo and guests. Wednesday 18
Edinburgh ■ Lorna Reid The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Cool and classy local vocalist singing songs from the likes of Rogers & Hart to Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Thursday 19 Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Jazz four-piece.
Friday 20 Edinburgh ■ Fat Suit The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Saxophonist Scott Murphy leads this 15-piece big band through jazz funk fusion. ■ 101st Airbourne The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). Jazz and funk with a Hendrix twist from guitarist Aki Remally and his four-piece band.
Hamilton ■ Christmas Party Night featuring Big Vern & The Shootahs The Town House, 102 Cadzow Street, 01698 452299. 7pm– 1am. £42.50. See Fri 13.
Saturday 21 Hamilton ■ Christmas Party Night featuring Big Vern & The Shootahs The Town House, 102 Cadzow Street, 01698 452299. 7pm– 1am. £42.50. See Fri 13.
Sunday 22
Edinburgh FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8pm. Hosting a Sound of Seventeen Big Band Christmas party. ■ William Young The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). US soul/jazz/blues vocalist.
Monday 23 Edinburgh ■ Paul Kirby Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Trio led by pianist Kirby, featuring Graeme Stephen on bass and Chris Wallace on drums.
Tuesday 24
Edinburgh FREE Guitars Akimbo The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 9pm. Guitar action from Aki Remally and Tom Davis.
Thursday 26 Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). Jazz four-piece playing this Boxing Day special. ■ Future Heroes The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £3 (£2). Boxing Day funk party.
Friday 27 Glasgow 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
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Sunday 5
Edinburgh ■ Tom Davis Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Cool modern jazz from guitarist Davis. FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8pm. Singer Martin Waugh guests.
Wednesday 8
Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 19.
Thursday 9 Edinburgh ■ 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 10
Edinburgh ■ The Jazz Bar Quintet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). See Fri 27. ■ The Blueswater The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). The Edinburgh-based collective performs rhythm’n’blues, funk, soul and rock’n’roll. Sunday 12
Edinburgh ■ Roots Showcase The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Roots, R&B and blues from Toby of Black Diamond Express and friends. FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8pm. Expect Dixieland jazz from the New Phoenix Jazz Band.
Wednesday 15 Edinburgh ■ Brodie Jarvie Septet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £7 (£5). Explosive, creative jazz influenced by the likes of The Bad Plus, Duke Ellington and Bon Iver, from Glasgow bassist Brodie Jarvie and his septet.
Thursday 16 Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 9.
Friday 17 Edinburgh ■ Electric Jazz Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Jazz/funk fusion from Marco Cafolla.
Friday 3 Sunday 19
Edinburgh ■ Head2Head The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Graham Robb and Bill Kyle’s jazz sextet that emerged from the ashes of their highly successful jazz rock fusion outfit Head. ■ The Dana Dixon Blues Band The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). Dana Dixon (vocals, harmonica) leads her band in a session of urban blues.
Saturday 4 Edinburgh ■ The Foo Birds The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). Funk, soul and jazz by the Edinburgh-based band.
Glasgow FREE Blue Lane Blackfriars, 36 Bell Street, 552 5924. 9pm. See Sun 29. Edinburgh FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8pm. Joined by young vocalist Crawford McInally-Kier.
Wednesday 22 Edinburgh ■ Paul Kirby Trio The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £7 (£5). Trio led by pianist Kirby, featuring Graeme Stephen on bass and Chris Wallace on drums. Joined by New York saxophonist Jim Snidero.
EDWYN COLLINS The former Orange Juice frontman continues to go from strength to strength, playing tracks from his new album at this intimate Mono show (rescheduled from the Art School, please note change of venue), after headlining Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles party in Edinburgh the day before. See Christmas parties round-up, page 95. To win tickets to the Glasgow show, see page 101. ■ Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles, Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh, Sat 14 Dec; Mono, Glasgow, Sun 15 Dec.
featuring vocals from Rachel Lightbody. Tuesday 31
Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Hogmanay Party The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 9pm–5am. £19 (£16). Night of jazz, soul and funk to see in the bells featuring the Jazz Bar Party Quintet with guest vocalist Debbie Davis, plus DJs until 5am.
Wednesday 1 Edinburgh ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 19.
Thursday 2 Edinburgh ■ Alison Affleck & Vieux Carre The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £5 (£4). Energetic hot jazz from this five-piece with singer Affleck.
Edinburgh ■ Blues’n’Trouble The Bongo Club, 66 Cowgate, 558 8844. 7pm. £12.50. Hard rockin’ blues action from Scotland’s answer to the Blues Brothers. ■ The Union The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). James Brown-style high energy funk/soul. Saturday 28
Edinburgh ■ The Banjo Lounge Four The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 11.30pm. £5 (£4). Lounge versions of pop tunes played in redneck jazz style on the five-string banjo. Stirling ■ Blues’n’Trouble Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 8pm. £10. See Fri 27.
Sunday 29
Glasgow FREE Blue Lane The Lismore, 206 Dumbarton Road, 576 0103. 5–6pm. Quintet with tenor/guitar front line playing well-known tunes by the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk. Edinburgh FREE Whatever Next Café Grande, 184 Bruntsfield Place, 228 1188. 7pm. Live Sunday jazz session. ■ Jazz Bar Quartet The Jazz Bar, 1 Chambers Street, 220 4298. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Thu 19. FREE The Whighams Jazz Club Whighams Wine Cellars, 13 Hope Street, 225 8674. 8pm. Pre-Hogmanay celebration of the 40s/50s jump jive vocalist with King Louis and the Primas.