Here’s hoping your Christmas and New Year is as hip and swinging as Dexter Gordon…… more →
Byas'd Opinionwrote 2 months ago: The young American rapper, singer, and songwriter claims Stone Rose sabotaged her performance at the … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Here’s hoping your Christmas and New Year is as hip and swinging as Dexter Gordon… … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Dave Brubeck, one of the most original and popular jazz musicians since the Second World War, died t … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Recital Room, City Halls Wednesday 21st November 2012 Pianist Dan Tepfer had already been in the Rec … more →
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wrote 6 months ago: Away back in the late 70s, in the days when I was first getting seriously interested in jazz, there … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Sad news. The great free jazz tenor player David S Ware died on Thursday aged only 62. He’d be … more →
wrote 10 months ago: The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with guest Randy Brecker can be heard on Radio 3′s Jazz L … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The Mansion House, Glassford Street, 8pm For a year or so, it looked as if Thursday was jazz night i … more →
wrote 1 year ago: As in its first week, there’s little out-and-out jazz at Celtic Connections over the next few … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Glasgow Art Club, 19 January 2012 When David Berkman last played Glasgow, the thing which stuck out … more →
wrote 1 year ago: American pianist David Berkman is playing a couple of gigs in Scotland this week, at the Jazz Bar in … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Fed up with the usual Christmas songs? Here’s a less-known one, sung by Etta James (who’ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Alan Steadman, who presents the jazz programme on Radio Tay, and runs the gigs at Hospitalfield near … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Glasgow Art Club, 1 December 2011 What we got from Secret Architecture on Thursday night was, in som … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Funding issues have meant that the Thursday night series of gigs at Glasgow Art Club has been very i … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the Scotland’s main events for anyone interested in improvised avant-garde music takes … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Drummer Paul Motian died earlier today, aged 80. He came to prominence in the late 50s as one third … more →
wrote 1 year ago: If he hadn’t knackered his liver through drink and drug abuse in his younger days, it’s … more →