JAZZ AT THE FESTIVAL

JAZZ - LATEST REVIEWS

• Niki King /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  This was an evening about Billie Holiday, but more than that it was an evening about Niki King's love of Billie Holiday;...2010-08-07»
• Alvin Youngblood Hart /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  Star of the show Hart launched into several well-judged blues numbers, before playing an excellent version of Rory...2010-08-04»
• Brian Auger's Oblivion Express /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  The 'Oblivion Express' logo shows a train speeding to infinity, which is appropriate, since this outfit's a perpetual-mo...2010-08-04»
• Canned Heat – Woodstock Reunited Band /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  They had a particularly slow start but once they'd warmed up Canned Heat began to exhibit the chops that had got them...2010-08-04»
• Daniel Erdmann and Francis Le Bras + Phil Bancroft and Jorrit Dijkstra: Daniel and Francis /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  The French/German pair weren't focused this evening. Preceded by the saxophone duet of Bancroft and Dijkstra, they...2010-08-04»
• Daniel Erdmann and Francis Le Bras + Phil Bancroft and Jorrit Dijkstra: Phil and Jorrit /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  The opening set of the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival 2010 was relaxed and friendly and the saxophonist pair clearly...2010-08-04»
• Emile Parisien Quartet /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  A flurry of jagged notes. A crashing piano. A twitchy French front-man. In the first few moments, this performance...2010-08-04»
• Eric Alexander /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  The pace of the night was set in the first bar when Eric Alexander crashed into a torrential version of Cheesecake by...2010-08-04»
• Fat Sam's Band /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  Band-leader Hamish McGregor took great pleasure in deflowering Assembly's "virginal venue" - the glitzy new Spiegel in...2010-08-04»
• Festival Of Swing /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  On brass were Bob Wilber, Joe Temperley, Scott Hamilton, Alan Barnes, Duke Heitger and Howard Alden, and the evening's...2010-08-04»
• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  They're a crew of brothers from "the south side of the west side of Chicago" whose father, the musician Philip Cohran,...2010-08-04»
• Jon Cleary: Piano, Bass & Drums /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  There is something magical about the meld of Latin, Jazz, Funk and R&B in the New Orleans sound and Jon Cleary's band...2010-08-04»
• Laura Macdonald and Martina Almgren Oh Yeah! /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  In a set full of feeling, Scottish favourite Laura Macdonald and Swedish treasure Martina Almgren, joined by some of...2010-08-04»
• Orchestre National de Jazz /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  Interpreting the songs of Billie Holiday, the French National Jazz Institution delighted the audience at the Hub last...2010-08-04»
• Samuel Hällkvist Center /Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
  If Attention Deficit Disorder needs a soundtrack, Samuel Hällkvist is the man to see. His wandering mind has produced a...2010-08-04»
• The Bays /Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
  The Bays are still an enigma when it comes to describing their sound. They don't just improvise electronica, as their...2010-08-04»