Posts Tagged ‘jazz’
The next Tune Up Tour taking place across Scotland features the acclaimed Ryan Quigley and his Big Band who are joined by solo artist and frontman with Scottish rockers, Del Amitri, Justin Currie. We catch up with Ryan and Justin for a chat about the tour.
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The latest exclusive live session from The Kelburn Garden Party 2009 is from Edinburgh based, Gol. The band create a unique sound by crossing musical boundaries between East and West informed by jazz, world, pop and electronica.
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Their pedigree may include The Verve, Blur, The Orb, Paul McCartney and Gorillaz… but Jim Gellatly finds out just what’s so special about Erland & The Carnival.
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We catch up with John Somerville from the Treacherous Orchestra for a chat about the forthcoming Tune Up Tour. Here John chats about what the band have been up to recently and what to expect from the Orchestra’s live performances.
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The Graeme Stephen Septet features some of the most creative and in demand musicans on the UK folk and jazz scenes. Catch them on the Tune Up Tour 2010 across Scotland.
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We kick off our series of fortnightly live sessions from the Kelburn Garden Party with this recording of experimental and down-tempo cheeky monkey Bonobo.
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Award winning guitarist Simon Thacker leads The Nava Rasa Ensemble for the second of 2009’s Tune Up Tours entitled, Inner Octaves. A powerful and innovative programme exploring the meeting of Asian and Western cultures.
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Team Little Rock’s second tune battle. Kid Ritalin steps into the ring more to trade tunes and insults with Tokamak’s drummer, before lapsing into the brutality of Metallica and Ultimate Thrush.
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DJ Astroboy is Edinburgh-based DJ/promoter behind global beat institution Departure Lounge and soul/funk session Four Corners. Here’s his Astrojazz mixtape.
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Legendary Ornette Coleman is this years curate for the Jazz music festival, Meltdown, which is on now in Southbank, London until Sunday 21st June.
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