Listen online, stream and download the Soulsville Sings The Blues podcast on Radio Magnetic for the best in blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and more. Soulsville is also a monthly club night at Edinburgh’s Bongo Club.

DJ Tsatsu presents the very first episode of Soulsville Sings The Blues, playing his selection of blues, rhythm & blues, rock n roll and more from the first half of the 20th century, with tracks from Bo Diddley, Howlin Wolf, Slim Harpo and Little Esther.

Tracklist

1. Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton – Hound Dog
2. Little Walter – It Ain’t Right
3. Howlin’ Wolf – Just Like I Treat You
4. Little Esther – Hollerin’ and Screamin’
5. Lonnie the Cat – I Ain’t Drunk
6. Call the Police – Jimmie Lunceford
7. The Larks – Who Walks in When I Walk out
8. Slim Harpo – I’m a King Bee
9. Bo Diddley – I Love You So
10. Dale Hawkins – Suzie Q
11. Tarheel Slim – Number Nine Train
12. Josh White – Jerry
13. Silver Quintette – Sinners Crossroads

Download and stream exclusive new tracks every day on Radio Magnetic.

New track from new Ghostly International signing, Shigeto. The title track from the producer’s forthcoming sophomore LP due for release at the end of January.

Shigeto – Lineage

We predict big things from Shigeto in 2012. Keep an eye on him!

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Download and stream exclusive new tracks every day on Radio Magnetic.

Free download of this excellent track that features on Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat‘s Everything’s Getting Older LP, released earlier in the year on Chemikal Underground and definitely one of our top picks of 2011.

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – A Short Song To The Moon by Chemikal Underground

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Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow play the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh on Sunday 1 October. The gig marks the first of three live appearances in the Scottish capital, playing the following nights at the monthly Acoustic Edinburgh and Secret CDs events. We recommend you try and catch them live.

The Edinburgh gigs follow on from the well received summer tour the band completed showcasing tracks from debut album Nature’s Pace. The music of Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow uniquely combines soul, folk and ambient electronica with Hillary’s soft and hypnotic vocals. They’ve recently been signed by TCF Records in the UK and their next album Love will be released by the label in 2012.

If you’re already a fan, you can request for a particular song to be played ahead of the gigs, by emailing roberthillary@yahoo.co.uk.

Watch the video for Take It Slow, above, taken from Nature’s Pace. If you visit the Bob Hillary and the Massive Mellow website you can also download tracks from the album absolutely free.

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This month Platform, one of Glasgow’s finest arts venues brings you this year’s Eastern Promise event, an exciting two day music festival running from the Friday 30 September to Sat 1 October.

Bringing you a diverse programme of unique and interesting international and UK bands for the second year running. Friday’s genre defying line up features English folk singer Nancy Elizabeth, Scotland’s own 7VWWVW and Withered Hand, who will be performing unplugged, as well as Smalltown Supersound signed, Scandinavian experimental jazz band, The Thing. Headlining on Friday, German post-rockers Tarwater – an instrumental duo featuring Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok.

Saturday’s line up is brought alive by the electronic beats of Animal Magic Tricks and Conquering Animal Sound, who take to the stage fresh from their recent T Break Stage appearance at T in the Park 2011. Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Silje Nes and local indie legends The Pastels will be there too. Saturday’s headline act will see Tarwater‘s Ronald Lippok take to the stage again with Berlin based post punk infused techno outfit To Rococo Rot.

There will be a Scottish Independent Record Fair on the Saturday night to top it all off. We assure you, this will be a really great festival. And, a total bargain at £15 for both days.

Doors open from 7pm and a bus will run from Monorail at 6.30pm

WEEKEND TICKETS: £15 / £10 Local Links / £5 under 16s
DAY TICKETS: £10 / £6 Local Links / £3 under 16s

Available from:

Platform Box Office: 0141 276 9696 (OPTION 1)
Tickets Scotland and in person in Monorail.

In this second Glasgow Jazz Festival Podcast episode, we feature an engaging conversation between The Herald‘s art editor, Keith Bruce and iconic and prolific Scottish jazz vocalist, Fionna Duncan.

They discuss, Fionna presenting the award for best jazz singer at this year’s festival, an accolade she herself was awarded in 2010. They also chat about Fionna Duncan‘s amazing career as a singer and teacher.

Fionna also talks about some of the most memorable tours, events, experiences, collaborations and projects throughout her career.

The music featured in this podcast was:

The Ryan Quigley Big Band – Buzzy Bee

The Glasgow Jazz Festival takes place between Wednesday 29 June to Sunday 3 July in venues across the city.

You can find all the podcast episodes from last year and this year’s festival on the Glasgow Jazz Festival SoundCloud channel and at radiomagnetic.com/glasgowjazzfest

For full information and all event listings visit: jazzfest.co.uk

And to keep up to date with all things jazz fest join the Facebook page or search for Glasgow Jazz Festival on Twitter.

Experimental Jazz and Noise Group Zu bring their experimental instrumental live performance to Glasgow’s Platform venue on Friday 1 July 2011, as part of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival.

The Rome based trio have been together for nearly 15 years and in that time have recorded an staggering 14 albums and played well over 1,000 gigs. As well as having Shellac‘s Steve Albini engineer their 2002 album Igneo, his bandmate Bob Weston recorded its follow-up Radiale, with the latter in particular receiving critical acclaim upon its release.

The respect for Zu’s music and dedicated work ethic can be seen in the calibre of musicians they have collaborated with over the years including Fugazi‘s Joe Lally, Mike Patton, The Melvins and Damo Suzuki.

Tickets £10 or £7 local links and under 16s.

Tickets are available from platform-online.co.uk or on 0141 276 9696

Tickets available from Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Platform’s box office.

Keep up to date with our exclusive Glasgow Jazz Festival previews and coverage too.

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Mulatu Astatke is acknowledged as the father of Ethio Jazz, a melding of latin rhythms, traditional Ethiopian music, jazz, pop, reggae, elements of instrument-based disco and African dance music with lots and lots of funk. Sounds pretty good, eh? We think so, and highly recommend his gig as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival on Thursday 30 June.

Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York and Boston where he was the first African student at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. After a brief period recording in New York he returned to Ethiopia where he found Addis Ababa had flourished into a cosmopolitan and vibrant city. Here he immersed himself in the music scene combining his newly discovered knowledge of jazz with the traditional Ethiopian melodies of his formative years.

Largely unknown in the west, this changed with the release of Ethiopiques 4 on French label, Buda Musiques which showcased his prodigious and expansive talents. His music was used as the score for Jim Jarmusch’s 2005 film Broken Flowers thereby bringing Mulatu’s music to a new generation of music fans. The ever-impressive Strut Records have also aided in the recent resurgence of interest in the work of Mulatu Astatke, with the releases of  a handful of wonderful compilations showcasing the pioneering music he has made, as a solo artist as well as with a range of superb musicians including The Heliocentrics, as well as a brand new LP in 2010, entitled Mulatu Steps Ahead. The title says it all for us but come and see him for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.

Mulatu Astatke plays a very special gig at Platform, in Glasgow, as part of the 2011 Glasgow Jazz Festival on Thursday 30 June.

Tickets are available from platform-online.co.uk or on 0141 276 9696

Tickets also available at Monorail, Kings Court, SEE Tickets and Ticket Scotland.

Return buses on the night from Mono Bar – tickets only £4 from Monorail or on the bus.

For the gig, local links and under 16′s £10. Normal tickets £14.

Keep up to date with our exclusive Glasgow Jazz Festival previews and coverage too.

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In this first episode, we chat to four of the integral members of the Glasgow Jazz Festival team.

Festival Director, Jill Rodger, Production Manager, Raymond Wilson, Marketing and Press manager, Alison Mussett and Festival Assistant, Rachel Grimes all chat about their individual roles, the history and evolution of Glasgow’s longest running music festival, the venues used throughout the city, some anecdotes from previous years and some of their personal picks from this year’s fantastic line-up.

There’s also music from Brass Jaw, Mulatu Atsatke, Ramsey Lewis, Gilad Atzmon and The Andreas Varday Quartet.

The Glasgow Jazz Festival takes place between Wednesday 29 June to Sunday 3 July in venues across the city.

You can find all the podcast episodes from last year and this year’s festival on the Glasgow Jazz Festival SoundCloud channel and at radiomagnetic.com/glasgowjazzfest

For full information and all event listings visit: jazzfest.co.uk

And to keep up to date with all things jazz fest join the Facebook page or search for Glasgow Jazz Festival on Twitter.

A very special tribute paying respect to the pioneering and ground-breaking artist, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed away on Friday 27 May 2011, on Entropy this week. A bona fide legend of a human being who had a prolific career which included at the very least, ten superb albums.

His prolific and diverse nature saw his records delve through and explore soul, funk, jazz, poetry, blues and many of these genres’ offshoots and sub-genres; almost always with a questioning awareness and subversive commentary on the social and political environment of the US at the time, particularly poverty, the plight of African Americans and the oppressed in general.

We hope you enjoy this retrospective of the great poet and musician’s life and music, presented by Andy Watt.

Rest in Peace Gil Scott-Heron.

Tracklist

1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Flying Dutchman
2. Whitey on the Moon – Flying Dutchman
3. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Flying Dutchman
4. Lady Day and John Coltrane – Flying Dutchman
5. Free Will – Flying Dutchman
6. The Bottle – Strata East
7. Ain’t No Such Thing as a Superman – Arista
8. Winter in America – Arista
9. Johannesberg – Arista
10. Home is Where the Hatred Is – White
11. New York City – Arista
12. We Almost Lost Detroit – Arista
13. Race Track in France – Arista
14. Angel Dust – Arista
15. Shut ‘Em Down – Arista
16. The Train From Washington – Arista
17. Inner City Blues – Arista
18. Blue Collar – Arista
19. Spirits – TVT
20. New York Is Killing Me – XL
21. Peace Go With You Brother – Strata East