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V2 Information: 0131 467 5200/ www.edinburghjazzfestival.com V9 Edinburgh Map Please note: on the day of a concert, we stop selling tickets at 4pm. They are then available 30 mins prior to the start time, direct from the All venues are unreserved unless marked with an R relevant venue. This does not apply to Hub concerts or Queen’s Hall, if calling venue box V1 The Hub* Castlehill, EH1 2NE R V10 Grassmarket* EH1 2JU offices direct. Magnificent converted church at the top Outdoor cobbled area under the shadow of the Royal Mile. Central tables flanked of the Castle. Mardi Gras: standing, Ticket Offers: by rows of seats plus gallery. Jazz Al Fresco: limited seating in front The Hub café: 0131 473 2067. of the stages. The Edinburgh Jazz Festival offers a student standby concession of £6 to all concerts V2 Queen's Hall* The Jazz Bar V11 1a Chambers Street, EH1 1HR (subject to availability) available on the door, Clerk Street, EH8 9JG R 14+ (early evening), 18+ (Jam Sessions) 30 mins before show start. Converted Georgian church. Central tables flanked by pews plus gallery. The classic basement jazz club. Kids under 16 go free to all concerts at The Hub and The Queen’s Hall (subject to availability. V3 Jamhouse* V12 St Cuthberts Church* 18+ Lothian Road, EH1 2EP Tickets only available from venue box office). Queen Street, EH2 1JE Attractive conversion of former BBC Imposing church with access from King Studios. Some central tables flanked Stables Road. by rows of seats. To book the gallery HMV Picture House* restaurant call 0131 226 4380 (with V13 31 Lothian Road, EH1 2DJ Hub Tickets booking reference). 14+ (early evening), 18+ (late nights) Assembly@Princes Street 1920s converted cinema with raised V4 Gardens* EH2 2EJ stage and several bars. Standing, A Spiegeltent on the site of Ross with limited seating in gallery. Bandstand with bar. Booths and rows of seating. The Caves SPECIAL OFFER V14 8-12 Niddry Street South, EH1 1NS 18+ Voodoo Rooms Unique club venue in the heart of the V5 19a West Register Street, EH2 2AA 18+ Old Town under vaulted ceilings. n If you buy tickets for 5 different shows 10% Standing (unless otherwise stated) Standing. we will give you a discount of Stylish, award winning bar. 20% Filmhouse* discount on food for ticket holders. n If you buy tickets for 10 different shows V15 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ we will give you a discount of 15% The Lot* Edinburgh's foremost independent V6 4-6 Grassmarket, EH1 2JU 14+ cinema. n If you buy tickets for 15 different shows Small, intimate jazz club with balcony. we will give you a discount of 20% Book pre-jazz dinners in The Bistro - on V16 The Botanics* EH3 5LR 0131 225 9924. Access one of the world's finest botanic gardens via the West Gate on Arboretum This offer is ONLY available for bookings made V7 Royal Overseas League* Place and collect the Naturally Inspired 100 Princes Street, EH2 3AB map for your voyage of discovery. through Hub Tickets: 0131 473 2000 and closes Intimate venue with unreserved seating on FRIDAY 23 JULY. (Not valid for Jam Session). in rows. Central Library V17 George IV Bridge, EH1 1EG Heriots Rugby Club* V8 Bangholm Terrace, EH3 5QN 14+ Attractive gallery space. Cabaret style seating with dancefloor. Presented in association with Edinburgh Jazz N Jive Club. Call 07505183118 for Accommodation Information: member tickets. Booking information: 14+ no admittance under 14 years old. Visit : Minto Hotel* V9 16-18 Minto Street, EH9 1RQ 18+ no admittance under 18 years old. www.visitscotland.com / 0845 22 55 121 Cabaret style seating in function room * disabled access of smart, friendly hotel. We’d like to make a few! We’ve invited friends old and new, from all over the world, and from right here in our home town, to join our annual celebration of the marvellous musics we call Jazz And Blues.

Our 32nd edition follows the tradition of presenting Samuel Hallkvist. Band of Eden, Eric Alexander, the best music we’ve heard; of welcoming new Tommy Smith, David Berkman, and Konrad names; of booking the musicians who give audiences Wiszniewski present many takes on modern jazz. the most enjoyment; of asking the musicians how Lizzard Lounge, Fat Sams Band and Melting Pot they might enjoy themselves the most. offer a great night out, while lovers of the dancefloor We especially like the buzz of making special things can move to Salsa Celtica or The Bays. happen. Those unique collaborations, special one-off Delving a little deeper - can we recommend the moments, and exciting and thrilling concerts which majesty of John Sneider’s playing; the offer an electric charge. magical trickery of Martin Taylor; the warmth in This year we celebrate 60 years of Edinburgh Jazz, Pat Halcox’s smiling horn; the always unexpected and we pay tribute to everyone who has contributed tangents of Joakim Milder’s soloing; the breathtaking over the years to making a jazz scene we all love. Fapy Lafertin; Charlie Musselwhite’s tight knit In his centenary year, we say thank you to the groove…we could go on and on. We love it all. We memory of Django Reinhardt, the first great hope you do too. European jazz musician. We salute the new French Jazz with a season of great concerts. Our Scottish Don’t forget the courses and the talks and the films Jazz Expo offers creative excitement across the jazz and the jam sessions. In fact, find out more about styles, and features the marvellous Edinburgh Jazz all the music and the musicians by visiting our Festival Orchestra. We welcome home Scotland’s website: www.edinburghjazzfestival.com. Or greatest jazz export, saxophonist, Joe Temperley, to check the coverage courtesy of our media partners: direct a Basie programme, and we look forward with The Scotsman. genuine thrill to hearing Colin Steele’s big band Please remember that what we do isn’t easy. A music. Stars of the future? Look out for our Breaking small number of people and institutions make this Ground series. wonderful event happen, and we could do much The programme overflows with talented musicians more if we grew a bit!. You could help us by joining producing brilliant and spontaneous music. Here are the team as a Champion or Sponsor of the Festival – just a few to start your journey of exploration of the or you could Volunteer to help us! 2010 Festival. Thanks are due to you, the audience, for making the If you like your music served in the classic style check Edinburgh Jazz And Blues Festival the success it is, out Bob Wilber, Antique Six, Chris Barber, or Jim and to our funders, sponsors, volunteers, producers Petrie. If vocals are your bag, China Moses and Curtis Stigers are new names for the Festival. Niki and Board members for helping to make our Festival and Freddie King, Carol Kidd and Todd Gordon are one of the best in . old favourites. In Blues we welcome Canned Heat, We very much hope you enjoy the Festival! King King and Eric Burdon. We travel to the edges of the music with Anthony Joseph, Refuge Trio, and Brian Fallon, Chair, EJBF

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Glenfiddich sampling Glenfiddich are offering customers to the Queen's Hall and Jamhouse an opportunity to sample some Glenfiddich - a fragrant malt which balances the fruitiness of peat with the richness of subtle oak. www.glenfiddich.co.uk Friday July Salsa Celtica 30 This is year three of the Scottish Jazz Expo, Freddie King: Milestones Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 a concert series that offers audiences the Big Band Info: 0131 467 5200 With special guest, chance to hear Scottish Jazz en fete. Queens Hall • 8.30pm • £16, STANDING www.edinburghjazzfestival.com Frank Perowsky Cuban and Latin American salsa meets traditional Scottish and Irish music. Salsa Scotland has some of the most vibrant and exciting jazz players The Hub • 8.30pm • £12.50 Celtica take time off from headlining a Jam Session • see page 23 in the world. The Festival gives them a platform to express Edinburgh's hipster male singer is constantly string of high profile European Festivals, themselves in a host of special events – with new projects, new travelling the globe, with his dark chocolate baritone to celebrate their 15th anniversary in their groups, new music. From Freddie King on Day One to Laura gracing night clubs and jazz bars wherever he goes. home town. The expanded band features MacDonald on Day Ten, there’s tradition in transition. Most Bebop, ballads, and blues are his trade, and warmth guest Cuban vocalists Ricardo Fernandez Festivals nowadays offer parades and showcases of pre-baked and good vibes are the results. Here’s a show that Pompa and Antonia Zappata Danger. creativity. In Edinburgh, you hear the creativity in the making sums up his life in music, taking in his love for Their stunning combination of energy and Johnny Hartman, Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine. and get to taste it fresh-minted. It’s the most exciting way to virtuosity creates irresistible dancefloor He’s got a 10 piece band, arranged with his long time rhythms and has seen them top the New hear jazz. On the spot. Shining new. Look out for the Expo friend and musical colleague, New York saxophonist emblem throughout the programme. Take it away, Freddie… York and LA salsa charts and many Frank Perowsky, MD for Liza Minnelli. European world music charts.

The Scottish Jazz Expo is made possible by funding from The Scottish Government, administered by The Scottish Arts Council. We salute their commitment to making new things happen in jazz in Scotland. Fat Sams Band Assembly@Princes Street The Rae Brothers Gardens • 8pm • £15 New Orleans Jazz Band Charismatic crooner and saxman Heriots Rugby Club • 8-11pm • £9 • 14+ Hamish McGregor fronts Scotland's premiere swing/jump jive band. George Lewis and Bunk Johnson are the inspirations Celebrating their twenty-fifth year for one of ’s finest exponents of classic New EDINBURGH JAZZ AT with foot-tapping, infectious, Orleans jazz. upbeat jazz and swing from the jive-talking, hip-swinging era. Edinburgh 1950 was an Alvin Youngblood Hart austere, grey, Presbyterian place, well depicted by Muriel Muscle Theory Spark. Into this very Jamhouse • 8pm • £12 • 18+ conservative and proper The Memphis guitarist and vocalist society on the south side, is one of the world’s leading new came a bunch of youngsters Daniel Erdmann and blues powers. Hard rockin’ electric who wanted to have fun. They Francis Le Bras + blues, southern boogie, country wanted to play Jazz. Sandy blues, with a deep soulful voice and Brown, Archie Semple, Alex Phil Bancroft and formidable guitar playing. From Welsh and Al Fairweather Hendrix to Gatemouth Brown. Both were amongst the most Jorrit Dijkstra Ben Harper and Eric Clapton dig prominent. Mike Hart, The Lot • 6pm • £10 • 14+ him. “The boy has got thunder in his Founder of this Festival, was hands” (Taj Mahal). The French pianist is steeped in the traditions of Bill Evans a key player. Almost This year’s Festival is packed and Keith Jarrett, while his German saxophone partner is overnight, they created a new with performances by our one of the most dynamic young players on the edgy and lasting jazz scene, which finest and best loved jazz German contemporary jazz scene. A fascinating mix. As is Lizzard Lounge 2010: remarkably, produced music musicians. We celebrate the the duo of two saxophone players, one from Edinburgh, and musicians of very high launch of a new Jazz Archive one from Boston USA. Romance and experiment. Fred Wesley and the new JBs, quality. at the Central Library, where Ty and Joe Malik Live, The Rumba In the 1980’s there was a there will be an exhibition of further explosion of talent. Edinburgh Jazz memorabilia Caliente Afro Latin Soul Orchestra (see Page 23). Come along to Tommy Smith, Phil Bancroft, Hosts: Joe Malik, Toby Shippey, Simon Hodge, Jim Bathgate Colin Steele, John Rae and our Scotsman Talk, where we Brian Kellock emerged with remember the early years. HMV Picture House • 10.30pm-3am • £15 • STANDING • 18+ amazing energy and talent. But, most importantly, look John Burgess A one-off celebration of Edinburgh's seminal Lizzard Lounge club. Kevin Mackenzie out for the big “60” and come Since then, there’s been a Special Quartet and create your own For three heady years in the 90’s, a devoted crowd packed into the crypt of constant stream of exciting Vital Signs Edinburgh Jazz celebration. The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ the Mansfield church to celebrate all things with a beat, Lizzard Lounge players enriching and Voodoo Rooms • 8.30pm • £10 • 18+ With your ongoing interest, The Edinburgh tenor saxophonist brought together an eclectic group of musicians, singers, rappers and artists changing Edinburgh Jazz. from all over the UK as well as legendary stars from around the world in a the Edinburgh jazz scene can has travelled the world building One of the most exciting amalgams of jazz and Audiences have grown and weekly dance floor service of appreciation to the best of jazz/funk/soul/ go on exciting and engaging reputations in and folk ever produced, this nine-piece blends jazz challenged the musicians to hip-hop/latin and everything else in between. harmonies with folk rhythms and melodies. us for decades to come. Europe for his big rounded sound; aspire to ever greater heights. his tough, punchy delivery and In 2010 the bill features live sets from the one and only Fred Wesley and the “The breadth of skills at guitarist MacKenzie's Edinburgh in 2010 can stand warm-hearted musical personality. new JB's representing the foundations of soul and funk music, London fingertips, honed by playing everything from tall as a small but important Look out for The Scotsman Tonight he plays standard tunes with Mercury nominated Hip-Hop artist Ty, Compost Recording artist and club traditional folk to leading-edge jazz, translate on international jazz centre of Edinburgh Jazz at 60 a crack international rhythm section. co-founder Joe Malik, and The Rumba Caliente Afro Latin Soul Orchestra with this large creative canvas into a cocktail of creative excellence. It’s time supplement - please see special guests. Hosted by Joe Malik and Toby Shippey with guests Simon textures, accents and allusions, from retro funk for us all – audiences and festival website for details. Hodge of the Craig Charles Soul and Funk show and Jim Bathgate of to drum'n'bass” (Scotsman). musicians – to celebrate 4Corners and Departure Lounge. Edinburgh Jazz. Saturday July Scotsman Talks 31 Edinburgh Jazz Fred Wesley Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 Traditions: The and the New JBs Info: 0131 467 5200 1950’s onwards Assembly@Princes Street Gardens www.edinburghjazzfestival.com The Hub • 11am-noon • £5 9pm • £15 John Burgess hosts a panel of The Godfather of Funk and Soul, musicians and experts to discuss musical director of the James Brown Jam Session • see page 23 what really happened in the Band in its heyday, partner of Maceo explosion of Jazz in Edinburgh in Parker and trombonist of distinction, the 50’s and why traditional jazz in Fred is Mr Funky. No-one does it better. Edinburgh was so good. With Mike He always delivers a funky good time. Hart, Graham Blamire, Kenny Milne, A steamy mix of jazz, R&B and hard Chick Murray and Jim Petrie. driving funk grooves, or as Fred says Free Events “100% funky stuff for party people”. The Festival always presents atmospheric and high quality music in outdoor, and free admission, events across the city.

This year, we have a mix of the traditional and the new. Today, The Mardi Gras is back - with higher stages and more bands. And, new for 2010, Clandemonium kicks off an enhanced parade. On Sunday 1 August (see page 8) we launch Jazz Al Fresco, again in the Grassmarket, but with table and chair seating it offers a relaxed afternoon vibe. Later Melba Joyce headlines the Gospel Concert. The Central Library hosts an exhibition (see page 23) and Naturally Inspired takes place throughout The Botanics on Sunday 8th August (see page 22). Ruaridh Pattison The Lot • 6-7pm • £5 • 14+ Samuel Not yet 18, and currently studying at Hällkvist Center Old Baileys Clandemonium Edinburgh’s Broughton School, Voodoo Rooms Parliament Square • Assemble at 11.30am • FREE Pattison is a very hot young Jazz Advocates 8.30pm • £10 • 18+ • SEATED saxophone player, playing music by and Climax The world premiere of a unique Dave Holland, standards, originals in a Jazz for the information age. Scottish jazz flashmob street two tenor band with Joe Wright. Guitarist Hällkvist's eclectic Reunion Band event. roots in ragtime, country, Jamhouse Drummer, Tom Bancroft has metal, noise and early digital 7.30pm • £15 • 18+ created an exciting opportunity electronics, inform music that’s for everyone to be part of the half weird guitar music, half The Climax Jazz Band came festival, even if you have no the future of jazz. Boldly, he’s straight out of the original musical experience! We are been made Jazz In Sweden Edinburgh trad boom of the looking for people to take part as China Moses artist of 2010. Want to hear late 50’s and 60’s with a raw drummers, dancers, body The Hub • 8.30pm • £15 something new? Check out New Orleans energy at their percussionists/singers, and kazoo heart. Mike Hart and Jim Petrie players. You'll be given all the kit To take part, find out more details She’s got a voice that cuts, soulful and strong, and this Nordic Quartet. have re-created the Band for you need including a colour- and reserve a place (you need to she’s got blues, powerful swing and a high voltage Edinburgh Jazz at 60. Fifteen coded tammy. For 30 minutes be over 10) phone The Festival personality: China Moses is a genuine exciting new years later, in the late 70’s and we'll teach you some simple skills Office on 0131 467 5200 or email vocal discovery. Originally a soul-diva, she hooked 80’s, Old Baileys were and then we'll fit them all together [email protected]. up with jazz pianist, Raphael Lemonnier and made unchallenged kings of Dixieland to make an unforgettable, funky, an international breakthrough with a dynamite set of Look out for more information on and swing in Edinburgh. For street jazz event. Blazing over the Dinah Washington tunes. Here she is, for the first www.edinburghjazzfestival.com one night only, they’re back top will be the inspiring sound of time in Scotland! together, with Hamish jazz horns and creating McGregor fronting. the “I was part of it” moment of the Festival.

Mardi Gras Jon Cleary: Martin Kershaw & Parade , Bass & Drums Quartet Grassmarket • 1.00-4.00pm • FREE The Lot • 9pm • £10• 14+ The Parade leaves City Chambers in Assembly@Princes Street Gardens Canned Heat the High Street at 12.30pm, and 6pm • £15 Catchy, appealing melodies; inspired heads to the Mardi Gras. A vibrant solos: Kershaw’s alto saxophone One of the greats of the current New Woodstock Reunited Band splash of colour and exuberant and Chick Lyall’s piano are both Orleans scene, blues-man, piano-man, music as the New Orleans Queens Hall • 8.30pm • £32.50, £28.50 + SUPPORT questing for beauty in music which and living history man, Jon Cleary party atmosphere comes to draws on both the American and knocked us out at the 2007 Festival. For the first time in ten years, the legendary blues-rock-boogie Edinburgh. This year the programme includes The European traditions. A very rare Criterion Brass Band, Puff Uproar, Edinburgh Samba Now he’s back. Down and dirty New band who headlined the original Woodstock Festival are back chance to hear one of the most School, The Diplomats Of Jazz, Dana Dixon Band and Orleans funk, as broad, deep and roiling playing in the UK, with three of the original 1969 band members: important groups in Scottish Jazz. Batchelors of Jazz. as the Mississippi river. Soulful vocals, Fito de la Parra, Larry Taylor and Harvey Mandel. One of the most jazz piano skills, melodic hooks and influential bands of the 60’s their hits “Going To The Country”, For full line-up see www.edinburghjazzfestival.com sharp lyrics with infectious classic “On The Road Again”, “Lets Work Together” were deep rooted in + Singer Victoria Bennett plays a free session at the R&B grooves. country blues, and John Lee Hooker inspired boogie. Central Library at 11am. Sunday Free Events 01 August DjAN O Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 g Info: 0131 467 5200 100 www.edinburghjazzfestival.com The Jazz Festival honours the towering genius of Django Reinhardt in the centenary of his birth. The Bays / Hidden Orchestra + Su a Lee Jam Session • see page 23

The first christian-name-only mythical Asthmatic Astronaut / Astroboy figure of jazz, Django is applauded The Caves • 9pm-1am • £12.50 • 18+ by guitarists as diverse as Hendrix, Jazz Al Fresco Club night headlined by The Bays, one of the UK's most talked about live acts: deep house Clapton and BB King, for his dazzling In Conversation Grassmarket • 1-4.30pm • FREE and techno, hip hop, electro and drum n bass layered with dubby bass lines, samples and high-speed runs and ballad playing of Scotsman Talks A relaxed, informal afternoon of jazz in the synths. The Bays are improvisers. They only perform live, they never rehearse, they don’t aching intensity. historic surrounds of the Grassmarket. Three have a set-list and they couldn’t ever do the same performance twice. Joe Acheson’s Quartet stages will feature a range of easy listening has morphed into The Hidden Orchestra, and their cinematic spacey grooves have won them From his early years living in a horse What makes jazz and blues of all styles. The programme a major record deal. Cellist, Lee, is their guest. More electronica and hip hop with AA. drawn gypsy caravan, to the fire that Django Special? includes Edinburgh Schools Jazz Orchestra, damaged his hand, to surviving the A Jazz Festival/Joe Acheson (pictured above right) / Departure Lounge production. Ken Mathieson The Hub • 2.30pm-3.30pm • £5 Melba Joyce, John Allred, Rosy Blue, Jess Nazi threat he became the first hugely Abrams, the RSAMD Sextet and Cool Classic Jazz influential jazz figure to emerge from John Russell hosts a conversation America. Come to eat and drink as The Orchestra Europe. Propelling the humble acoustic with Mark Gilbert (Editor, Jazz Journal), Grassmarket will be set out with table and Todd Gordon sings Sinatra: guitar into the front line of the jazz Martin Taylor and Fapy Lafertin, chair seating (limited availability, of course!) and Duke Heitger discussing the unique qualities and combo, he created with Stephane For full line-up see It Might As Well Be Swing! extraordinary legacy of the innovative play Louis Grappelli the signature Hot Club sound. www.edinburghjazzfestival.com guitarist. With the Ryan Quigley Big Band Armstrong Django's Galouise wreathed cool image mirrored his chaotic and Assembly@Princes Street Gardens • 8.30pm • £17.50 Jamhouse hedonistic lifestyle. On Film Paying homage to the wonderful Sinatra recordings with the 8pm • £12.50 • 18+ and Count Basie Orchestras, Todd Gordon offers his interpretations of Ken Mathieson's Band features Fapy Lafertin starts our homage - look Lacombe Lucien for the Django name to see the other ever-popular songs like “I've Got You Under My Skin”, “Come Fly With Me” the cream of Scottish classic and “My Kind Of Town”. “We’re used to swing singers being jazz talent, and long time concerts in the series. + Jazz Hot hailed as the next Sinatra, yet in the case of Todd collaborator, the effervescent Filmhouse • 8.30pm Gordon, the comparison is apt” (Daily Express). New Orleans trumpeter, Duke A film by Louis Malle, plus some rare Heitger, taking time out from footage of Django. his day job leading the band Tickets: 0131 228 2688 / on the Natchez Steamer. They’ve a new album together www.filmhousecinema.com A Special Charity of Louis Armstrong tunes. “Terrific music, imaginative Concert Featuring arrangements and strong Tam White playing with great panache” Melba Joyce (The Herald). St Cuthberts Church • 6-7pm • FREE Sermon Orchestra A special fundraising concert in aid of Queens Hall • 8pm • £20, £15 Teenage Cancer Trust featuring the powerful voice of Harlem's Melba Joyce. One of New When the history of popular music in Scotland comes to be York’s top jazz singers, she grew up with written, Tam White’s name will loom large. From the mid-60’s, Melting Pot gospel music and tonight she sings some when he was one of the first Scots to have a major record deal Voodoo Rooms and appear on “Top of the Pops”, to today when he leads one spirituals and leads the Gospel singing. 8.30pm • £10 • 18+ of Scotland's most popular blues based bands, Tam White’s granite voice has always been instantly recognisable. Here he Colin Steele’s Soul-Jazz-Funk is with a horn section, organist, Paul Harrison and a host of band play infectious grooves guests including Niki and Tony King... that take you back to sweaty basement clubs and hot dance floors. It’s a 60’s soul-jazz vibe with funky bass and blues grooves, underpinning the wondrous soul singer, Subie Coleman and the preaching Swing 2010 and saxophone of Phil Bancroft. Fapy Lafertin Laura Macdonald and Martina Almgren Oh Yeah! The Hub • 4pm • £12.50 Frank Perowsky The Hub • 8pm • £12.50 Celebrating 30 years as Scotland’s leading The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Django inspired band, Swing 2010 played with Two of Europe's leading female jazz instrumentalists, Swing to bop, the New York the great gypsy guitarist, Fapy Lafertin, in their the Scottish saxophonist and the Swedish drummer tenor sax and flute player has a very early years and know well that his fiery front a group which sparkles with upbeat grooves and top flight pedigree, he's played technique and strong melodic sense, produces bright melodies. Almgren's tunes are founded on with , Billy emotive, exciting music. Quite simply, he’s the strong rhythms and swing, and the combination with Eckstine, the Thad Jones/Mel nearest to Django you can hear today. MacDonald's lyrical and harmonic ideas makes for the Lewis band, and , most attractive music. Real Feminine Jazz. “Bubbling and has been MD for Liza lyrical music” (All About Jazz). Minelli for decades. His Quartet DjANgO 100 features pianist, Gary Versace. Brian Auger's Monday Oblivion Express FRENCH Voodoo Rooms 8.30pm £18 18+ August • • • An evening of killer groove Hammond organ 02 virtuosity, a rhythmical firework combining jazz, Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 early British pop, R&B, soul and rock. Few luminaries from the 60’s have left a deeper mark Info: 0131 467 5200 JAZZ NOW on music history than Auger who is widely www.edinburghjazzfestival.com regarded as the godfather of acid jazz, as well as being a crucial figure in the 60s R&B scene and a Since the 1930’s jazz has been widely admired and leading light of the jazz-rock movement in the Jam Session • see page 23 appreciated in France. States in the 70s.

The music is not marginalised. It’s in Saxophonist, Emile Parisien’s Quartet the mainstream of popular culture. is a post-Coltrane, clever, dynamic and The new generation of French jazz sometimes astonishing band. The duo musicians have emerged confident, of pianist, Francis Le Bras and German Peter Green and Friends world-wise, and with a direct saxophonist, Daniel Erdmann are HMV Picture House • 8pm (doors 7.30pm) relationship with a broad audience. sweet and spice; comfort and danger. £20 • 14+ + SUPPORT They’re steeped in a rich tradition, Finally, and perhaps, most strikingly, “He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the and creating new sounds, thrilling we welcome L’Orchestre National De only one who gave me the cold sweats” - that's what audiences as they progress. Jazz, a symbol of the new mood in BB King had to say about Fleetwood Mac's founder, French jazz. Young musicians with former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and This year’s Festival presents six French one of the most influential British Blues guitarists since backgrounds in electronica, popular groups and provides a snapshot of the mid-1960s. “Green proved he is still an absolute musics, hip hop, as well as jazz, Melba Joyce French Jazz in 2010. The Django Acker Bilk with master of the blues, his delicate playing and vocals inspired, Les Doigts de L’Homme and presenting a programme of songs by totally bewitching the audience” (The Times). with special guest the brilliant pianist, Baptiste Trotignon, Billie Holiday with two very special his Paramount Duke Heitger return after triumphs in 2009. China singers, French singer/songwriter star, Jamhouse Karen Lano and the leading English Jazz Band Moses adorns our cover and her 8pm • £12.50 • 18+ Blues singer of our time, Ian Siegal. Assembly@Princes Street Garden Scottish debut will be an opportunity From Harlem with a flair for soul, a 8.30pm • £18 to assess this major new world star. Welcome/Bienvenue passion for the blues, an Acker is one of the hottest clarinet Siobhan Duncan instinctive swinging delivery that players and one of the most popular Quintet packs a might punch, a bubbling names there has ever been in British jazz. The Lot • 6-7pm • £5 • 14+ personality and a big presence. A strong, imaginative, passionate The marvellous New York vocalist, musician, he keeps his band fresh and Hailing from Lewis, trumpeter, Siobhan Melba has been the Count Basie exciting. Remarkably he probably has the Duncan plays bright engaging modern Orchestra singer for some years strongest musical line-up he’s had for jazz with power and poise. Set to be a and delivers old style honest decades: with trombonist Ian Bateman, major new voice in Scottish jazz. swinging good time jazz, with a and trumpeter, Enrico Tommaso. And he’ll showbiz swagger. The New always play “Stranger On The Shore”. Orleans trumpeter joins in the fun.

Havana Swing An Evening With Royal Overseas League Joe Temperley 12.30pm • £8 Classic swing jazz of the 30’s and 40’s - Assembly@Princes Street Gardens as the traditions of European gypsy swing 6-7.30pm • £10 collide with the sophisticated jazz of Joe Temperley talks about life, music, musicians like Duke Ellington - makes the saxophones, , repertoire of this terrific five-piece band. improvising, Ellington, New York... and Cowdenbeath FC, and plays duets with DjANgO 100 Orchestre National de Jazz Brian Kellock. Broadway in Satin / Billie Holiday Revisited Martin Taylor Eric Alexander Quartet Singers: Karen Lano & Ian Siegal Spirit of Django The Lot 9pm £16 14+ Musical Director: Daniel Yvinec • • • Nobody epitomises the tough The Hub • 8pm • £15 Plus Fapy Lafertin tenor saxophonist of the Blue Keeping intact the marvellous contours of the original Queens Hall • 8pm • £22.50, £17.50 Note tradition better than melodies, The French National Jazz Institution, ONJ Taylor takes the light, swinging, but intensely Alexander. He’s a giant of the will perform a selection of songs associated with Billie exciting feel of Django Reinhardt and the Hot current New York scene, rooted in Holiday, painting them in unusual orchestral colours Club of France, to inspire a new incarnation of the deep traditions of great US tenor players, from Ben Webster and taking them into hitherto unexplored territory. his band. It’s a fabulous vehicle for the to Wayne Shorter and a master of Intriguingly, the singers are the passionate and raw breathtaking virtuosity of his guitar playing improvising over blues, bop, blues star, Ian Siegal, and the wonderfully beguiling genius, couched in the wonderful atmospherics ballads and all kinds of exciting chanteuse, Karen Lano. Together they create a very of veteran accordionist, Jack Emblow and rhythms and harmonies. Here he special atmosphere. Paris with Lady Day. featuring the saxophone wizardry of Alan is with long time cohorts, John Barnes and vocals of Alison Burns. Webber (bass) and Joe Farnsworth (drums). DjANgO 100 Tuesday Festival of Swing 03 August Bob Wilber, Joe Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 Info: 0131 467 5200 Temperley, Scott www.edinburghjazzfestival.com Hamilton, Alan Barnes, Duke Heitger, Jam Session • see page 23

Howard Alden Pictured left to right Queens Hall • 8pm • £22.50, £17.50 The Festival has invited nine of the world’s leading exponents of Swinging Jazz to come together and create a unique one-off event, playing in a number of Niki King different settings: Wilber with Alden; Temperley and The Hub • 8.30pm • £15 Hamilton; Barnes and Hamilton; with Duke Heitger King's smoky, bluesy voice is the perfect vehicle to interpret the songs flying the New Orleans flag …and then all together made famous by the most emotive of jazz singers: Billie Holiday. King under Wilber’s “baton”. You’ll hear the music of rekindles Holiday's emotional openness and communicates directly with Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, audiences, mixing vulnerability with strength. Lester Young – some call it “The Golden Age Of Jazz”. The rhythm team features Edinburgh’s own Tom Finlay, Bill Salmond's and the sparkling swing drumming of Ed Metz. Louisiana Ragtime Band + Spirits Malcolm MacFarlane Octet of Rhythm with McFalls Jamhouse • 8pm • £10 • 18+ Hypnotic Brass Ensemble The Hub • 6-7.30pm (no interval) • £10 A double helping of early New Orleans McFarlane’s guitar playing has been a feature of all kinds of music from the two Edinburgh bands Assembly@Princes Street Gardens • 9pm • £15 bands – from Jamie Cullum to leading the Scottish Guitar who have kept the Classic 20’s Jazz The ten strong funky Brass Band from Chicago exploded on the UK Quartet. Now, the Scottish Jazz award winner launches an alive in Edinburgh for over four music scene via exposure on Jools Holland’s Later. Now, with a Choice eight piece band that incorporates the high profile strings of decades. Both bands will feature Cuts recording and headline shows planned at Festivals throughout McFalls, with the mighty Paul Harrison on piano. They break special guests as they celebrate the Europe (including Glastonbury, ), they’re taking the street down the barriers between jazz and other contemporary music of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll music out to the people, where funk and soul and rap and jazz fit musics, and present sparky, spontaneous music packed Morton, King Oliver et al with real seamlessly into high energy, party music that gets everyone moving. with lyricism, energy and dynamics. conviction, spirit and passion.

Nova Scotia Jazz Band Royal Overseas League 12.30pm • £8 Mike Daly (cornet), John Burgess (reeds), Roy Percy (bass), and Duncan Findlay () play classic jazz of the 1920’s and 30’s, in the tradition of Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Bix Eric Alexander Beiderbecke and Alex Welsh. Emile Parisien Quartet Mario Caribe Quartet Voodoo Rooms • 8.30pm • £10 • 18+ Quintet featuring The Lot • 9pm • £16 • 14+ Winners of countless accolades for their David Berkman Affectionately termed Tim Elliott/Sandy telepathic understanding and almost The Jazz Bar • 8pm • £10 • 14+ “Alexander The Great”, Eric’s Tweeddale Band cinematic compositions, the saxophonist’s impassioned tenor sax is the group has drawn comparisons with Wayne The sunny warmth of Mario's music resonant vehicle for one of play Elmore James Shorter’s Bands. “Parisien, a theatrical meets the intrepid pianism of David contemporary jazz's most and Jimmy Reid performer and incisive improviser, began Berkman and together they generate exciting and original voices. with free-improv..a roar of percussive piano serious heat. Rolling rhythms, infectious Gritty, soaring, serpentine, Minto Hotel • 8pm • £10 and whooping bowed-bass sounds gave and edgy tunes, the music bristles with good-vibes and adventure. An all-star iridescent, tender, tough: he Blues N’Trouble singer/harmonica man way to a cruising free swing in which his band includes Martin Kershaw (alto inspires a range of emotions. and guitarist have put together a special staccato phrasing became captivatingly sax), Kevin Mackenzie (guitar) and Tom Blue Note Jazz in 2010. With band to play the music of 50’s/60’s seamless. Bristling, arrhythmic funk, a Gordon (drums). John Webber, Joe Farnsworth. Blues Greats, Sonny Boy Williams and shimmering lyricism on slow pieces... Jimmy Reed. This is Blues before rock contributed to a show that condensed n’roll swamped it. Authentically and an implausible range of expressiveness” lovingly restored. Feel that Southern (). heat coming through. Wednesday Paul Harrison August Threeform 04 The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 A new acoustic group formed by pianist Paul Info: 0131 467 5200 Harrison, bassist Euan Burton and drummer Doug Hough. Simultaneously they embrace www.edinburghjazzfestival.com the history of the classic piano trio while exploring and inventing new directions. Jam Session • see page 23 Fearless music that can switch from delicate and conversational to full steam grooves.

Joe Gordon’s Ragtime Royal Overseas League Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra 12.30pm • £8 Directed by Joe Temperley A Festival institution now, and consistently a sell out. The veteran White Heather Club Swinging for Basie singer and banjo player loves traditional jazz, and plays with Brian Kellock and rags, stomps, blues and swing tunes with great special guest, Dennis Rowland entertainment value. Queens Hall • 8pm • £21.50, £16.50 Tommy Smith An all-star cast recreate the joyous music of Count Basie featuring KARMA arrangements by Quincy Jones, Neal Hefti and . Joe Temperley plans a masterclass of swing, concentrating on the great Anthony Joseph Andrew Robb The Hub • 6-7.30pm • £12.50 music that swirled around the Basie Band in the late 50’s and 60’s. He’ll bring special charts from the US to feature the Orchestra and will and the Quartet A new direction for the leading introduce the wonderful, Dennis Rowland, Basie’s 70’s vocalist and Konrad Wiszniewski + The Lot • 6-7pm • £5 • 14+ saxophonist, with a brand new one of the most authoritative interpreters of the blues-soaked soulful Spasm Band The young award winning band and new music focusing on swing versions of classic American tunes. Baptiste Trotignon Trio Voodoo Rooms the reactions of his group. Edinburgh bassist is already Assembly@Princes Street Gardens • 8.30pm • £10 8.30pm • £16 • 18+ Expect sudden shifts in The Orchestra features Ryan Quigley, Colin Steele, Kevin Ferris making a big noise for himself on direction, atmospheric folklore (trumpet), John Allred, Rick Taylor, Phil O’Malley, David Gibson Trotignon is one of the world’s most exciting young jazz Voodoo punk set somewhere the London jazz scene. Assured, textures, and virtuosic playing. (), Bobby Wellins, Michael Buckley, Loren Stillman, Colin pianists. His touch is Ravel and Debussy; his drive is out of between Sun Ra, Gil Scott Heron swinging, and promising to be a With Steve Hamilton, Kevin Skinner, Jay Craig (saxophone), Howard Alden (guitar), Brian Kellock Herbie Hancock, and his music is at the forefront of the new and the Last Poets, Joseph is a bandleader of great import. Here , Alyn Cosker. (piano), John Webber (bass). wave of jazz, alongside the best from New York. Here he is leading teacher, poet, novelist and he is with a special all star band. SPONSORED BY with his sparkling Trio, and in a special duo collaboration with rapper and his poetic chanted word the young star Scottish tenor saxophonist Wiszniewski, who is sits over a solid funk groove, also creating great interest internationally with his always guided by Caribbean Voodoo. urgent and often romantic sound. Music for head, heart and feet.

Sandy Brown Group + Mike Hart Society Syncopators Jamhouse • 8pm • £15 • 18+ Les Doigts One man was responsible for world class de l'Homme Edinburgh jazz: Sandy Brown. Tonight we The Hub • 8.30pm • £15 An evening with salute this genius of the clarinet and remind Back by popular demand ourselves of his long time Edinburgh Peter Vettese after their smash, sell-out colleague, trumpeter, Al Fairweather. Jake show in 2009. Les Doigts Assembly@Princes Street Gardens McMahon and Bruce Adams play the lead TJ Johnson merge their Django roots 6-7.30pm • £10 roles in an all star Sextet. Opening the Minto Hotel • 8pm • £12 with rock sensibilities One of Scotland’s leading international musicians. concert is a chance to hear Jazz Festival One of the finest vocalists delivering swing and fiery In the late 70’s the pianist was a young star of the Founding Director, Mike Hart and his Society and r'n'b piano players on the guitar solos with fabulous Edinburgh jazz scene. He answered an ad for a Syncopators, one of the great Edinburgh jazz scene today. A truly technique and musicianship; keyboard player and found himself a member of Jethro traditional jazz bands. Mike is one of the few tremendous voice with unashamed showmanship Tull. As a musician, songwriter and producer he has active musicians who played with Sandy enormous power combining and irreverent humour. worked with Go West, Annie Lennox, Foreigner, Simple Brown. Here he is with new takes on 20's with rollicking horns and Minds and many more. Together with Heather Small, he and 30's jazz featuring Hamish McGregor rhythms to create a blend of wrote “Proud”, The 2012 Olympic theme tune. Tonight (reeds) and Alan Quinn (trombone). DjANgO 100 jazz, blues, soul, country and he looks back at his early jazz career and performs new gospel delivered with passion music composed especially for this show. and swagger. “Barnstorming” (Evening News). Tom Bancroft’s Band Of Eden Pete Martin Thursday Orchestra Interrupto All Stars August The Lot • 6pm • £10 • 14+ The Hub • 8pm • £12.50 05 Modern Jazz in Edinburgh in Band of Eden is a mixed gender 18 piece contemporary big band featuring Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 the 1960’s was the domain of an explosive mix of instrumental talent from all over the world. Playing new trumpeter, Pete Martin, and his compositions by Tom Bancroft and Laura Macdonald the group splits into Info: 0131 467 5200 six piece band. They played two unisex groups – Band Of Adam and Band Of Eve - as well as playing American mainstream jazz and bop with real verve and www.edinburghjazzfestival.com together. This is Orchestro Interrupto's long awaited follow-up to their five youthful enthusiasm. Then they all went their own ways. star-rated concert with Geri Allen “less of a jazz gig more a blissful dream” They haven’t played together since, but now all six original (The Guardian). Jam Session • see page 23 members are united again to recreate that special Musical Directors Tom Bancroft and Laura Macdonald chemistry. Pete Martin (trumpet), Gerard Dott (clarinet and Band Eve: saxes), George Howden (trombone), Lachlan MacColl (guitar), Tim Pharoah (bass), Allen Skinner (drums). Laura MacDonald (alto sax, composition), Martina Almgren (drums), Noriko Ueda (bass), Zoe Rahman (piano), Leah Gough Cooper (tenor sax), Georgina Bromilow (trumpet), Annie Whitehead (trombone), Lorna MacDonald (bass trombone). Band Adam: Tom Bancroft (drums, composition), Kevin Mackenzie (guitar), Oren Marshall (tuba), Phil Bancroft, Joakim Milder (tenor sax), John Telfer (baritone sax), David Berkman Byron Wallen (trumpet), Joost Buis, Kevin Garrity (trombone). Trio SUPPORTED BY The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Angie King and He doesn’t come from Edinburgh, but in terms of Edinburgh Jazz History, Bruce Adams no other international star has made The Minto • 8pm • £10 himself so welcome with musicians Swinging trumpet meets classy and audiences in Edinburgh. We’re a vocals. There's no finer singer second home for the brilliant New in Scotland than Angie King - York pianist. Berkman’s driving, edgy, she's a real treasure to be swinging music is a thrilling updating Reminiscin’ discovered - tonight she is of the classic tradition from Errol with Chris joined by the bright swinging Garner to Monk to Herbie Hancock - trumpet playing of one of the full of unusual twists and turns, and The Hub giants of British jazz, Bruce presented with a sharp, dry wit. 11.30am-12.30pm • £5 Chris Barber at 80 Adams. Chris Barber - One of the most The Big Chris Barber Band stimulating and articulate musicians in the music - is + Chris Barber All Star Jazz questioned by Dave Batchelor and Blues Band about his life in Jazz. Queens Hall • 8pm • £25, £20 GOL Edinburgh Jazz Festival salutes one of the greats of British Jazz, Voodoo Rooms and celebrates the fact that at the remarkable age of 80, he still 10pm • £10 • 18+ leads a band that stands out as one of the finest, if not the finest, What to expect? “Elements of of its kind anywhere in the world. The Big Chris Barber Band feature Persia, dub, jazz, funk and North everything from New Orleans to blues to late 20’s Ellington, played Africa, and a groove that anyone with extraordinary panache and skill. Barber is an icon of traditional can lock into" (Astrojazz), GOL jazz in the UK, and for this one-off occasion, he has specially are an Edinburgh based band re-assembled a band that was for many years the most popular in with a very unusual take on the country. For one night only, Pat Halcox, Ian Wheeler and Chris world-jazz. Roxana Pope sings Barber play in the front line with Johnny McCallum on banjo, John Red Stripe Band in Persian and English and they Slaughter on guitar, Vic Pitt on bass, and Sticky Wickets on drums. Jamhouse • 8pm • £12.50 • 18+ feature santur, nay and kaval Toby Shippey playing, as well as traditional File under “Party”. Described as “Jools Holland on Banda Leon western electric rock/jazz group Speed” the engagingly infectious pianist and singer instruments. Strong groove and Voodoo Rooms Red Stripe and his seven-piece band offer wicked exotic melody. 7pm • £10 • 18+ boogie-woogie, jump jive blues/rock and roll, and a party atmosphere that swings with high octane Salsa Celtica and Rumba music. The band features a highly animated horn Caliente frontman, Toby Shippey section and the dynamic vocals of Gemma Nelson. has had an eclectic music Baritone and tenor sax players Erica Clarke and career; writing, recording and Martin Gray will be off the stage and among the performing everything from jazz audience ... yes its Red Stripe time again. to ska, punk, indie, gospel, hip- hop, salsa, afro-latin, country, blues, folk, funk and flamenco to psychedelic rock and everything in between and sometimes all at Seaside Skiffle the same time. With his new Royal Overseas League • 12.30pm • £8 project Banda Leon it is hard to Championed by Ken Colyer and Lonnie Donegan predict what will happen. skiffle blended deep southern blues and country However there will probably be music with British traditional jazz passion. Here’s at least seven musicians a fun re-make with Eric Wales, Jerry O'Regan, possibly playing saxophones, Hamish McGregor and Ken Ford. , , guitars, , percussion, and singing. Friday Haftor Medbøe Group August Voodoo Rooms 8.30pm • £10 • SEATED • 18+ 06 The guitarist conjures seductive cinematic Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 atmospheres with energetic drum Info: 0131 467 5200 programming, lush instrumental arrangements, brilliant saxophone soloing www.edinburghjazzfestival.com from Konrad Wiszniewski; percussive drive from Signy Jakobsdottir, and the smooth hypnotic vocals of Anneke Kampman. Jam Session • see page 23

The Antique Six Heriots Rugby Club • 8-11pm • £10 • 14+ Gordon McNeil Sextet + Hugely popular English band, making a rare Edinburgh appearance – music from Louis and Jelly David Gibson Quartet Roll, the trad revivalists, and plenty of “party jazz”. The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Curtis Stigers McNeil is one of Scotland’s top tenor and The Hub • 8.30pm • £20 soprano saxists – in the Brecker, Bob Berg Napier University Jazz Devilish, romantic, and sexy, Stigers is a magnificent mould, he likes to attack tempos and blow hard, and here he is with his Sextet featuring Summer School interpreter of modern songs penned by some of the The Lot • 2pm • £5 most influential songwriters of our time. His laconic, Ryan Quigley and Malcolm MacFarlane doing A showcase for the students' newly acquired sandpaper voice is complemented by his languid-sax just that. Opening up is one of New York’s skills! Led by Haftor Medbøe. sound, and his eloquence with a heartache song hippest trombonists playing fluid, buzzing bop. matches his infectious enthusiasm on upbeat swinging tunes. First time to Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, with his top notch Quartet featuring the exquisite trumpeter, John Sneider.

Elin Larsson Group + Loren Stillman Duo The Lot • 6pm • £10 • 14+ The young tearaway tenor saxophonist on the Stockholm scene has transformed herself into a sophisticated bandleader Jim Petries's playing music that beguiles with folk roots, big melodies, catchy rhythms and terrific Diplomats Of Jazz solo strength. Anyone who loves Colin Royal Overseas League • 12.30pm • £8 Steele’s music will want to catch this. A He's a national treasure - the trumpeter and vocalist giant of the current New York scene, alto oozes passion and great emotional power, playing saxophonist, Stillman plays an opening set. music from the classic age of jazz.

Fat Sams Band Jamhouse • 8pm • £15 • 18+ High-octane, swinging, jump jiving, grooving and finger The Piano In Jazz snapping - this nine-man power house of sound and energy is a Tom Finlay Trio / David Berkman throwback to the jump and Eric Burdon Duo / Zoe Rahman Solo swing bands of the 30's and 40's - the cool cat's Friday The Hub • 2.30pm • £10 night out. and The Animals The history of jazz piano interpreted by three brilliant Queens Hall • 8.30pm • £27.50, £22.50 + SUPPORT pianists. Trio, Duo, Solo. We make mention especially of Tom Finlay, an unsung hero of Edinburgh Jazz. Come Returning to deliver the full show, Burdon sings old and new tunes and hear him doing his own thing for once, joined by the with great power and impact, His searingly powerful blues-rock voice great drummer Ed Metz. A surprise for nearly everyone. was the hallmark of Sixties beat group The Animals. Best known for their gritty, bluesy sound and string of hits like “House of the Rising Sun”, “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “We've Gotta Get Out of this Place”, while his brooding intensity burned the indelible mark. Edinburgh Jazz Tommy Smith Saturday Youth Jazz Orchestra August Festival Orchestra The Hub • 2pm • £10 Classic big band tunes from Ellington to Maria 07 Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 Directed by Colin Steele Schneider delivered with panache, verve and youthful enthusiasm. Tommy Smith has Info: 0131 467 5200 Queens Hall • 8.30pm • £19.50, £16 recruited Scotland's best young jazz players and drilled them into a crack unit capable of www.edinburghjazzfestival.com Trumpeter and Composer, Colin Steele, is the Sibelius of the new empathetic group playing and inspired solos. Scotland. His music is a massive, joyous celebration of Scottish melody and rhythm, liberated and enhanced by the spirit, Jam Session • see page 23 sophistication and technique of jazz. His recordings and concerts are warm, life affirming, and thrilling in their effect. He disarms the most hardened jazz fan with the power and beauty of the music, and speaks strongly to audiences who say they don’t like jazz. He’s written new music for the largest force he’s ever commanded. Edinburgh Festival Those who love the Quintet and Stramash will find his Orchestra Blues music even more bewitching. For the uninitiated, what a pleasure lies in store! The Orchestra features Ryan Quigley, Colin Steele, Kevin Ferris (trumpet), John Allred, Rick Taylor, Lorna MacDonald, David Gibson (trombone), Phil Bancroft, Michael Buckley, Loren Stillman, Jay Craig (saxophone), Ben Bryden’s Dave Milligan (piano), John Webber (bass) Django à la Créole Bright Noise and Stuart Ritchie (drums). with Evan Christopher Arrangements: Euan Stevenson Voodoo Rooms • 8.30pm • £8 • SEATED • 18+ Bryden is one of Scotland’s most exciting young The Hub • 7pm • £15 musicians. The tenor sax player has been living Gypsy swing imbued with the music of New Orleans, the and playing in New York for some time now, and Caribbean and Brazil. Clarinettist, Evan Christopher is New here he is with fellow New Yorkers, Steven Orleans’ leading clarinetist. He combines virtuosity and Delannoye and Des White together with Mark immaculate taste with a strong root in New Orleans jazz. Elegant Ladies Sing The Blues McKnight and Doug Hough in a two tenor band and impassioned, Evan's style is steeped in the tradition of early Jamhouse • 1-4.30pm • £10 • 18+ who play in the new New York mode: from jazz masters such as Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Noone, and Barney euphoric grooves to melancholy atmospheric Bigard. With guitarists David Blenkhorn and Dave Kelbie, and Barbara Morrison, Lisa Mills Band, Violet Leighton Band melodies, intertwined with high octane bassist Sebastien Girardot, he celebrates the music of the A triple bill of three great female blues singers. LA’s Barbara Morrison improvisation and deep jazz respect. legendary Django Reinhardt and enlivens swing-era classics is on her way to the Big Joe Turner Blues Festival in France. She sings with fresh interpretations and virtuosic improvisation. with a Piano Trio and tells it like they did in the 40’s and 50’s. From Alabama, Lisa Mills’ rocking, sexy Mississippi inspired music always DjANgO 100 gets audiences moving and look out for a great undiscovered Scottish talent, Violet Leighton who has one of the most convincing voices in the business. Refuge Trio The Lot • 6-7.30pm • £10 • 14+ Blues N’ Trouble, King King, Fusing progressive rock, modern jazz and avant-garde minimalism, Refuge Trio are three of New York’s cutting Gerry Jablonski Electric Band edge leaders: vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Jamhouse • 8-10.30pm • £10 • STANDING • 18+ drummer John Hollenbeck, and Edinburgh’s monster blues band headline a rollicking night of three big keyboardist Gary Versace. They’ve Festival favourites. Blues N’Trouble’s classic style electric blues, with played with musicians as diverse as Tim Elliott’s charismatic vocal is one of the most enduring sounds in Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Bob the country. Alan Nimmo fronts King King, a new band that’s causing Brookmeyer, John Scofield and Maria a big stir at Blues Festivals and clubs all over Europe. Schneider. Music dense with polytonal The guitarist and vocalist writes a lot of catchy contrasts and engaging song-forms. tunes for a high energy rock-blues group with a really wide appeal. Guitarist, Gerry Jablonski’s powerful four-piece was the hit of the 2009 Festival. We had to NeWt with Silke Eberhard have him back! The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Trombonist Chris Greive, guitarist Graeme Stephen, and drummer Chris Wallace have one of the most unusual and distinctive sounds in 2010 Jazz. Their new album with the virtuoso Berlin clarinetist, Silke Eberhard, adds even more adventure and intrigue. New York downtown jazz edge Curtis Stigers with European impro and classical influence. The Hub • 10pm • £20 Second night with the brilliant US singer. See August 6 for info. Sunday Play Jazz

August Edinburgh Napier University 08 Jazz Summer School Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 A week long intensive, hands-on course covering theoretical Info: 0131 467 5200 and practical approaches to improvisation and performance. Designed to develop jazz playing skills for musicians of all ages and abilities, the course includes www.edinburghjazzfestival.com instrumental and ensemble coaching from Scotland’s finest professional jazz musicians/educators under the directorship of Edinburgh Napier University’s Jazz Musician in Residence Haftor Medbøe. Hosted at the University’s superbly equipped Music School the course takes place in the idyllic Jam Session • see page 23 Craighouse Campus, and offers opportunities to hear concerts at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival in the evening. The week culminates in a public performance by the students performing in ensemble groups. Carol Kidd DATES: Mon 2 - Fri 6 Aug 2010 Comment from Edinburgh Festival previous students: sings the music Blues TUTORS: Laura Macdonald, Konrad Wiszniewski (reeds); of Judy Garland Paul Lamb & The King Snakes, Haftor Medbøe (guitar); Tom Gibbs (piano); “...a fantastic course Mario Caribé (bass); Stuart Brown (drums) that I’d recommend...” John Hunt, Lisa Mills solo Queens Hall • 8pm • £22.50, £17.50 PRICES: £320 / £250 concessions. “...thoroughly enjoyable Carol Kidd has always had a Jamhouse • 1-4.30pm • £10 • 18+ and would like to For further information and an application form please call shower of stardust around her, “Lamb plays blues in the same way Brando used to participate again.” 0131 455 6038, or email [email protected] and here she is celebrating straddle a Triumph lazily, cocksure, coolly and Garland’s legendary songs, aggressive” (Blues & Rhythm). The top harmonica player from the great era of Hollywood. has a seasoned band of classy blues players, back at Shimmering and soaring with the Festival after too many years away. They headline an perfect phrasing, Kidd’s voice afternoon of acoustic acts, including the hugely original Capital Jazz: A spotlight on Edinburgh talent is underpinned by impeccable Hunt, with his handmade guitars and cutting edge Central Library FREE timing and deep emotional vocals; and, from Alabama, Lisa Mills’ new take on • engagement. A must for lovers Southern Blues. Fri 30 July, 10am-5pm; Sat 31 July, 9am-1pm; Mon 2 -Thurs 5 Aug, 10am-8pm of flawless vocals. A small exhibition about Edinburgh’s jazz history will be held in The Central Library, George IV Bridge SPONSORED BY Charlie Musselwhite Band, from 30 July to 5 August. The exhibition contains some of the many items donated to Edinburgh City Libraries as part of the Edinburgh Jazz Archive. The River Devils Mercy, Jamhouse • 8-10.30pm • £15 • STANDING • 18+ Mercy, Mercy An afternoon of Swing and He’s one of the hottest acts on the international Blues Voodoo Rooms Upbeat Jazz with: Edith Budge circuit. Rockin’ out Festivals and Blues joints all over the 8.30pm • £12 • 18+ world. The harmonica player/vocalist has one of the jam sessions The Hub • 4pm • £10 toughest, tightest bands in Blues. Out of Mississippi, but The music of Cannonball and VOLUNTEER Edith's big, bright voice and bubbling personality has rooted in Chicago traditions as well, Musselwhite’s deep Nat Adderley. Soulful, funky, Jazz Bar • Fri 30 July - Sat 7 August • 11pm-1am • £5 • 18+ long been a favourite of Edinburgh audiences. Here groove has a real hard won authenticity. Edinburgh’s swinging jazz that makes everyone Tickets from: 0131 473 2000 / www.edinburghjazzfestival.com The Festival has a team feel good - this new “supergroup” of volunteer helpers - if she is with a brass section, featuring Lennie Herd newest group, the River Devils are led by guitarist and After-hours blow in classic basement jazz club - you might see the (Herald) is fronted by trumpeter, you are interested in and Martin Foster, and top class rhythm section to vocalist, Sandy Tweeddale and shift from searing slide stars of the Festival or a cutting contest between the names of the Colin Steele and alto saxophonist, getting involved please sing a set of classic Jazz and show tunes. guitar boogie to greasy Hammond organ driven grooves. future. Bill Kyle takes the drum chair and hosts the sessions. Martin Kershaw, Steve Hamilton check the “volunteer” Limited places - to take part please contact [email protected] (piano), Brian Shiels (bass) and Alyn button on the website Cosker (drums) are the rhythm team. or call 0131 467 5200. Destined to be one of the major new groups of 2010.

EJ&BF Board of Directors: Cllr Steve Cardownie, Leslie Deans, Brian Fallon, Duncan Lonie, Moira Mckenzie, Cllr Eric Milligan, Paul Nolan, Tom Ponton, Cllr Jason Rust, Jeff Shortreed, Cllr Marjorie Thomas Stuart Brown/John FOUNDING DIRECTOR: Mike Hart MBE • PRODUCERS: Fiona Alexander, Roger Spence Design: edenconsultancygroup.co.uk Botanic Gardens • 1-5pm • FREE Hollenbeck Group Photos: Cover Photo: Benoit Peverelli; Expo Photo Commission: John Need An extraordinary afternoon in the Botanics where The Hub • 8.30pm • £12.50 Colin Robertson, Bob Black; Alain Somvang (Salsa Celtica); Andy Lawless (Curtis Stigers); Getty Images musicians, dancers and storytellers, inspired by nature, Inspired by the sounds of wildlife - from the (Count Basie, Eric Burdon, Howard Alden, Acker Bilk); Joot (Doigt de L’homme); Jimmy Katz (Baptiste perform spontaneously and in small staged settings cross rhythms of geese and electronic squeals Trotignon); Laurence Winram (Toby Shippey); Andy Shaw (Colin Steele, Lizzard Lounge). throughout the Gardens. John Hollenbeck and Stuart of lapwings - two of the most exciting young Brown with their group of Scottish, Dutch and American composers, from Scotland and the US, Brown musicians will play solo, in duos and trios, and the event This document is available on request in Braille, tape, large print, various computer formats, and Hollenbeck unveil the world premiere of will also feature Saskia and Shubhendra Rao (from India); Laura Macdonald and community languages. Please contact ITS on 0131 242 8181 and quote ref. 02282 their new commission. Their stellar US/UK band Bob Pegg and Andy Cannon; Marion and John Kenny; features Theo Bleckmann (vocals) Julian Ramesh and Kim Ho Ip; Rosina Bonsu and Jean Sextet Arguelles and Jorrit Dijkstra (saxes), Gary Edmunson. Check out www.edinburghjazzfestival.com The Lot • 9pm • £10 • 14+ Versace, Paul Harrison (keys), Stuart Brown, for full details. 02282 John Hollenbeck (drums), plus electronics. The passionate and lyrical alto Evocative, atmospheric, surprising, dynamic, saxophonist plays beautiful tone rhythmic: this is music that aims to engage and poems, overflowing with emotion; entrance audiences and to inspire us to see dense, surging music with horn 02282 and hear nature anew. solos over heaving percussion; and wonderfully atmospheric melodies. Laura re-assembles her brilliant Sextet, with Ryan Quigley and 02282 Phil Bancroft.

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Queens Hall The Hub JamHouse Spiegel Voodoo Rooms Lot ROL/Minto/Heriots Jazz Bar Other

Fri Salsa Celtica Freddie King Youngblood Hart Fat Sams Band Kevin Mackenzie Erdmann/LeBras Rae Bros 30 July John Burgess Jam Session Lizzard Lounge (see p4)

Edinburgh Jazz Talk Clandemonium Sat Ruaridh Pattison Mardi Gras 31 July Canned Heat China Moses Old Baileys/Climax Jon Cleary Samuel Hallkvist Martin Kershaw (see p6) Reunion Fred Wesley Jam Session

Sun Django Talk Jazz AlFresco 1 August Fapy Lafertin Gospel (see p8) Tam White Macdonald/Almgren KMCJO Todd Gordon Melting Pot Frank Perowsky Django Film Jam Session The Bays

Mon Swing 2 August Joe Temperley Siobhan Duncan Martin Taylor Orchestre National Melba Joyce Acker Bilk Brian Auger Eric Alexander Peter Green (see p10) de Jazz Jam Session

Nova Scotia Tu e s Malcolm MacFarlane 3 August (see p12) Festival of Swing Niki King Louisiana/Sprits Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Emile Parisien Eric Alexander Elliot/Tweeddale Mario Caribe Jam Session

Wed Joe Gordon 4 August Tommy Smith Peter Vettese Andrew Robb EJFO: Basie Les Doigts Brown/Hart Wisniewski/Trotignon Anthony Joseph Paul Harrison TJ Johnson (see p14) Jam Session

Thurs Chris Barber in Conv Seaside Skiffle 5 August Chris Barber Band Of Eden Red Stripe Toby Shippey Pete Martin King/Adams (see p16) GOL David Berkman Jam Session

6 Fri Piano in Jazz Napier Concert Diplomats of Jazz August Eric Burdon Curtis Stigers Fat Sams Band Haftor Medbøe Gordon McNeill Antique Six (see p18) Elin Larsson Jam Session

Sat TSYJO Blues Afternoon 7 August EJFO: Colin Steele Django A La Creole Blues Evening Ben Bryden Refuge Trio (see p20) Curtis Stigers NeWt Jam Session

Edith Budge Blues Afternoon Naturally Inspired Sun 8 August Carol Kidd Naturally Inspired Blues Evening Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Laura Macdonald (see p22)

The programme is accurate at the time of going to print. The Festival cannot accept responsibility for personnel changes - please look at the website for updates. • Concerts generally last about two hours - unless otherwise stated.