40TH ANNIVERSARY edinburghjazzfestival.com WELCOME IT’S OUR 40TH ANNIVERSARY AND WE ARE IN FESTIVE MOOD 40TH ANNIVERSARY We hope you can join us to celebrate all that that we expect to be THE place for musicians we love in jazz and blues. Whether you are an and audiences over the ten days of the Festival. expert or a fi rst timer, The Edinburgh Jazz & Check out our web page and social media for Blues Festival sets out to have an enjoyable and updated information on activities and events fulfi lling experience for you. taking place at Teviot throughout the Festival. The details of our programme are set out in the For our 40th Anniversary, we have a Gala following pages, but fi rst we must tell you about concert for both Jazz and Blues, and an a couple of venue changes. Exhibition that covers the history of the Festival, since Mike Hart kicked the whole thing off at the Our popular red carpet Festival experience at Abbeyhill Ballroom in 1978. Festival Theatre, and our extra special fi n de siècle Spiegeltent experience remain at the core “Our programme features the best of jazz of the programme, and now they’re joined by and blues from all over the world, and all over two venues that we hope will be features for the Scotland. This year, we celebrate a new wave of Festival for many years. exciting young Scottish talent; we present many musical legends who have marked the Festival’s We’ve responded to audience interests by adding another venue with reserved history; and we continue to introduce you to the comfortable chairs, excellent sound, and great new names we’ve discovered over the last year. sightlines: The Assembly Hall on The Mound. We welcome musicians and audiences from We’ve also been asked so many times to bring everywhere to enjoy our special Festival back a social hub – a place where people can atmosphere – on our 40th Anniversary!” eat, drink, meet, talk, and hear great music too, and we’re delighted to be at Teviot Row for Cllr Jason Rust the fi rst time, where we’re developing a space CHAIR, EDINBURGH JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL How to Book Get Involved Play Jazz / Sing Jazz Online Join the Conversation Sign up to the Edinburgh Napier University www.edinburghjazzfestival.com Get the latest news and special off ers and Summer School or Sing Jazz Course see page 8. share your ideas with us #EJBF2018 By Phone 0131 473 2000 Twitter @edinburghjazz Free Events Facebook facebook.com/ In Person Mardi Gras EdinburghJazzandBluesFestival The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE (Saturday 14 July, page 8) Instagram @edinburgh_jazz Edinburgh Festival Carnival Not only do we have great ticket off ers Volunteers - we need you to bring the (Sunday 15 July, page 12) (see page 5), but we have also abolished all Festival and Carnival to life. booking fees. Please call 0131 467 5200 or email Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 40th [email protected] Anniversary Exhibition (see page 5) Let us know if you want to help with the Festival or join the stewards/costume wearers and dancers at the Carnival. 2 edinburghjazzfestival.com 1 Edinburgh Firsts: K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade - p7 New Venues: Assembly Hall and Teviot Row Great Soul and r’n’b: Bettye LaVette - p16 Scottish Jazz Expo: Alison Affl eck - p23 Vintage Jazz: Bratislava Hot Serenaders - p19 and 22 Blues from America: Mud Morganfi eld - p30 Cool vocals: Kurt Elling - p14 The Festival Club: Late night at weekends #EJBF2018 3 9 6 Queen Street York Place Charlotte St. Andrew FESTIVAL MAP George Street Square Square t Rose Street Calton & VENUES t ree Hill ith S Le Princes Street 8 Princes Street Gardens Waverly Bridge Cockbu rn S North Bridge Castle Assembly Hall 2 t Castle Hill Lawn Market Royal Mile Canongate John ston Terrace Lothian Road t marke 10 Grass C owgate ad t Port Jazz d Ro Wes Cowgate lyroo Bar 5 Ho South Bridge Chamber Street George IV Bridge George Lau 1 rist on Place Festival Theatre Te vio t Bristo Square4 Ni c o George 3 lso Spiegeltent Square n S t Piccolo . The Meadows Melville D rive 7 1 Festival Theatre 4 Teviot Row 10 St Brides Centre 13-29 Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9FT 13 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ 10 Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh EH11 2DZ Reserved seating, fully accessible. Wheelchair Unreserved seating, fully accessible with Bus routes: 2, 3, 4, 25, 33, 44 users should book directly with the Festival wheelchair access via a lift. Theatre. This red-carpeted plush Victorian The new heart of the Festival, with an unreserved auditorium has sumptuous decor, lavish fi ttings seating auditorium on the third fl oor. Teviot has a and presents a modernistic face to the world with Free Event Venues range of catering options from outdoor terraced a glass fronted foyer and bars on three levels. bars to fi ne dining and hosts our late night Festival Mardi Gras Box-Offi ce: 0131 529 6000 Club. Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HS Doors open 30 minutes before concert start time Box-Offi ce: Doors open 30 minutes before Bus Routes: 2, 23, 27, 41, 42, 67 Bus routes: 3, 3A, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 33, 37, 47, 49 concert start time for the fi rst concert and 15 Edinburgh Festival Carnival minutes thereafter 2 Assembly Hall Princes Street & Princes Street Gardens, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LU Bus routes: 2, 41, 42, 47 67 Edinburgh EH2 2HG Reserved seating, fully accessible with wheelchair 5 The Jazz Bar Bus Routes: 1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 24, access via the Lawn Market. Wheelchair users 1 Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1HR 25, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 41, 42, 44 should book directly with Assembly: access@ Unreserved and limited seating, no wheelchair assemblyfestival.com A spectacular neo-gothic building dominating the Mound skyline. Arrive via access. Atmospheric basement venue with the courtyard bar into the main hall which has candle-lit tables and alcove seating. Please check theatre style seating on two levels. (Please note listings. there are steep steps to access the venue) Box-Offi ce: will be on site 30 minutes before the Box-Offi ce: 0131 623 3030 (from July 1). fi rst performance starts. Doors open 15 minutes Opens at the venue two hours before the before the performance starts performance starts. Doors open 30 minutes Bus routes: 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 29, 30, 31, 37, 45, 49 before concert start time Bus routes: 6, 23, 27, 41, 42, 67 FAQs 3 George Square Gardens Satellite venues Advance tickets will be available for collection at Edinburgh EH8 9JZ All venues off er unreserved seating and doors will the relevant venues from doors opening. George Square Spiegeltent open 30 minutes before the concert starts. Unreserved seating, fully accessible. The ultimate Heriot’s Rugby Club Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable 6 break in the performance. cabaret and music salon with a central seating Inverleith Row, Goldenacre, Edinburgh EH3 5QN area circled by wooden booths. Set in the Sorry no wheelchair access, over 14s only (enter Children under two go free to any concerts attractive surrounds of George Square Gardens. via Bangholm Terrace) starting before 9pm (except The Jazz Bar) George Square Piccolo Bus routes: 8, 23, 27 Please note all under 18s must be accompanied by Unreserved seating, limited accessible spaces an adult for any show starting after 9pm Lyra Theatre available please advise on booking. 7 An original styled Dutch “Kermis- circus” tented 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh EH16 4NT venue with tiered rows of benches in a half moon Bus routes: 2, 14, 18, 21, 30 shape gives this venue an intimate, up-close-and- 8 Meadowbank Church Travel By Bus personal experience. 83 London Road, Edinburgh EH7 5TT Edinburgh enjoys one of the UK’s best Box-Offi ce: 0131 623 3030 (from July 1), from Bus routes: 4, 5, 26, 44, 45 bus networks, so there are regular 10am during the Festival. services to all our venues so, if you can, Doors open 30 minutes before the fi rst concert 9 North Edinburgh Arts Centre we’d love you to go green. To help you, we have of the day and 15 minutes thereafter. 15A Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ listed all of the relevant bus links for each venue. Bus routes: 41, 42, 67 Bus Routes: 24, 27, 32, 37 4 edinburghjazzfestival.com How To Buy Tickets Supporters In advance Hub Tickets are our central box offi ce Website: Buy online from www.edinburghjazzfestival.com By Phone: 0131 473 2000 In Person: Hub Tickets, Castlehill Edinburgh, EH1 2NE Other venues: Festival Theatre: 13-29 Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9FT (0131 529 6000) / www.capitaltheatres.com/festival Assembly Hall & George Square: 0131 623 3030 / www.assemblyfestival.com from 1 July. During the Festival Until 3pm tickets are available from Hub Tickets thereafter tickets can be bought INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS: from the venues listed above, otherwise they can be bought 30 minutes before the concert starts. Tickets for concerts taking place pre-3pm will be available on-line and at The Hub up to 3pm on the previous day. Assembly Hall: The on-site box-offi ce opens two hours before the DESIGN: edencg.co.uk performance starts WEBSITE: Vineland George Square: The on-site box-offi ce opens at 10am Teviot Row: The on-site box-offi ce opens one hour before the fi rst Cover Photo: Deneka Peniston (Keyon Harrold) performance of the day starts Festival Photographers: AJ Blair Photography, Louise Bichan (Tom Gibbs), Francois Bisi (Bokante), Louis De Carlo (Brian Kellock), Please note Heriots Rugby Club, The Jazz Bar, Lyra Theatre, Meadowbank Maria Chaves (Curtis Stigers), Earthly Light (Hamlet and Blind Boy Church, North Edinburgh Arts Centre and St Brides only accept cash on the door Paxton), Allan Ferguson (Tenement Jazz Band), Carol Friedman Tickets ordered online will be available for collection 30 minutes before the (Bettye Lavette), Lynne Harte (Vijay Iyer), Icon, Aigars Lapsa (Maggie concert starts from the relevant venue or you can pay to have them mailed out Bell), Alan McCredie (Seonaid Aitken, Konrad Wiszniewski), Mary to your door.