thejazzbar 5th-28th August 2016 Jazz Funk Blues Acoustic Shows from 1pm daily Bar to 5am nightly! IT'S A YEAR-ROUND THING ... Everybody loves this place! Welcome to Edinburgh's famed, multiple award- winning, totally unique, non-stop focus for top-class music, with its wonderful internal ambience and very cool vibe. We stage multi-genre gigs every day, every week, all year round, as one-third Jazz, one-third Acoustic/Roots/Blues, and one-third Funk/Soul/Electric. Every single night you'll hear a wide range of extremely high-quality music, in a fabulous ambience. Open your ears - it's all good stuff! FRINGE SHOWS In August the venue is used by Fringe Shows, who come in from all over the World to perform here. Each show is totally independent, and they keep ALL admissions money for their shows, which are all listed here, as well as in the official Fringe Programme and Website. To book advance tickets for all shows, use the Fringe Box Office, or you can pay cash (sorry - no cards!) at the door, at showtime. NOTE: the venue does NOT take bookings, nor reserve seating, for ANY shows. Fringe Box Office: 180 High Street EH1 1QS phone 0131 226 0000; www.edfringe.com 'JAZZ BAR MUSIC' As well as hosting those Fringe Shows, we stage our own programme of Jazz and Late Night Funk featuring really excellent local and visiting bands. The Fringe Programme lists these as 'Jazz Bar Music', and advance tickets are bookable via the Fringe Box Office, or you can just pay cash (sorry - no cards!) on the door at showtime. All door money goes to the bands. Full details of who's playing these slots are on the Jazz Bar website: www.thejazzbar.co.uk. CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS Under the terms of our Licence we are obliged to observe City Council Regulations. Each show has an age limit shown. Please check these before bringing youngsters in! We'd hate it just as much as you, to see sad wee faces if we're forced to refuse admission due to non-negotiable Council restrictions. ACCESS, DRESS The venue is in the basement of an older (c1860) building, with access by two flights of stairs down. Unfortunately there is no space for us to create disabled access, and there is no disabled toilet in the venue. Under City of Edinburgh Council regulations, we are obliged to notify that any wheelchair users will have to be carried down and back up the stairs by their own assistants, who must remain with them at all times while in the premises, in case of emergency evacuation. DRESS is smart/casual, but please, no shorts, tracksuit bottoms or flip-flop footwear. Have A Great Fringe! INDEPENDENT FRINGE SHOWS HOSTED BY thejazzbar *LATE SHOWS TIMES CAUTION* Watch out - our 'day' ends at 5am, not midnight! So, a show listed as “Friday, 1am” is actually running late on Friday night. ADVANCE TICKETS can be purchased only from the FRINGE BOX OFFICE. The Jazz Bar does NOT sell ANY Fringe Show Tickets. You can pay cash (no cards) at the door for all shows, at showtimes. (SHOWS ARE IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) ACOUSTIC SWING - GRAEME MEARNS Ice-cool classics and red-hot originals from Scotland's guitar-slinging troubadour. Echoes of Django Reinhardt and Richard Thompson as the inimitable singer/guitarist reinvents 20th century masterworks, breathing new life into songs by Billie Holiday and Cole Porter via Tom Waits, to Joey Ramone and beyond, in a mellow and intimate show. 'Superb' (Skinny). 'Electrifying' (ThreeWeeks). Aug 5, (Preview) 8.30pm, £5/£3; 5.30pm: Aug 6, 7, 11, 12, 20, 22; 4pm: Aug 8, 9, 15, 23; 2.30pm: Aug 16, 18, 28; 1pm: Aug 27, (60min) £8/£6. Ages: PG AFRO-LATIN FUNK: POCION DE FE Be ready for a wild dance party as seven-piece, vocals-fronted Poción de Fe concocts an original spicy brew of Afrobeat, Latino, Caribbean rhythms, Cuban Salsa, and African Mambo, with tight funky grooves and irresistible horn licks! FOUR STARS (BroadwayBaby.com). Aug 11, 16, 22, 25, 28: 12am (90min), £9/£8. Ages: 18+ AMY ABLER: PIANODIVALICIOUS (USA) With touches of Liberace and Victor Borge, the world-touring US pianist/singer is a classical concert artist – gone rogue. Combining virtuosic technique with vivacious comedy (and feathers!), she covers Beethoven to Broadway, Pop to Paganini, Ragtime to Rock'n'Roll: 'One heck of a pianist!' (Theatre Press Australia). 'Bette Midler and Liberace's love child?!?' **** (BroadwayBaby). 'Classical, Blues, Ragtime, Beethoven, ABBA, Van Halen, Jerry Lee Lewis, and back!' (RipItUp.com). Aug 24: 5.30pm; Aug 25: 7pm; Aug 26, 27: 2.30pm; Aug 28: 4pm (60min), £10/£9, Ages: PG ANDREA CARLSON AND THE LOVE POLICE The multi-award-winning Memphis, Tennessee-born singer/songwriter blends musical adventure and intrigue with the sensitivity and wonders of the human heart, in an up-tempo evening of swing, jive and romance. Dare to be transported to another time and place, as Andrea leads her musical Love Police with her sultry-silken vocals, witty lyrics, and enchanting melodies to a 21st-century speakeasy world and the golden age of jazz! 'The first time I heard Andrea Carlson, I was in love!' (Charlie Silvestri, UpCloseAndAcoustic.com). You are sure to fall in love too!. Aug 16, 23: 10pm (90min) £10/£8, Ages: 18+ ASTONISH ME! – JEUX: DAVID PATRICK OCTET Sergei Diaghilev's challenge to all of his collaborating artists was: 'Astonish me!'. In May 1913, this demand brought into being two astounding works – Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', and 'Jeux', Debussy's last orchestral masterpiece. Premiered at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2016, Patrick's reinterpretation of Jeux straddles jazz and contemporary music landscapes, faithfully capturing Debussy's ethereal sound world. His outstanding International Jazz Octet is joined by Mark Lotz (piccolo/flute) and Max Grosch (violin). 'A world-class ensemble, completely at ease with each other' **** (BroadwayBaby.com). Commissioned by Edinburgh Jazz Festival, through the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. Aug 24, 25: 12.45pm (75min) £12.50/£11, Ages: PG ASTONISH ME! – THE JAZZ RITE OF SPRING: DAVID PATRICK OCTET David Patrick's stunning jazz reinterpretation of The Rite of Spring, performed by his International Jazz Octet, has received standing ovations at every performance. It is unique in featuring all of the main themes of Stravinsky's masterwork, seamlessly moving into improvising sections featuring outstanding jazz soloists. 'A triumph... people were on their feet cheering and clapping after the slamming finale' **** (Rob Adams, Herald, May 2013). 'A world-class ensemble completely at ease with each other and this incredibly complex music' (BroadwayBaby.com, Edinburgh Fringe 2014). 'A huge undertaking... Spine-tingling in its power... it works, and brilliantly' ***** (Scotsman, Edinburgh Fringe 2015). Aug 22, 23: 12.45pm (75min) £12.50/£10, Ages: PG BILLIE IS BLUE (Mary May) Acclaimed Scottish jazz singer Mary May and her top-class 4-piece band follow their highly successful previous years' Fringe shows with a set of Billie Holiday's best-loved ballads - and some blues. 'Mary is in a class of her own' (Inverurie Jazz Festival). 'Stunning Voice' (Jazz Aberdeen). 'One of Scotland's best jazz singers' (Aberdeen Performing Arts). Aug 7, 25: 8.30pm (60min) £8/£6 Ages 16+ BLUES AND ROOTS Edinburgh's dynamic Dana Dixon Band is fronted by Dana, considered to be the world's finest female blues harmonica player and singer, and the outstanding electric guitar playing of Dave Dixon. The show features original songs by Dana and classics from the world of Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Rockabilly and West Coast swing, transporting you to Texas, Chicago and beyond. This show has sold out at the Fringe for seven years running - get your tickets now! Aug 12, 20: 10pm (90min), £8/£7, Ages 18+ BLUES! HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRIC BLUES Edinburgh's Main Street Blues is a high-energy 4-piece with a powerful set of up-tempo original material plus new and old blues classics. 'Raw sexy music, loaded with energy. Get in early to ensure yourself a seat – (Four Stars, Broadway Baby)' 'Jubilant atmosphere, packed to the rafters. Face melting guitar solos. A blues band in the truest sense' (BluesInBritain.org). 'So tight you couldn't slide a Rizla between them - Great gig!' (Ian Rankin). Aug 8, 10, 15, 17, 22: 10pm (90min), £12, Ages 18+ BLUES NOW Blues – the base root DNA of modern music – presented by popular Edinburgh four-piece Piranha Blues, playing lovable, timeless standards plus some driving originals. Famed for high energy, quality music, this band is a regular feature of the Scottish blues scene. 'Piranha Blues' arrangements are simultaneously progressive, nostalgic and tributary. Classic covers, delivered with swing, wit and some nice original tweaks.' (BluesEnthused.com). Aug 8, 9: 7pm (60min), £10/£7, Ages PG THE BLUESWATER PRESENTS: THE JAZZ BAR PARTY Big, Beefy Blues sounds as The Blueswater (the full 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues!) perform five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar, one of the UK's best small music venues. 'Expect wild dancing and a fabulous party vibe!' ***** (ThreeWeeks, for Blues!) Aug 9, 14, 17, 21, 23, 12am (90min), £9/£8, Ages 18+ BLUESY TRIO: HOT TIN ROOF Three guys playing stripped back, bluesy tunes about life and the world we live in, with acoustic and electric guitars plus cajon, the trio's shows were a sell-out last year and Highly Recommended by Fringe-Review.co.uk. They're back for their fifth Fringe, playing a mixture of foot-stomping blues and atmospheric bluesy tunes with a wide range of covers and originals from their three highly acclaimed albums.