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Hello!
Heres your guide to
everything thats
happening in the 2009
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues
Festival. Its our 31st
edition, and we invite you
to come and enjoy the
host of concerts, club
gigs, jam sessions, street
parties and events that
weve planned.
Edinburgh
Jazz Festival
Orchestra
Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra 2009
Trumpets: Kevin Ferris, Ryan Kisor, Ryan Quigley
Trombones: John Allred, Phil O'Malley, Rick Taylor
Saxophones: Alan Barnes, Phil Bancroft, Jay Craig,
Loren Stillman, Joe Temperley, Bobby Wellins
Piano: Davd Milligan
Chet Baker
The Jazz Festival celebrates the most
romanticised icon in jazz, famed for his
melancholy trumpet, his fragile tenor voice and
the sexy, angelic, needy and forbidding aura.
His life was a wild ride from his emergence in
the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young
trumpeter on the West Coast to become
almost overnight the prince of cool jazz - until
his violent drug related death in 1988.
On Stage
On Film
In Conversation
Scotsman Talks
Angelic looks; a trumpet sound
of pure silver; a fragile endearing
voice; Chet was a romantic idol. But
his life was marred by weakness
for drugs and women, trust and
respect.
Enrico Pieranunzi, who played and
recorded with Chet in his Italian era,
will be joined by Mike Maran and
Colin Steele in a Scotsman Talk
to discuss the enigma that is
Chet Baker.
Outdoor
Events
Mardi gras
Saturday 1 August FREE
Grassmarket 1-4pm
Parade departs City Chambers at 12.30pm
Outdoor
Events
Jazz on A
Summers Day
Sunday 2 August FREE
Ross Theatre, Princes Street Gardens 1-5.30pm
Bask in the sun, bring a picnic and listen to some great jazz
sounds in the magnificent surrounds of Princes Street
Gardens, in the shadow of the Edinburgh Castle. The biggest
jazz event in the UK offers the opportunity to sample some of
the Festival's older styles of jazz, presented by singer Todd
Gordon. Edinburgh Schools Jazz Orchestra get the ball rolling
followed by No Name Horses, plus the mighty 80 strong Forth
Valley Chorus, Mike Hart's Society Syncopators, Tricia Boutt,
The Criterion Parade Band and ending with the famous RAF
big band - The Squadronaires.*
* with thanks to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Grassmarket
Sunday Market
Sunday 2 August FREE Grassmarket 1-5pm
While the afternoon away browsing through the market stalls or
sampling the wares of the excellent hostelries of the Grassmarket.
KBB Big Band from Alesund in Norway, Polich Krakow band and
Rosy Blue Duo provide the swinging musical jazz entertainment.
Jazz Norway
Toyota I Fonden
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Friday
July
My Funny
Valentine
Bosco 7pm 10
Acclaimed theatrical show
based on the story and
music of Chet Baker,
presented by Mike Maran,
with music from Colin Steele
and Dave Milligan. In 1961 Chet was in jail in Italy. His
cellmate was also with him when he died 28 years
later. Now this man shares his story. Beautifully
conceived and executed, mellow and melodic
(The Observer).
Atomic
Sinne Eeg
Saturday
August
PLUS SUPPORT
Doky/Johansen/Ozone/Smith
The Hub 8.30pm 14
A supergroup of four of the hottest musicians in world jazz. Bassist,
Chris Minh Doky, a fixture of top level New York jazz, as a member of
Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Chick Corea and his own bands. Makoto
Ozone, was a long time member of Gary Burtons Band and is widely
regarded as the top Japanese jazz musician. Saxophonist,
Tommy Smith played with Ozone in Burtons band, and
twenty years later is back on ECM Records with the
powerful trio co-led with Arild Andersen. Jonas
Johansen is one of the leading drummers in
Europe; swing and power combined.
Tom Gordon
Mirror Image
My Funny Valentine
Bosco 8pm 10
Its 1961 and Chet Baker is in jail in
Lucca. Italians strolling around
the town walls stop and listen to
the sound of Chets golden
trumpet wafting through the
prison bars. Mike Marans drama
features live music from Colin
Steele and Dave Milligan.
Courtney Pine
Tradition In Transition
Sunday
August
Dick Hyman
Piano Legends
with Chris Hopkins & Bernd Lhotsky
The Hub 8.30pm 20
A living legend of jazz piano, Dick Hyman has
played swing with Benny Goodman, gained
academic acclaim and won accolades as Woody
Allens favoured Musical Director. Yet he always
returns to his first love, early jazz piano ragtime,
stride, stomps and swing. Lately hes made two
hugely acclaimed piano duet records with
Lhotsky and Hopkins following his interest in the
music of James P Johnson, Fats Waller and Earl
Hines. Tonight on two grand pianos they
showcase piano music from the 1920s and 30s.
Enrico Pieranunzi
Scarlatti
Gospel
Concert
with
Tricia Boutt
St Cuthberts
Church
6-7pm FREE
A special fundraising gospel concert
in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust,
featuring the big freebooting voice
of New Orleans singer Tricia Boutt
fronting a specially assembled band
with pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen.
Joyful music.
SUPPORTED BY
SIR TOM AND LADY FARMER
The Thing
Ryan Kisor
Quintet
Voodoo Rooms
8pm 10 (seated)
The New York
trumpeter is a player
of power and charm,
with a string of highly
acclaimed albums as leader in the
classic NYC post bop vein. Here he
is with a high octane all star band
featuring US bassist, Darryl Hall, and
Italian drummer, Enzo Zirilli.
My Funny Valentine
Bosco 8pm 10
Edith Budge
The Minto Hotel
8pm 9.50
The singer with the big bright
sound and warm heart invests
real charm in the Great
American songbook. Tonight
she celebrates the great ladies
of jazz with standards, belters,
blues and ballads.
Monday
August
Echoes of Swing
& Creole Clarinets
The Hub 8.30pm 15
Seaside Skiffle
Royal Overseas League
12.30pm 8
Ken Colyer invented it and Lonnie
Donegan made it famous. Deep
south blues and country meets
English 50's working class passion.
Eric Wales and Jerry O'Regan
(vocals/guitar), with Hamish
McGregor (bass, maybe Tea
Chest bass!) and Ken Ford
(drums/washboard).
Batchelors Of Jazz
Bosco 8pm 12
Spirits of Rhythm
and Thomas
l'Etienne
Ken Mathieson Classic Jazz Orchestra
with guest Alan Barnes
The Hub 6-7.30pm 12 (no interval)
Playing the music of Benny Carter. Ken Mathieson's octet features
the cream of Scottish classic jazz talent, joined tonight by the
effervescent clarinettist and alto saxophonist Alan Barnes playing
Carters role. A rare chance to hear music by one of the great
giants of swing to bop. Terrific music, imaginative arrangements
and strong playing with great panache (The Herald).
Todd Gordon
August
Carl Majeau Qt
Jamhouse 8pm 15 (cabaret style seating)
Tuesday
Bosco 8pm 10
From Lyon, this band are rocking the gypsy jazz tradition into a
new direction, without chucking away the core values of
swing and fiery guitar solos. They are three guitar players and
a bassist with rock sensibilities to go with their Django roots.
Their strength is in the force of their collective personality, a
vision of Manouche music in a contemporary world, and the
musicianship to deliver it with huge impact, passion and spirit.
Wednesday
August
Dick Hyman:
Harpsichord Swing
Elephant9
Voodoo Rooms 9pm 10
(standing)
A seventh heaven nod to Hendrix,
Berlin-era Bowie, Tangerine Dream
and Fripp alongside mid-70s Miles
(Time Out). Supersilent keyboarder
Stle Storlkken fronts a full on
rock-jazz organ jam band who play
everything at full tilt, and create
fabulously exciting atmospheres reminiscent of the heyday of the
Hammond-B3 trios of the 70s. With
Nikolai Hngsle Eilertsen (bass)
and Torstein Lofthus (drums).
Swing 2009
Royal Overseas League
12.30pm 8
Inspired by the 40s Parisian Hot
Club music of Django Reinhardt,
aswell as the chamber-jazz swing
groups from New York, Swing 2009
feature the spirited soloing of
clarinetist, Dick Lee and guitarist,
Stephen Coutts, and the
sophisticated arrangements driven
by John Russell (guitar) and Roy
Percy (bass).
Melting Pot
Voodoo Rooms
9pm 10 (standing)
Jeremy Monteiro:
Singapore Swing
With guests: Alan Barnes/John Allred
The Hub 8.30pm 12
Top of the tree jazz from Singapore. Monteiro
is a phenomenal pianist who works all over the
Far East and the USA, with US stars and the
best Asian jazz players. Here he introduces
guitarist, Andrew Lim, and invites two of the
best loved soloists in mainstream jazz. quite
possibly the greatest musical interpreter of our
time (Time Magazine).
Fifty years after Lady Day passed away, shes still everywhere in
popular music, one of the most distinctive voices of the 20th Century.
Scotlands leading young jazz singer has put together a show that
celebrates Holidays songs and rekindles that emotional openness
that communicates so directly with audiences with King's subtly
bluesy, smoke-and-velvet voice" (The Scotsman).
Moishe's Bagel
Queen's Hall 8pm 15, 12.50
Exhilarating, full-flavoured stuff, often breathtakingly intricate but played with jubilation... the
Bagel acquires the momentum of an express train"
(The Herald). A band of Scotlands finest musicians
conjure up an intoxicating, life-affirming mix of
Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern
rhythms, and jazz-inflected Klezmer. Moishes
Bagel are Greg Lawson (violin), Pete Garnett
(accordion), Phil Alexander (piano), Mario
Caribe (bass) and Guy Nicolson (percussion)
Thursday
August
Joe Gordons
Ragtime Banjos
Royal Overseas League
12.30pm 8
A Festival institution now, and
consistently a sell out. The veteran
White Heather Club singer and
banjo player loves traditional jazz,
and plays rags, stomps,
blues and swing tunes with
great entertainment value.
Brass Jaw
Paris Washboard
and Mike Harts
Society Syncopators
Jamhouse 8pm 12.50
(cabaret seating)
Friday
August
Jamhouse 8pm
15 (cabaret style seating)
High energy, toe-tapping , fingersnapping music in the vein of
Louis Jordan, Louis Prima or
Basie. The nine-piece band is a
throwback to the jump and
swing bands of the 30's and 40's
and they have their own Cab
Calloway in the charismatic
leader, Hamish McGregor. Great
music and great entertainment.
Napier University
Jazz Summer School
The Lot 2pm 5
Havana Swing
Royal Overseas League
12.30pm 8
Terrific five-piece band play classic
gypsy swing of the 30s and 40s
colliding with the sophisticated jazz
of musicians like Duke Ellington.
Barbara Morrison
PLUS SUPPORT
The Outhouse
7.30pm and 10.15pm 15
Loren Stillman/Kevin
Mackenzie Quartet
Ibrahim Electric
Baptiste Trotignon
Saturday
August
Stu Brown's
Raymond Scott
Project
Classic big band tunes from Ellington to Maria Schneider delivered with
verve and youthful enthusiasm. Tommy Smith has recruited Scotland's
best young jazz players and drilled them into a crack, inspirational unit.
Carol Kidd
Ibrahim Electric
Konrad Wiszniewski
Quartet
Barbara Morrison
The Outhouse
7.30pm and 10.15pm 15
Bluesy take on the Great American
Songbook from the great singer who
worked with Ray Charles for seven years.
Sunday
August
Edinburgh
Blues Festival
Lightnin Willie And
The Poor Boys, Lyndon
Anderson Band, Al Hughes
Jools Holland
and his Rhythm &
Blues Orchestra
Lightnin' Willie
Dave Edmunds
Maggie Bell, Scotlands best known Blues singer is back with the band
that knocked audiences out three years ago an all star group of British
Blues; musicians who have played with Alexis Korner, Bob Dylan, John
Lee Hooker, Whitesnake, Stone The Crows and many others. Its a
rocking party, kicked off by Edinburgh's blues heroes, Blues n' Trouble.
PLUS SUPPORT
Playhouse 8pm
32.50, 30 & 27.50 plus booking fee
Grand finale from legendary blues and boogie
woogie piano star Jools Holland has always said
what he loves best of all is to play live - and it shows!
For one night only at Edinburgh Playhouse, Britain's best
known bandleader and pianist has assembled a special line
up featuring singer Dave Edmunds (I Hear You Knocking")
and soul stars Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall.
Barbara
Morrison
The Outhouse
7.30pm and 10.15pm 15
Another set from swinging singer
with storytelling intensity and
huge personality, accompanied
by Tom Finlay Trio.
Maggie Bell
Otis Grand
US guitarist, Otis Grand, takes time out from recording his latest CD
to put together a smaller band and get back to basics in the style of
1966 BB King and his combo" during King's legendary residency at
Chicago's Burning Spear" club. Gerry Jablonski is one of Britain's
best and most underrated blues guitar heroes. Black Smoke are a
great discovery featuring vocalist/guitarist, Bugsy MacLean.
Play Jazz
Edinburgh Napier University
Jazz Summer School
A week long intensive, hands-on course covering theoretical and
practical approaches to improvisation and performance. Designed
to develop jazz playing skills for musicians of all ages and abilities,
the course includes instrumental and ensemble coaching from
Scotlands finest professional jazz musicians/educators under the
directorship of Edinburgh Napier Universitys Jazz Musician in
Residence Haftor Medbe.
Comment from
Hosted at the Universitys superbly
previous students:
equipped Music School the course takes
place in the idyllic Craighouse Campus,
...a fantastic course
and offers opportunities to hear concerts that Id recommend..."
at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival in
...thoroughly enjoyable
the evening. The week culminates in a
and would like to
public performance by the students
participate
again."
performing in ensemble groups.
DATES: Mon 3 - Fri 7 August 2009
TUTORS: Laura Macdonald, Konrad Wiszniewski (reeds);
Haftor Medbe (guitar); Tom Gibbs (piano); Mario Carib (bass);
Stuart Brown (drums)
Scotsman Talks
Want to know more about jazz? - join us for two informal,
informative and interactive talks, with the opportunity to take
part in question and answer sessions.
Chet Baker:
Please check the website for more updates on topics and speakers.
jam sessions
VOLUNTEER
The Festival has a team of volunteer
helpers - if you are interested in getting
involved please check the volunteer
button on the website.
Ian Rankin
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Book Online:
Supporters:
www.edinburghjazzfestival.com
All tickets from:
0131 473 2000 or in person from The Hub box office
(Castlehill)
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Please note: on the day of a concert, we stop selling tickets
at 4pm. They are then available 30 mins prior to the start
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to Hub concerts or Queens Hall, if calling venue box
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Toyota I Fonden
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Sun
August
(see P19)
Sat
August
(see P18)
Fri
August
(see P17)
Thurs
August
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Wed
August
(see P15)
Tues
August
(see P14)
Mon
August
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Sun
August
(see P12)
Sat
August
(see P11)
Fri
July
Jools Holland
EJFO: Burns
Bruce/Trower/Husband
Moishes Bagel
EJFO: Ellington
Jacques Loussier
Courtney Pine
Eric Burdon
Hargrove/Kellock
Carl Majeau
Peter Rosendal
The Thing
Tom Gordon
Alyn Cosker
Lot
Batchelors of Jazz
Seaside Skiffle
Edith Budge
ROL/Minto/Outhouse
Carol Kidd
TSYJO
Jeremy Monteiro
Smith/Karlzon
Paris Washboard/
Mike Hart
Graeme Stephen
Ibrahim Electric
Konrad Wiszniewski
Ibrahim Electric
Stillman/McKenzie
Melting Pot
Elephant9
Niki King
Haftor Medbe
Napier Concert
Brass Jaw
Domancich/Macdonald
Barbara Morrison
Barbara Morrison
Barbara Morrison
Havana Swing
Joe Gordon
Swing 2009
Blues Night
Les Doigts
Phil Bancroft
My Funny Valentine
My Funny Valentine
Atomic
My Funny Valentine
Bosco
Stanton Moore
Ryan Kisor
Hamish Stuart
Joe Acheson
Voodoo
Spirits of Rhythm
Dwayne Dopsie
JamHouse
KMCJO
Echoes/Creole Clariniets
Joe Temperley
Pieranunzi: Scarlatti
Doky/Johansen/
Ozone/Smith
No Name Horses
Sinne Eeg
Hub
Jam Session
Jam Session
Patrick Kunka
Jam Session
Jam Session
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.
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Queens Hall
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Baptiste Trotignon
Dave Donohoe
Beat Jazz
George Penman
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