Jazz and blues
Food with Eivind Aarset
Now in their twelfth year and recently signed to ECM Records, this groundbreaking group has toured and recorded internationally creating thought provoking improvised music of great depth and b
Jazz On An Edinburgh Summer's Day
Everyone's moaning about what a miserable Summer we've had here so far. At least, today the Jazz On A Summer's Day event lived up to its billing. Well, almost.
Mardi Grassmarket
The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Fest was striking a more mainstream note today at "Mardi Gras," the free jazz event down in the Grassmarket.
And so it begins...
The streets are filling with more people, the Fringe banners going up, and gangs of men can be seen throughout the city hauling scaffolding and equipment off big trucks. Even the seagulls, whose cries form part of the soundtrack of this city, seem more numerous, no doubt drawn by the wealth of easy tourist pickings.