Jazz

One of the animation components in the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, running at The Traverse, was Chico & Rita, a certificate 15, fea

45 talented musicians of the Royal Marines Band (Scotland) present their annual concert in aid of the charity Seafarers, with a  selection of traditional military music, the renowned Corps o

The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it - "the largest show on Earth".

The stats bear that out: the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe saw 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 Fringe venues. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances. There were also 607 free shows at the 2011 Fringe.

I had no idea what to expect of this evening concert, but it was recommended by a friend and that was enough to swing me in the direction of the Queen's Hall for my first Edinburgh Jazz Festival gig.

The crowds were out for the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Mardi Gras in the Grassmarket today. After weeks of overcast, wet weather, and the recent deluge that, in Morningside, saw flash floods washing cars down the road and pedestrians wading waist-deep up the street, the festival organisers must have breathed a collective sigh of relief that the event was not another wash-out.

Portland, Oregon based troupe that, in its own words, "draws inspiration from the romantic Hollywood musicals of the 1940s or ‘50s … with a more global perspective."

The summer's major Scottish rock festival, organised by DF Concerts, is named after its chief sponsor, the brewing company Tennents.

The free Mardi Gras, part of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, launches Edinburgh's Festival season with customary brio. The multiple stages and marching bands bring a splash of colour and the sounds of New Orleans styled jazz to the streets.

Six piece Jazz band merging lyrical Nordic jazz-sounds with cosmopolitan grooves and attitudes.

The annual Edinburgh Jazz and Blues festival runs the gamut of jazz persuasions from more traditional Dixie and ragtime bands to up-and-coming stars, from big band concerts to Latin dance music. The EJBF comes the month after the Edinburgh International Film Festival and gets the August Festivals season going.

The time is memorable - 1pm on 1-1-11. The show should be too with five of Scotland’s leading song-writers, Dougie MacLean, Roddy Woomble, Roddy Hart, Tommy Reilly and Dick Gaughan, performing specially written Resolution Songs commissioned by Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.

The Mound precinct is reinvented for the duration of the 4-day Edinburgh’s Hogmanay festival as Resolution Square, with a host of live entertainment t

The Jazz Festival winds down with this free, outdoor event.

The Central Library tonight launched its recently gifted Edinburgh Jazz Archive covering over 60 years of jazz in Edinburgh.

Following yesterday's Mardi Gras, the tables and chairs come out in the Grassmarket for a more sedate afternoon of jazz, on th

The 32nd Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival runs from the 30th July to the 8th of August, with 110 acts playing at venues across the city. It attracts the largest audience of any Jazz Festival in the UK.

Assembly Theatre has announced it will create a new city centre Fringe venue in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens, set against the stunning backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Assembly says the venue will re-invigorate the Ross Bandstand site with a special sub-structure to create an elevated platform for a Belgian dance tent along with a Festival garden bar in association with Bulmers.

The young husky-voiced,  jazz pianist hits Edinburgh after a tour of the big jazz festivals

NYOS presents two of its young ensembles in a varied evening of classical music and jazz favourites.

Songs For An Airless Room styles itself as somewhere between theatre and a piece of music to be performed. If this is fairly grandiose and self-regarding it nevertheless is an ambitious collaboration between live musical performance and screened film.