Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Jazz and blues, 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.

This is New York based The TEAM's (the acronym stands for "Theatre of Emerging American Moment") fourth visit to the Fringe, but it's the first time that I have seen them perform.

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.

With the sun still with us it seemed like an opportune time to investigate the recently erected tented village at George Square.

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.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival starts a week tomorrow. The EIFF moved from August to June for more "breathing space", but this month's Edinburgh events calendar is still brimming with "festivals" of one kind or another.

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.

Edinburgh's Festivals will share £2 million from the Scottish Government to showcase Scottish cultural and creative talent.

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

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 stage is littered with dustbin lids and childish detritus.  Glittery dresses hang from the rafters and bare lightbulbs pierce the gloom.  I

Barb Jungr was ranked No 1 for The Best Cabaret 2008 by Time Out, New York, No 2, The Best Cabaret 2009 for ‘The Men I Love’ at the legendary Café Carlyle, and is a winner of num

Frances Ruffelle is a sparkling, shimmering star in the world of Musical Theatre, winning a Tony Award for her Broadway role of Eponine in Les Miserables, with lead performances in Chicago, Ll