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The Mardi Gras is announced
26 Jun 2017
Mardi Gras Full Programme Announced Today On 15 July the Grassmarket will yet again become home to the biggest party in the Capital with multiple stages, non-stop entertainment and a host of bands. From modern jazz, direct from Florida, to a traditional New Orleans sound from a young Norwegian band to high-energy, latin-swing, the
Jazz 100 - Art Blakey
24 Jun 2017
A 1954 recording session resulted in five musicians, including Horace Silver, forming a co-operative called The Jazz Messengers.
Jazz 100 - Tommy Sampson
23 Jun 2017
Scotland’s King of Swing was just one of Tommy Sampson’s accolades. Originally a cornetist with the Salvation Army he developed a talent for arranging and from 1947 his orchestra was the UK’s standard bearer.
Jazz 100 - Dizzy Gillespie
22 Jun 2017
With his beret and goatee Dizzy Gillespie became the symbol of bebop, the music he helped to create in the mid-1940s, and redefined the language of big bands and small groups alike.
Summer Schools Are Sold Out
21 Jun 2017
Both our Summer School courses run in conjunction with Edinburgh Napier University are now sold out.
Jazz 100 - Tadd Dameron
20 Jun 2017
The jazz musician’s jazz musician, pianist Tadd Dameron’s associations made him the natural link between the swing and bop eras.
Blind Boys Of Alabama
20 Jun 2017
We have a very rare show in this year’s Festival. The only UK date by “The Blind Boys of Alabama”. This iconic group has been singing gospel music for seven decades and amazingly is still fronted by Jimmy Carter, who has been there since the start in the 1940’s.