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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.

Both our Summer School courses run in conjunction with Edinburgh Napier University are now sold out.

The jazz musician’s jazz musician, pianist Tadd Dameron’s associations made him the natural link between the swing and bop eras.

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.

If compositions such as “‘Round Midnight” and “Straight No Chaser” continue to nourish and enrich the jazz canon, those who have adopted Monk’s idiosyncratic, economic and percussive piano style are relatively few.

Mr Sipp reminisces about his first ever show at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival - check it out by clicking here

American pianist and singer, Kandace Springs is our 2017 cover star.