A Christmas Festival of Jazz

Enjoy this wonderful pre Christmas opportunity to relax and get into the festive spirit as the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra bring you a double bill of fabulous swinging jazz. 

The Legend of Charlie Parker  

There can be little doubt that Charlie “ Yardbird” Parker changed the face of modern jazz. Parker grew up at a time when this amazing music was coming of age, and he came to personify many of its most provocative features.

BENNY GOLSON in SCOTLAND

Benny Golson’s SNJO gigs aren’t just a trip down Memory Lane by Jim Gilchrist THE past, as we all know, is a foreign country, and Benny Golson doesn’t much care to dwell there too long. The hugely influential veteran jazz musician will, however, delve into his back catalogue – if on his own terms – […]

The Music of the Yellowjackets featuring Bob Mintzer

The expressive saxophone playing and masterly writing of Bob Mintzer have kept The Yellowjackets at the forefront of jazz since the early 1980s.

Courtney Pine: Revisiting Coltrane

No one better embodies the dramatic transformation in the British Jazz scene over the past twenty years than Courtney Pine.