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Michael Brecker
http://www.anthonynolan.org/ All week the SNJO and the inspirational Randy Brecker have been performing the uplifting and effervescent music of his dear brother, the sensational, gentle and humble Michael Brecker. With the volunteers from the Anthony Nolan Trust, who joined us on tour, we’ve tried to make people aware of how YOU can save a life, […]
8 more days until voting!
Longlist Announced Inaugural Longlist of twenty albums announced winning artist to receive £20,000 prize Thursday 12th April, The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) is delighted to announce the inaugural longlist for The Scottish Album of the Year Award. Featuring the twenty highest scoring titles to emerge from the award’s exhaustive nomination process, the list champions […]
video "Numbers"
Tommy Smith & East West European Jazz Orchestra [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWotCpJQ8A[/youtube]
Tommy Smith's Karma / PELbO
Tommy Smith’s latest band Karma opened this concert, drummer Alyn Coskerblasting in for a full-on assault. Karma – also the name of Smith’s latest album – sees the saxophonist in jazz-rock mode. Joining Smith and Cosker were pianistSteve Hamilton and bass guitarist Kevin Glasgow. Cosker provided the motive force – a powerful drummer, he’s equally […]
Tommy Smith's inadvertent radicalism
Scots saxophonist Tommy Smith returns to his and some other jazz roots with his new album Karma as well as paradoxically making a perhaps inadvertently radical statement. He tours the music in Scotland in late June and later elsewhere (see below).
Karma
About the album Tommy Smith’s quartet includes pianist/keyboardist Steve Hamilton and drummer Alyn Cosker off his 2005 Forbidden Fruit album, but this no less brilliant successor is very different. New is Kevin Glasgow on six-string electric bass, and the lingua franca has become an amalgam of Scottish, Irish and Arab folk elements spiced with funk, […]
"Visceral precision and imaginative interplay"
Karma, Spartacus ***** Tommy Smith’s new quartet includes pianist/keyboardist Steve Hamilton and drummer Alyn Cosker off his 2005 Forbidden Fruit album, but this no less brilliant successor is very different. New is Kevin Glasgow on six-string electric bass, and the lingua franca has become an amalgam of Scottish, Irish and Arab folk elements spiced with […]
Emergence
About the album Alto Saxophones: Lucy Kerr, Adam Jackson, Ruaridah Pattison, John Fleming, Joe Wright, Heather MacIntosh – Trumpets: James Marr, Ed Marr, Siobhan Duncan, Sean Gibbs – Trombones: Kieran McLeod, Richard Foote, Kevin Garrity, Michael Owers – Piano: Euan Fulton, Peter Johnstone, Alan Benzie – Acoustic Bass: Andrew Robb – Drums: John Lowrie Lorem […]
'Karma' review in The Guardian (4 stars)
Scottish saxophonist Smith, a teenage prodigy in the 80s, is nowadays one of the most widely respected of European jazz musicians – not just for his sax mastery, but for his influence on his homeland’s jazz culture through the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and its youth wing he founded and still runs. Smith can play […]