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Swing Guitars
Scotlands pre-eminent guitar duo Swing Guitars came together through a mutual admiration of the music of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, but the duo are not concerned about slavish imitation and infuse the music with their own highly spirited personal style. Now well established on the live circuit and festival scene, Swing Guitars have gained a deserved reputation as a formidable and highly entertaining live act. Since first coming to prominence... [Read More...]
Academy Swing
“Academy Swing”, the swing band of Rothesay Joint Campus have been performing at the Bute Jazz Festival since 2004 and this year will be opening the festival. The band has made quite a reputation for itself in the past few years and performs regularly in the local community and further a field at venues such as the Loch Fyne food fair. It has also toured regularly throughout Argyll giving community concerts and schools demonstration performances... [Read More...]
Bobby Wishart Group
Bobby Wishart is one of the greatest jazz musicians in the UK. His band is a byword for quality and one of the finest combos performing today. When you consider the people that Bobby has worked with you begin to realise why he has such a big reputation in the world of music. Over the years Bobby regularly performs and broadcasts with his own groups which feature the very best of the young, as well as the more established Scottish players including… Carol... [Read More...]
Keith Stephen’s Hot Club Trio
The band plays the music of Django Reinhardt and Hot Club style jazz. The band consists of Keith Stephen on lead guitar, 6-string banjo, tenor banjo and ukulele; Roly Veitch on rhythm guitar and vocals and Bruce Rollo on double bass. Young singer Caroline Irwin joins the band on certain gigs. The band is sometimes augmented with a reed player or violin. The band have played with Bill Smith (reeds), John Hallam (reeds) and Mike Piggott (violin) on... [Read More...]
Penman’s Jazzmen
Formed in 1959 ‘The George Penman Jazzmen’ established a large following for their music. The musical capabilities of the band were proven when in 1961 they won a Scottish Band Championship and in the following year lifted all the major awards at the North Scotland Jazz Festival. With numerous appearances on Radio, Television and recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios with Thorn/EMI label the band have gone from strength to strength. Sadly George... [Read More...]
Brass Impact
Live & Swingin’ is Scotland Premier tribute to the kings and queens of big band jazz and swing (past and present) and a nice helping of blues, rock, Motown and soul, if you need it. Based in Paisley, and playing in the style of the ever popular big bands, their main aim is to provide audiences with the opportunity to experience big band like they’ve never heard it before. The horn section, made up of trumpets, mellophones,... [Read More...]
The Big Chris Barber Band
British jazz trombonist Chris Barber celebrates his 60th year as a bandleader in 2008-2009. Inspired by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, Chris formed his first Barber New Orleans Band in 1949 at the age of nineteen. In 1953, along with Monty Sunshine and Lonnie Donegan, he joined forces with Ken Colyer. Then, with the replacement of Colyer by Pat Halcox, Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen became Chris Barber’s Jazz Band in 1954 and has been one of... [Read More...]
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