ABERDEEN promoters Jazz at the Blue Lamp are staging two concerts as part of the city’s popular and long-established International Youth Festival. Italian pianist Manuel Magrini, a graduate of Perugia Conservatory, appears with Heriot Watt Jazz Group, an ensemble comprised of students from the university’s music course, on Thursday, July 27. Then, on Thursday, August 3, the Glasgow-based sextet Mezcla bring the current Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, bassist David Bowden and his predecessor, pianist Alan Benzie, with a programme of music that combines African, Latin American and Scottish influences. Both concerts take place at the Blue Lamp in Gallowgate and begin at 8pm.
jazzatthebluelamp.com
HERALD Angel-winning pianist and educator Richard Michael BEM returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with two shows at artSpace@StMarks in Castle Terrace. Michael, pictured, the long-serving musical director of Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra and popular BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster, has expanded his History of Jazz Piano examination of the great jazz pianists for three performances from August 14-16. He will also give recitals of his favourite George Gershwin and Cole Porter tunes, with insights, observations and anecdotes, in I Got Rhythm - Night and Day from August 24-26.
hfyjo.org.uk
SAN Francisco bluegrass and beyond troupe Dirty Cello play three Scottish concerts on their current UK tour.
Formed round the wildly virtuosic cello playing of Rebecca Roudman, the group plays music in styles from old-time string band favourites to jazz standards and rocking blues.
Their version of Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze has thrilled audiences from California to China and their concerts are likely to include covers of anything from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Peggy Lee hits.
They play Eyemouth Hippodrome on Wednesday, August 2; Stramash, Edinburgh on Monday, August 7; and Montrose Folk Club on Tuesday, August 8.
dirtycello.com
EDINBURGH-based Chilean songstress Valentina Montoya Martinez marks the centenary of Violeta Parra, the singer, songwriter and musicologist who spearheaded Chile’s New Song movement, with a concert in Edinburgh on Saturday [July 22].
The evening will feature Martinez and her band, Voces del Sur, and special guests, the popular Chilean group Hermanos Millar, who are flying in directly from Chile, and will include many of Parra’s own songs as well as songs that she collected during many trips across Chile to preserve the country’s cultural heritage. There will also be readings from her memoirs.
The concert takes place at LifeCare, 2 Cheyne Street, Edinburgh and begins at 8pm.
vocesdelsur.co.uk
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