ONE of the world’s leading bass guitarists, Stanley Clarke brings his band to St Luke’s, Glasgow on Monday, July 24. It will be the Philadelphia-born musician’s first appearance in the city since his group Vertu featured at Glasgow Jazz Festival in 1999.
Clarke first came to prominence in the early 1970s playing both bass guitar and double bass with pianist Chick Corea’s fusion group Return to Forever, who played one of the Scottish jazz promotion agency Platform’s first major concerts in Edinburgh at the time, and following a series of solo albums, including School Days, he teamed up with keyboards master George Duke for the Clarke-Duke Project.
He has since become a successful composer of film soundtracks and also featured at Glasgow jazz Festival during the 1990s in an all-star band with Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Omar Hakim.
stanleyclarke.com
THE NATIONAL Youth Orchestras of Scotland's summer season of concerts from music of the Americas has had to be adaptable to keep the show rolling for the young players. The Senior Orchestra's July 20 concert under conductor Maxime Tortelier with piano soloist Sarah Ayoub has been relocated to Stirling's Albert Halls from Dundee after the City Council permitted Olly Murs to set up in the Slessor Gardens next door to the Caird Hall on the same evening.
Now Thierry Fischer has pulled out of the NYOS Symphony Orchestra concerts he was due to conduct at the start of August, featuring the Scottish premiere of a new percussion concerto written for soloist Colin Currie by young American composer Andrew Norman.
His replacement, stepping into direct the same programme with Gershwin's An American in Paris and Aaron Copland's Symphony No.3, is Michael Francis, pictured. Francis last worked with NYOS in 2014, its 35th anniversary year, developing a special rapport with the Symphony Orchestra.
The concerts are at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen (as part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival) on August 3, Perth Concert Hall on August 4, and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on August 5.
nyos.co.uk
EDINBURGH-based American writer Nora Chassler launches her third book, Madame Bildungsroman’s Optimistic Worldview, at the Lighthouse bookshop in the capital’s West Nicolson Street on Friday, July 21.
New York-born Chassler, whose previous work has received praise from fellow writers including William Boyd, describes the collection as "fragments, pensees and table-talk" in which she is helped by a papier-mache mannequin named Madame Bildungsroman.
The launch will feature readings by Chassler and music from poet-guitarist Don Paterson and keyboards player Steve Hamilton.
lighthousebookshop.com
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