Why there is no Ryan Quigley review October 22, 2006
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My plan is to put reviews of as many jazz gigs in Glasgow as possible on this site. Unfortunately, Jazz Glasgow have moved the main night for small-scale concerts from Sunday to Friday, and I already have things arranged for most Friday evenings between now and the end of the year (a season ticket for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – I’m not just going out and getting guttered instead of going to concerts). As a result, there’s no review of Ryan Quigley’s Sextet who played on the 20th, and there’s unlikely to be any reviews of Brian Kellock, Konrad Wiszniewski or Colin Steele next month either. Sorry.
There is still a lot of good stuff coming up which isn’t on a Friday. Highlights include the Count Basie Orchestra, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra playing Dizzy Gillespie, Scott Hamilton, Tommy Smith and Arild Andersen, and this year’s token jazz nomination for the Mercury Music Prize, Zoe Rahman (she is on on a Friday, but one when I’m free). Full details on the Jazz Glasgow web site.
Oh, and I’d like to congratulate the folk running Jazz Glasgow for pulling all the information together into one brochure: it makes it much easier to follow who’s playing when, without having to get one leaflet for Big Big World, another for Assembly Direct, and so on.
Byas-a-drink April 9, 2006
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Byas’d Opinion is a jazz blog. It will contain CD and concert reviews plus some general musings on the state of jazz. I’m based in Glasgow, Scotland, so there will be more coverage of music in and from Scotland than of music from elsewhere. I’ll try not to be parochial, though.
The title, in case you hadn’t already worked it out, is borrowed from a tune by the great tenor player Don Byas.
