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Fri 19th June at 7:30pm

Georgia Cécile

& Fraser Urquhart

Winner of ‘Best Vocalist’ at the 2019 Scottish Jazz Awards, nominated at the forthcoming Jazz FM Awards, and also tipped as ‘One To Watch’ by BBC Introducing and Jazzwise Magazine, Georgia Cécile is receiving acclaim from audiences and critics on the strength of her live performances. She will be joined by pianist Fraser Urquhart. Since breaking onto the scene eight years ago he has established himself as one of the go-to straight-ahead piano players in Scotland, celebrated for his taste, vast repertoire and for winning ‘Rising Star’ at the 2017 Scottish Jazz Awards.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 34th Glasgow Jazz Festival will be held virtually from Wednesday 17 until Sunday 21 June 2020.  Over the 5 nights that the festival was scheduled to take place, we will support our homegrown Scottish jazz talent by streaming exclusive live performances and screenings.

All of these fantastic artists can be viewed from the comfort of your home via the My Player streaming service. Alongside this, additional music from the vibrant Scottish jazz scene can be enjoyed at your leisure over the 5 festival days.

The Virtual Festival will be free to view, however if you would like to donate to support Glasgow Jazz Festival’s Community & Education Fund you can do so via Paypal for Charity.

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Fri 19th June at 9:00pm

Brian Kellock

Brian Kellock is a jazz pianist with a distinctive, swinging style which may have classic jazz piano at its heart but can never be second-guessed. One of Scotland’s world class performers, who is recognised as a stellar piano talent across the world by musicians such as James Morrison and Michael Moore. Equally at home with mainstream and contemporary jazz styles, Brian plays in the Oscar Peterson / Monty Alexander genre that is closest to his heart. In 2019 he won ‘Best Instrumentalist’ at the Scottish Jazz Awards.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 34th Glasgow Jazz Festival will be held virtually from Wednesday 17 until Sunday 21 June 2020.  Over the 5 nights that the festival was scheduled to take place, we will support our homegrown Scottish jazz talent by streaming exclusive live performances and screenings.

All of these fantastic artists can be viewed from the comfort of your home via the My Player streaming service. Alongside this, additional music from the vibrant Scottish jazz scene can be enjoyed at your leisure over the 5 festival days.

The Virtual Festival will be free to view, however if you would like to donate to support Glasgow Jazz Festival’s Community & Education Fund you can do so via Paypal for Charity.

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Sat 20th June at 7:30pm

Euan Stevenson

In this solo performance of New Focus: The Classical Connection, specially devised for Glasgow Jazz Festival in these times of social distancing, the award-winning pianist-composer Euan Stevenson shares his insights into the relationships between the classical and jazz traditions and illustrates the classical influence on his own composing.

Stevenson and his New Focus partner, saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski, have performed The Classical Connection to considerable acclaim in concert and won a five-star review from The Herald when the duo presented it at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in 2019.

The music here includes an Ellington-Erik Satie “mash-up” and to further illustrate Satie’s considerable influence on the jazz world, Stevenson delivers his hero, Bill Evans’ sublime, Satie-esque Blue in Green from the Miles Davis classic album Kind of Blue and his own Meditation, which is based on Satie’s Gymnopédie Number 3.

Look out, too, for a baroque-era setting of All the Things You Are, a jazz ballad treatment of Liszt’s Liebstraum and Stevenson’s swinging take on the Stuff Smith favourite You Look Good to Me, a long-time staple of another of Stevenson’s heroes, Oscar Peterson’s trio.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 34th Glasgow Jazz Festival will be held virtually from Wednesday 17 until Sunday 21 June 2020.  Over the 5 nights that the festival was scheduled to take place, we will support our homegrown Scottish jazz talent by streaming exclusive live performances and screenings.

All of these fantastic artists can be viewed from the comfort of your home via the My Player streaming service. Alongside this, additional music from the vibrant Scottish jazz scene can be enjoyed at your leisure over the 5 festival days.

The Virtual Festival will be free to view, however if you would like to donate to support Glasgow Jazz Festival’s Community & Education Fund you can do so via Paypal for Charity.

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Sun 21st June at 7:00pm

Jazz Nights Mixtape

Closing our Virtual Festival live on BBC Radio Scotland, Seonaid Aitken looks back with a special mixtape featuring artists who have previously played at the Glasgow Jazz Festival including Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie and the best of Scottish talent.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the 34th Glasgow Jazz Festival will be held virtually from Wednesday 17 until Sunday 21 June 2020.  Over the 5 nights that the festival was scheduled to take place, we will support our homegrown Scottish jazz talent by streaming exclusive live performances and screenings.

All of these fantastic artists can be viewed from the comfort of your home via the My Player streaming service. Alongside this, additional music from the vibrant Scottish jazz scene can be enjoyed at your leisure over the 5 festival days.

The Virtual Festival will be free to view, however if you would like to donate to support Glasgow Jazz Festival’s Community & Education Fund you can do so via Paypal for Charity.

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Sat 31st October at 7:00pm

Mario Biondi

In association with Renegade Communications.

*New date and venue – all original tickets are valid*

Mario Biondi’s unmistakable deep voice is warm and sensual, yet clear and confident.

Born in Catania, Sicily, Mario was a lover of soul music from a young age. His breakthrough single ‘This Is What You Are’ (2006) was picked up by influential DJs such as Norman Jay and Craig Charles. It became a huge hit in northern soul clubs and could be heard on discerning dancefloors worldwide.

In 2006, Schema Records released Mario’s debut album, ‘Handful of Soul’, a wonderful fusion of soul and jazz. The album went platinum in Italy and received widespread critical acclaim.

Mario has worked with such illustrious figures as Incognito (with whom he performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013), Earth Wind and Fire and Chaka Khan, and his albums ‘Sun’ (2013), ‘Best of Soul’ (2016) and ‘Brasil’ (2016) have consolidated his reputation as Italy’s foremost soul and jazz sensation.