McHughs Jazz Festival (12-14 September) in Belfast begins on Friday night with a different-looking Linley Hamilton band getting the festival underway, the trumpeter joined by South African saxophonist Dan Shout, German drummer Markus Strothmann, who played alongside Hamilton in the Masters of Jazz band at the Derry jazz and big band festival in May, with ex-Van Morrison bassist Nick Scott, and pianist Scott Flanigan completing the quintet. Saturday afternoon sees the touring Kit Downes-Cormac O’Brien band appear at 4.30pm, the festival completed on Sunday evening with singer Dana Masters leading a band featuring Flanigan, Strothmann, and Shout, with Nick Scott and Linley Hamilton (updated 11/9) now added.
Dana Masters, above