Glasgow jazz festival, Wednesday-Sunday
Wednesday sees the first day of this year’s Glasgow jazz festival, the highlight of the city’s jazz calendar. Easy listening king Burt Bacharach, the Stan Tracey quartet joined by Bobby Wellins, Chris Dave and the Drumhedz, the Kevin Brady trio featuring Bill Carrothers, the touring Venezuelan pianist Leo Blanco, and gospel veterans Blind Boys of Alabama, are all in the line-up this year during the five-day festival. Look out too for a Classic Album strand where listeners are invited to fully immerse themselves in the album under the spotlight at a variety of playbacks run every day during the festival, allowing festivalgoers to hear the story behind the album and enjoy an uninterrupted vinyl playback on a high end audio system. Pick of the sessions is A Love Supreme while other albums in the series include Way Out West, Ella at Duke’s Place, Time Out, Sing a Song of Basie and Under Milk Wood.
Tickets www.jazzfest.co.uk
Chris Dave above