Tommy Smith & Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

SNJO website Saturday 12 Sept - Concert Hall, RSAMD, Glasgow 7:30pm

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SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA

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play the music of WAYNE SHORTER featuring GARY BURTON directed by Tommy Smith Vibes master Gary Burton joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to pay tribute to another of jazz’s true greats, saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter -

• creative force with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers
• crucial member of Miles Davis’s quintet
• co-leader of fusion masters Weather Report
• enduring inspiration to a world-wide audience.

Featuring Shorter jewels including:-

• Nefertiti, ESP and Virgo Rising
• commissioned arrangements by Mike Gibbs, Joe Locke, Issie Barratt, Florian Ross, Manu Pekar, Michael Abene, Christian Jacob and Geoffrey Keezer

Burton and SNJO present music of extraordinary subtlety, passion and melodic character played by a first rate orchestra of collective skill and solo firepower.

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Teachers! Teaching students! Scottish Learning Festival

Celebrating Excellence in Learning

23-24 September

SECC, Glasgow.

Visit the website here.

Warwick Folk Festival

24-26 July 2009. Visit the website here.

Karen Marshalsay, Scottish clarsach player, releases two new harp books this month:-

• The Clarsach Collection
• First Steps

Find out more!