Posts Tagged ‘jazz’

Sunday Jazz Session in Mareel this weekend

Posted by on December 19th, 2012 No Comments

Come along to Mareel Café Bar this Sunday (23 December) from 2pm – 5pm to enjoy a smorgasbord of cool jazz standards and modern jazz-funk classics from Shetland’s finest jazz young-guns Max Tyler, Hayden Zappa Hook, and Norman Wilmore.
Max, Hayden, and Norman are all music students currently studying at Mareel and perform regularly around…

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Karma is coming on Sunday!

Posted by on November 6th, 2012 No Comments

Since Tommy Smith brought his revolutionary group Karma to Shetland a couple of years back they have established a reputation as a devastating live band, including a rave appearance at the recent London Jazz Festival.
Saxophonist Smith is a good old Scottish local hero, one of our leading jazz musicians and composers, an internationally recognised…

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Shetland Jazz up for top Scottish award (vote online)

Posted by on June 6th, 2011 No Comments

Shetland Jazz Club Secretary Jeff Merryfield has been nominated as “Jazz Promoter of the Year” in the Scottish Jazz Awards 2011, presented by the Scottish Jazz Federation and Jazz International.
Information on the awards can be found on the following website, where you can also vote online (Please note that online voting closes at midnight…

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Nova Scotia Jazz Band in Shetland this weekend (13-14 May)

Posted by on May 10th, 2011 No Comments

Guest blog by Jeff Merrifield, Shetland Jazz Club
One of the big successes at the last Glasgow Jazz Festival was the performance of the Nova Scotia Jazz Band in the special showcase of Scottish bands. This is an exceptionally good band, primarily for the playing of cornet player Mike Daly, described as ‘the best kept…

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Looney Tunes animation workshop & jazz concert – Sat 5 March

Posted by on February 23rd, 2011 No Comments

A unique jazz and cartoon film project will take place in Shetalnd at the beginning of March. The Stu Brown Sextet from Glasgow have exclusive rights to play the music of Ray Simpson. Now, Cole Porter you may have heard of, Rogers and Hart you may have heard of, but Ray Simpson! Well, you may…

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