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Vincent
Photo: Louis De Carlo
Archive Projects
Scottish Jazz & Beyond: 13th -17th August 2019 Edinburgh
A showcase of 3 of Scotland's leading jazz groups that cross-over into other genres including Scottish traditional music and Indian Classical music.
Tickets booking links below.
Featuring:
Tom Bancroft's In Common featuring Sharat Chandra Srivastava (violin) and Gyan Singh (tabla) from India,
and on vocals Gina Rae, and Sophie Bancroft
"this is vividly colourful music ****" The Scotsman
Graeme Stephen's The River featuring leading traditional fiddler Chris Stout from Shetland
"Brilliantly realised...outstanding success" The Herald
Fergus McCreadie Trio Scotland's up and coming jazz piano star
BBC YOUNG JAZZ MUSICIAN OF 2019 FINALIST
PLUS a pop up gig on 17th August at 8pm by
The Playtime Trio. featuring Tom Bancroft (drums), Graeme Stephen (guitar) and Martin Kershaw (saxes) playing one hour of continual improvised music in " Improvised Journey into the Beauty of Inner Space"
Hear tracks and see videos from each band below:
Between them these musicians have received 3 Scottish Jazz Awards, Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Finalist,
BBC Jazz Award for Innovation, Creative Scotland Award, Herald Angel etc etc
The project will be at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:
August 13th - 8-10.40pm The Queens Hall, Edinburgh: Each band plays a 40 minute set in one concert in one of Edinburghs's premier and beloved top-of-the range concert venues BOOK TICKETS HERE
August 14th - 16th 1-4pm Pianodrome - Each band plays a longer set in separate concerts in a unique 100 capacity music venue built out of up-cycled pianos, beautiful, funky and cool. BOOK TICKETS HERE
August 16th & 17th 6.30-10.30pm Out of the Blue Each band plays a longer set in a cool 80 seat capacity space near the centre of Edinburgh. BOOK TICKETS HERE
This project has Made in Scotland funding from Creative Scotland.
If you are an international festival or promoter this means that if you come and see the project in the fringe the bands can get travel support to come and perform for you in your country.
Clandemonium
photo by Ken Windsor
Multi Story Karma Park
Multi-Story Karma was an epic multi-media show that Tom devised in 1996 with collaborators Ruby Worth (dance), David Greig (drama), and Walter McCrorie (animation) and with the support of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival director Derek Gorman and the Scottish Arts Council. The show was inspired by recent events in Bosnia and Serbia and featured the Tom Bancroft Orchestra – with jazz musicians like Phil Bancroft, Oren Marshall, Rick Taylor, and Gina Rae and Dutch musicians Mischa Kool, Jorrit Dijkstra and Joost Buis, plus traditional musicians Martyn Bennett and Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and singer-songwriter Michael Marra. The show featured audience participation, all the musicians dancing, animation, use of footage of the audience, surround sound, and Michael area performing a monologue penned by future theatre great David Greig – at that time an up and coming new writer recommended to Tom by the legendary Tom McGrath – a renowned playwright who was also a jazz pianist. This show was the first time Michael Marra and Martyn Bennett met and worked together – who went on to collaborate on the legendary Grit album. Sadly Michael Marra, Martyn Bennett, Tom McGrath, and Rick Taylor are no longer with us.
it is hard to believe now but there is almost no record of this show apart from this grainy piece of video. If you watch it you can see that Gina, Tom’s wife, is pregnant – their son Sam was born just over a month later, and a year later Tom started the record label Caber Music – both of which events distracted him from this kind of work for a long time…
Many people remember the performance though….
And the after-party was also legendary…. with a VAT of Irn Bru and whisky and a ladle involved…
Bancroft Di Castri Group
Photo: Marc Marnie
