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The National
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The National
Glasgow Jazz Festival showcases more than 200 artists
Across 35 performances many shows sold-out, including those by the Grammy Award winning, New Orleans artist Jon Cleary, the jazz fusion outfit Mammal Hands, Scottish jazz ensemble Rose Room and the Scottish jazz trumpeter Colin Steele. Events included free jam sessions, one-off collaborations, a children's music workshop and book reading, alongside an exhibition by the Glasgow-based photographer Alan Donaldson, which captured local musicians. Rachel Duns supporting Neil Cowley Trio on stage at Saint Luke's (Image: Campbell Skinner) The festival aims to promote female musicians, subscribing to Keychange, an organisation which aims to promote inclusivity in the music industry. Three-quarters of the performances this year featured female artists. Jill Rodger, the director of Glasgow Jazz Festival, said: 'From packed venues to incredible performances, the energy brought by both artists and audiences has been wonderful.' Rodger said this iteration of the event has been "one to remember". The festival has hosted some big names through the years. Legendary jazz artists which have performed at it through the years include Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan and Tony Bennett. Creative Scotland supported the Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025. The festival is set to return for its 40th edition next year.
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Scotsman
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Neil Cowley Trio, Glasgow Jazz Festival review: 'full-on piano'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Neil Cowley Trio, St Luke's, Glasgow ★★★★ Following a seven-year hiatus after their wonderful Spacebound Apes album, the Neil Cowley Trio have a new album and are back on the road – with a vengeance, as manifested by their take-no-prisoners set on the opening night of Glasgow Jazz Festival. Neil Cowley Trio | Contributed The new album's title, Entity, certainly hints at the tightly organic interplay between Cowley on piano, double-bassist Rex Horan and drummer Evan Jenkins, right from their opener, Marble, the piano's stately ringing escorted by thrumming bass and drum mallets. The subsequent scampering keyboard hook of Lemon Meringue worked up a mighty groove, not least through Horan's bass reverberating through our seats. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Cowley had forsaken the ethereal electronica which can shimmer around his studio playing; instead this was full-on piano, as in the unremitting batter of Sharks of Competition, Jenkins cutting loose on drums, at times making you wonder whether they were being egged on by the toy T-Rex perched above Cowley's keyboard. In contrast, Cowley spelled out the spare, lyrical melody of Father Daughter, while numbers such as the title track from the new album, Entity, created expansively rippling arpeggios that the trio could whip into yet another bass and drums storm. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They closed with a trio of tunes that opened with the beautifully meditative Grace, before cranking up yet more intense drive – jazz piano trio as rock band.
