MUSIC LIST

new band.

0 That Swing Thang Cafe Biarritz. Frederick Street. 225 5244.

9.30—1 1.30pm Crazy swing songs and bow ties.

0 Jimmy Wood Trio Cafe Noir. Waverley Market. Princes Street. 5561374 8.30pm

0 Liz McEwan Dragonara Hotel. Belford Mills. t)pm—midnight. With Jim Henry on piano in the cocktail ; bar. 1 o Templehall Stompers Temple 1 Hotel. Esplanade. Joppa. 669 4264. Evening. Cheerful traddies.

0 Spirits 01 Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. 337 1066. Evening. Dixieland.

FRIDAY 9

Glasgow I o Gillespies 26 Cheapside Street. 221 7704. 8.15pm

0 George McGowan Trio with Linda Fletcher Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Evening. Resident drummers band with singer and guest spots.

Edinburgh

0 Bobby Watson Queens Hall. Clerk Street. Tickets 668 201‘). £4.50 (£3.50) ‘).3()pm.Presented by Platform Jazz. (ireat alto from New York. See panel.

0 Sophie Bancroft Trio Cafe Biarritz. Frederick Street. 225 5244. Evening. ; Young singer going places. i O Spirits Di Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. 337 1066. Evening. The Trad venue.

0 That Swing Thang Bristo Square.

225 6313. Evenings.

SATURDAY 10

Glasgow

0 Dave Newton Solo (iillespie’s‘. 26 Cheapside Street. 221 77114. 8.15pm. Piano.

0 Phil Guy with Jim Condie Band Riverside Club. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 7.3(1pm. £3. (ireat Stateside bluesman teams up with the Dexters‘ guitarist.

0 JanetJumps Bail Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. Evening. Some jazz elements in rock cabaret outfit.

0 George McGowan Orchestra Riverside Club. Fox Street. 2—5pm. £1.

Edinburgh

0 Tam White And The Dexters Platform 1.Rut1and Street. Evening. Nine piece blues. soul with reeds and brass.

o Toto And The Jazz Bostons Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816 2—4pm.

0 That Swing Thang Care Biarritz. Frederick Street. 225 5244 10pm till late. From the heyday ofswing singing.

0 After Eight Mince Negociants. Bristo Square. 225 6313. Evening. Funky jazz/rock.

SUNDAY 11

Glasgow

0 Gillespies 26 (‘heapside Street. 221 7704 8.15pm. 0 Ricki Fernandez And Friends The

Street. Evening. Top drummer‘s '

Tron Bar. Tron Theatre. Parnie

Street. 552 4267. Lunchtime. Lively scene. sometimes a jam session.

0 Perido Pharoahs Bar. Great Western Road. 332 801 1. 8.30pm. Latin influences.

0 Dave Wilson And The Uptown Shufflers Bonhams Wine Bar. Byres Road. 357 3424 Lunchtime.

Edinburgh

0 Tam White And The Dexters Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 2263816. Evening. £1. Solid

blues rock with horns.

0 Jean Mundell And Embers West Hunters Tryst. ()xgangs. 445 3132. Evening. Bar singer.

O Basin Street Stompers Basin Street. Hayrnarket Terrace. 337 1006. Evening. Trad and Dixieland venue. 0 Capital City Jazz Band Crest 1 totel. Queensferry Road. 332 2442. 2.30-4.30pm. Trad band.

Glasgow 0 Jam Session (iillespie‘s. 2o Cheapside Street.221 7704. 8.15pm.

Edinburgh

0 After Eight Mince ()ddfellows. Forrest Road. 220 1816. Evening. Proficient funk jazz.

0 Liz McEwan Styx. (ieorge Street. Evening. Bluesy singer with her quartet.

o Havannah Swing Negociants. Bristo Square. 2256313. Evening.

0 Sophie Bancroft Trio Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. Evening. Young vocalist. straight jazz.

0 East CoastJazz Band Blue Lagoon. Angle Park Terrace. 331 9922. Evening. Resident Trad band.

0 Mr Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. 337 1006. Evening. Blues.

TUESDAY 13 .

Glasgow 0 Bobby Wishart Halt Bar.

~ Woodlands Road. 332 1210.

Evening. Sax and flute maestro leads

5 quartet.

: Edinburgh

0 Swing '87 Malt Shovel. Cockburn

Street. Evening. Django based Hot Club with clarinet and sax.

o Peristalsis Brothers with Brass Negociants. BristoSquare. 2256313. Evening.

0 Liz McEwan/Brian Kellogg Trio

Rutland Hotel. Rutland Street.

9pm. Fine vocals and keyboard. 0 Live Jazz 1 landsels Wine Bar. Stafford Street. 225 5521. Evening.

(iuitarist Dougie Urquart.

0 Sophie Bancroft Quartet ()ddfellows. Forrest Road. 220 1816. Regularjazz songs.

; 0 Louisiana Ragtime Band Navaar

House Hotel. Mayfield (iardens. 667 2828. Evening.

WEDNESDAY 14

j Glasgow

0 Bobby Deans Quartet Cue Ball Club. Anniesland Cross. 8.30—1 1pm Tenor sax blowing hard.

Edinburgh

0 Nicky Hind Assembly Rooms. George Street. 225 3614. 8pm. £3

(£1 .50). Second outing for the young composer's Hindsight. String quartet. bass. percussion. piano. keyboards and two reed players.

improvising over a muted systems score. Love it or hate it.

Forrest Road. 220 1816. Evening.

Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816.

Street, HaymarketTerrace, 3371006.

THURSDAY 15

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f The chameleon talent of Bobby Watson

3 means that he can blow in a sizeable

, modernist band like Winds Of

| Manhattan and play blues inflected sax

in the 30s‘ swing Savoy Sultans. Still in

his early thirties, and one at the most

gifted alto saxophonists, he is no

V stranger to Platform‘s Scottish

concerts. His 29th Street Saxophone Quartet's first British gig caused quite a

stir in Edinburgh and beyond. Like

Charlie Parker he was born in Kansas

and found his voice, indeed various

Dick Lee and Steve Kettley.

0 Peristalsis Brothers ()dd fellows. 0 Charlie McNair‘s Band Preservation

Evening. 0 Louisiana Ragtime Band. Basin

Evening. . ‘Tam White Negociants. Bristo Square. 2256313. Evening. Solo gig.

Glasgow 0 Gillespies 26 Cheapside Street. 221 7704. 8.15pm.

0 Tam White and The Dexters Riverside Club. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. Evening. £2. Edinburgh‘s grittiest soul jazz. nine-piece outfit in a new residency.

Edinburgh

0 Bill Kyle Group Platfortn 1.Rutland

BOBBY WATSON

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voices, sitting in with bands in New York. He worked hard at sitting in, and with his degree in composition from the University of Miami it wasn’t long before Art Blakey‘s eye tell on him and incorporated him into the Jazz Messengers. Watson eventually took overas their musical director. His playing is marked by a passionate inventiveness and avoidance of cool and with his New York Quartet he plays Glasgow on 8 Oct and Edinburgh the following day.

Street. Evening. New York Jazz drummer back home fora while.

0 That Swing Thang Cafe Biarritz. Frederick Street. 225 5244.

9.30—1 1.30pm Crazy swing songs and bow ties.

0 Jimmy Wood Trio Cafe Noir. Waverley Market. Princes Street. 5561374.8.3()pm.

0 Liz McEwan Dragonara Hotel. Belford Mills. 9pm—midnight. With .lirn Henry on piano in the cocktail bar.

0 Templehall Stampers Temple Hotel. Esplanade. .loppa. 669 4264. Evening. Cheerful traddies.

O Spirits 01 Rhythm Basin Street. llaytnarket Terrace. 337 1006. Evening. Dixieland.

FRIDAY Glasgow

0 Chat show Rooftops. 92 Sauchiehall Street. 332 5883. 111.3(1pm. More heroes from the indie sector.

0 Styng Rites Vikkis. 21 Croft Street. Kilmarnock. 111.3(1pm. Still going strong. the Styng Rites don't seem to be gigging quite as often as say a year ago. but they built a good following in that titne with their 1111)"; fun shows.

0 Toy Dolls/Goodbye Mr Mackenzie (ilas‘gow College ol"1’echnology. Cowcaddens Road. 33211681. ‘)pm—7am. £5.51). Special event for freshers. Which will you remember the longest ‘Nellie the Elephant' or ‘The Rattler"?

0 Jamie Barnes and Cochise Furlongs. Platinis. 115 West Nile Street. 9pm. Free. Residency.

Edinburgh

0 Johnny Mathis Playhouse Theatre. (ireenside Place. 557 2591). 8pm. S()1.1)()[."1‘.

0 Bop Sh'Bam The Venue. Calton Road. 55731173. 7.3(1pm. Worthwhile pop combo led by former Question John Robinson.

0 The Big Wheel Lord Darnley. West Port. 22‘) 4341. lilpm. Free. They try so hard to be the tnost commercial pop band ever. but so far haven't got the songs to go with it. Try them if you like that sort of thing.

0 Hungry Years ( 'assis. Abercromby Place. New venue. situated below wine bar.

0 After Eight Mince (to be confirmed). The Music Box. Victoria Street. 221) 17118.£1 afterUpm. Pleasant and proficient jazz-funk combo in another new venue. though somewhat unsuited to the kinds of

bands booked for it. . O The Heaters Preservation Hall.

Victoria Street. 2263816. £1 after

9.311pm. 0 Wasted Days Rolling Stone.

(ireensitle Place. 558 12711.‘).3t)pm. Free. Appearance depends on availability of venue.

0 Back BeatClowns. High Street. 556

1831). 9pm. Free.

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