Featuring New York-based vibes virtuoso Joe Locke, saxophonist Tommy Smith and Johnstone’s Scottish National Jazz Orchestra colleague, Alyn Cosker on drums, the quartet will play Watermill Jazz, Dorking on Tuesday 8th, the 606 Club in London on Wednesday 9th, Zeffirellis in Ambleside on Thursday 10th and Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival on Friday 11th.
A former Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, Johnstone has toured
internationally with vocalist Kurt Elling and Vienna-based American saxophonist
Andy Middleton and worked with guitarists Jim Mullen, Rob Luft and Nigel Price
as well as appearing extensively as pianist with the Scottish National Jazz
Orchestra. He is also Tommy Smith’s partner in a duo that plays Lincoln Jazz
Festival on Sunday July 6 and is the first graduate of the jazz course at
the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow to return in a teaching
capacity.
The quartet, in which Johnstone plays Hammond organ, features music
exclusively written by Johnstone. It recorded Resistance is Futile, following its first set of concerts in
October 2023.
“It’s fantastic to hear such accomplished musicians as Joe, Tommy and
Alyn bringing my music off the page,” says Johnstone. “Our first tour included
sell-out concerts in Glasgow and at Ronnie Scott’s and I can’t wait to get
everyone back together for these dates in July.”
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