This year's Scarborough Jazz Festival is packed with goodies. Starting at a quarter to twelve today (Friday 26), the long weekend winds down late on Sunday evening. Opening with Jamil Sheriff's 4 in 1, it's a non-stop parade of big hitters and emerging artists.
From Emily Masser and Alex Clarke to Dean Stockdale's 100 Years of Oscar Peterson (it's an expanded eleven piece line-up) to Trish Clowes to the blazing bebop of the Gaz Hughes Trio and Alan Barnes' celebration of Art Pepper, it's all unmissable. And that's just Friday!
Saturday's entertainment ranges from John Settle tipping his hat to Cal Tjader, cellist Shirley Smart to Hot Club violinist Ben Holder, Emma Rawicz's immense Jazz Orchestra to the Jazz Dynamos and the day's closing set from the incendiary James Taylor Quartet.
Sunday, if you're still standing, opens with a familiar name on Bebop Spoken Here's patch - Alexia Gardner! Globe-trotting Alexia, now resident in Northumberland, is sure to make a big impression here at the Spa. Five-Way Split could be the show-stealing set of the weekend. Quentin Collins and Vasilis Xenopoulos front an all-star quintet. Not to be missed! Billy Marrows could prove to be a revelation, Joe Stilgoe and the Entertainers will do just that - entertain! And to bring down the curtain on a marvellous weekend of jazz, it's the brilliant Simon Spillett Big Band playing Tubby Hayes! Russell
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