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Arild Andersen/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Celebration – review

4574 days ago
Guardian Music(ECM)The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra won the Best Ensemble category in the Parliamentary Jazz awards this year, and their saxist and director Tommy Smith's youth band released a very professional album in the spring. Now comes the live recording... more info

Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Emergence – review

4672 days ago
Guardian Music(Spartacus)Any band led by the Scottish sax-star Tommy Smith always raises the bar, and this session by the talented youth orchestra he directs is a genuinely appealing album for big-band fans. An inspired choice of material from Count Basie's Moten ... more info

Tommy Smith: Karma – review

4959 days ago
Guardian MusicSpartacusScottish saxophonist Smith, a teenage prodigy in the 80s, is nowadays one of the most widely respected of European jazz musicians – not just for his sax mastery, but for his influence on his homeland's jazz culture through the Scottish Nat... more info

Folk, jazz etc: Tommy's funky Beast will be a masterpiece for Bill to get stuck into

4974 days ago
Scotsman.comONCE upon a time, in a city far away, there was a young saxophonist named Tommy Smith, who was so intimidated by the demonic playing of a jazz giant called David Liebman that more info

Album review: Tommy Smith, Karma

5018 days ago
Scotsman.comTOMMY SMITH: KARMA SPARTACUS RECORDS, £12.99 ***** more info

Kurt Elling/Richard Galliano/SNJO

5030 days ago
Guardian MusicBarbican, LondonIn less than a decade of UK appearances, the Chicago jazz vocalist Kurt Elling has ascended from intimate performances for a handful of people to the standing ovation he received at the Barbican. An imaginative bill partnered him with... more info

London jazz festival: the grand nationals

5169 days ago
Guardian MusicAs the Scottish and French jazz orchestras descend on the capital for this year's London jazz festival, John Fordham asks if it's about time the host nation followed suitIf you'd been hijacked to another galaxy some time around 1925, right in the mi... more info

THE MOST METAL THING EVER SO FAR THIS MONTH: SLAYER CROWD HELPS FAN IN WHEELCHAIR GET A BETTER VIEW OF THE SHOW

5193 days ago
MetalsucksReader Tommy Smith sent us a link to the below video, with the following description: “My buddy went to the Atlanta show and told me about the crowd lifting this guy up in his wheelchair at the Slayer show so he could see. Well, here’s the video ... more info

Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book

5246 days ago
Guardian MusicHe might be the conscience of conductors, but Gunther Schuller is also a virtuoso jazz musician and an acclaimed composer. And that's not the half of it. Tom Service meets himGunther Schuller looks at me and smiles. "The thing that may make me unique... more info

CONTEST/GIVEAWAY: Announcing the Winners of the "Jan Bang - ...And Poppies from Kandahar" Giveaway

5249 days ago
All About JazzRuben Rosado, Tommy Smith, Mark Williams, Angela Winesburg and Marc Nebozenko, Congratulations! You're the lucky winners of the "Jan Bang - ...and poppies from Kandahar" giveaway. All About Jazz will contact you about claiming your prize. We'd lik... more info

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