Stéphane Grappelli

Myra Mackay

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

Music librarian with the RSNO

Myra Mackay

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008

Music librarian with the RSNO

Martin Taylor: Double Standards

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008

In a career spanning more than thirty years, guitarist Martin Taylor has collaborated with a wide range of artists including Stephane Grappelli, Chet Atkins and Jeff Beck, as well as recording extensively under his own name. Double Standards finds the Scottish guitar virtuoso in a duo performance with none other than himself. By recording two separate tracks, Taylor pulls off a set of familiar standards...

Review: Doc is back with sounds of Mexico

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008

It's a lucky man who loves his work so dearly that he goes off searching for more of it in his retirement.

Django Reinhardt — Minor Swing

Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008

Jean-Baptiste “Django” Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 — May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Sinto Gypsy jazz guitarist. He was one of the first prominent jazz musicians to be born in Europe, and one of the most renowned jazz guitarists of all time. His most renowned works include “My Sweet”, “Minor Swing”, “Tears”, “Belleville”, “Djangology” and [...]

Violinist to jazz up BGSU Festival Series

Toledo Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Thanks to her piano teacher, Regina Carter loved playing music. I started on piano before violin at ...

Echo columnists: Nigel gets jazzy

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

NIGEL Kennedy is moving ever closer to a future as a jazz musician.

Echo columnists: Nigel Kennedy gets jazzy

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

NIGEL Kennedy is moving ever closer to a future as a jazz musician.

Music review: Gypsy Festival

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

GYPSY FESTIVAL SPIEGELTENT and MELA

Aug. 3, 2006: Gypsy jazzmen: Hot Club of Detroit

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Back in 2000, guitarist Evan Perri was studying jazz at a small music school in St. Paul, Minn., when he got what religious folks think of as the Call. Except it wasn't God calling home a lost soul. It was Django.

String session

Rhondda Leader (icWales) (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

DUTCHMAN Tim Kliphuis, who ranks among the world's finest jazz violinists, will be the special guest of the Rhondda Jazz Club at their next session at Treorchy RFC on September 2.

Fiddler Mark O'Connor Gears Up For A Busy Fall

Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

Mark O'Connor -- the composer and violinist whose fluency with both classical and American traditions has made him one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary music -- will be busy this fall with a diverse collection of performances and events ranging from performances at Carnegie Hall and Harvard to a collaboration with Roseanne Cash. ...

Lloyd Webber hits out at Fringe box office as tickets go unsold

Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

WORLD-RENOWNED cellist Julian Lloyd Webber today joined the condemnation of the Fringe's troubled box office system after scores of tickets for his concert went unsold.

• Lloyd Webber hits out at Fringe box office as tickets go unsold - News Scotsman

Elissa Altman: A Curry for Lea

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008

I'm sick. My nose fills like it weighs 87 pounds. My head is pounding. My body is aching. My eyes are burning. I think I...

Box-office woes hit sales for Lloyd Webber concert

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008

JULIAN Lloyd Webber, the celebrated cellist, and the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, of which he is patron, may be the latest victims of Fringe box-office problems.

• Box-office woes hit sales for Lloyd Webber concert - Scotsman.com