Board of Trustees

The board of trustees of the Scottish Jazz Archive is made up of individuals with a range of expertise and experience from academia and the jazz scene.

Haftor Medbøe (Chair)
Haftor@scottishjazzarchive.org
Haftor is Professor Emeritus of Jazz & Improvised Music at Edinburgh Napier University, remaining active as a musician on the jazz & improvised music scenes. He holds a position on the Board of Directors, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

Sonny Scott (Secretary)
Sonny@scottishjazzarchive.org
Sonny is musician and postgraduate research student in the field of community archives.

Norrie Thomson (Treasurer)
Norrie@scottishjazzarchive.org
Norrie co-founded Edinburgh Jazz n Jive Club and was for thirty years responsible for logistics at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.

Marian Jago
Marian@scottishjazzarchive.org
Marian is currently Senior Lecturer in Popular Music & Jazz Studies at the University of Edinburgh, is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Jazz Perspectives, has authored a book on Canadian jazz history entitled Jazz at the Cellar, and was a student of saxophonist Lee Konitz for many years.

Graham Blamire
Graham@scottishjazzarchive.org
Graham is a jazz musician and author of the book, Edinburgh Jazz Enlightenment - The Story of Edinburgh Traditional Jazz.

Pedro Cravinho
Pedro@scottishjazzarchive.org
Pedro is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, co-leading the Jazz Research Cluster, and the Keeper of Archives, at Birmingham City University. He is a trustee for the National Jazz Archive and Archives West Midlands and a Duke Ellington Society UK board member.

Sue McKenzie
Sue@scottishjazzarchive.org
Sue is a saxophonist and educator. She is director of the Edinburgh Napier Jazz Summer School, run in association with Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival.