Prof  Haftor Medbøe - Chair

Haftor is Professor Emeritus of Jazz & Improvised Music at Edinburgh Napier University where he gained his doctorate in 2013. His internationally published research focuses on communities of practice and artistic research. As a musician, he is an active member of the Scottish jazz scene.

Norrie Thomson – Treasurer

Norrie is a life-long jazz enthusiast who following retirement from Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, was logistics manager for Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival and co-founder of Edinburgh Jazz & Jive Club.

Sonny Scott – Secretary

Sonny is currently completing a Master’s by Research focussing on understandings of archives as dynamic entities of co-production while juggling a career as a touring musician.

Sue McKenzie - Trustee

Sue is a highly regarded musician whose oeuvre spans contemporary classical, jazz and improvised music. She is director of the Scottish Saxophone Academy and Edinburgh Napier University Jazz Summer School and tours her work internationally.

Dr Marian Jago - Trustee

Marian is Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Edinburgh, where her research interests include jazz studies, ethnography, and American popular music of the mid-20th century. Her research has been published in Jazz Perspectives, Jazz Research Journal, and the Journal of Jazz Studies.

Dr Pedro Cravinho - Trustee

Pedro is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, and the Keeper of the Archives at the Faculty of Arts, Design & Media. He researches and writes about jazz, media, and archives, with primary focus on the twentieth-century jazz diaspora social, political and musical history.

Graham Blamire - Trustee

Graham is a central figure in the Edinburgh traditional jazz scene both as a bassist and a chronicler of its bands and musicians. His 2012 book, Edinburgh Jazz Enlightenment, is the key reference text detailing jazz in the capital city and he has contributed a range of additionally valuable resources through the SJA.