OUR PEOPLE
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.
Prof Sue Rigby CBE - Trustee
Sue is vice-chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University. She chairs the Cultural Compact for the West of England and has developed a Cultural Strategy and Strategic Plan supported by the unitary and regional authorities alongside Arts Council England. She sits on the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency and recently led a project to revise the credit framework for England, which is the base-code for degree design.
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.