Events
An evening with the Scottish Jazz Archive
Join us to journey through Scotland’s jazz stories using archival materials, pictures, music and film. Presented by Haftor Medboe, Chair of the SJA and Carolyn Scott, SJA volunteer and lecturer in journalism at Edinburgh Napier University. The Scottish jazz archive exists to ensure Scotland’s jazz history is not lost to time but actively used. Their…
Read MoreSJA at EJBF – The Living Jazz Continuum
Presented in collaboration with the Scottish Jazz Archive, The Living Jazz Continuum is packed full of musical memories. Join Graham Blamire, Norrie Thomson and a host of Scotland’s traditional jazz players for a musical walk down memory lane. Lennie Herd, Ian Boyter, Stephen Feast, Martin Kershaw, John Burgess, Martin Foster, Mike Daly, Colin Steele and…
Read MoreSJA Launch – Jazz Stories, November 2017
The intent to establish a Scottish Jazz Archive was publicly floated at an event, Jazz Stories from Scotland, cohosted by the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University in November, 2017. Introduced by Roger Spence (Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival), the event welcomed over 100 jazz musicians and fans from around the country and…
Read MoreCelebrating 40 Year of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
During July 2018, Scottish Jazz Archive presented an exhibition of memorabilia at Edinburgh City Library to mark the 40th anniversary of the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. Items on display included a full set of programmes dating back to the 1978 prototype festival edition alongside tee-shirts, badges, beer mats and coasters, and other related articles…
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