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The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra
was established in June 2002 and represents the best young improvising jazz
musicians in Scotland.
Please support this endeavour and the young jazz musicians of Scotland by making
a donation - This will provide these young musicians with the best opportunities
to learn and improve by helping out with travel expenses, enabling them to play
in nation-wide concerts, experience sessions with professional musicians...
Thank you!
About the TSYJO:
Formed
by the renowned Scots saxophonist Tommy Smith, the Youth Jazz Orchestra is a
non-profit collective of some of the most promising jazz babies the country
has to offer.
Jammed on to a tiny stage, this 20-strong crew ran the risk of knocking
each other unconscious with their slide trombones and such like, but ducked
and swerved in all the right places to present a cool evening of big band
standards.
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Jazz Centre, Edinburgh,
by Paul Whitelaw
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Download Toronto Reviews (pdf) here...
Recent Concerts:
Dunblane:
07 June, 2008 - 7:30pm
Dunblane Cathedral
Glasgow:
29 June, 2008 - 2:00pm
Fruitmarket,
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Edinburgh:
02 August, 2008 - 6:00pm
Hub,
Edinburgh Jazz Festival
North Berwick:
15 August, 2008 - 8:00pm
St Andrew Blackadder Church, North Berwick
Glasgow:
16 August, 2008 - 7:30pm
20 September, 2008 - 7:30pm
08 November, 2008 - 7:30pm
RSAMD, The
Guinness Room
London:
16 November, 2008 - 01.30pm
South Bank Centre,
London Jazz Festival
Stirling:
13 December, 2008 - 7:30pm
21 February, 2009 - 7:30pm
04 April, 2009 - 7:30pm
The Tolbooth, Stirling
Edinburgh:
07 February, 2009 - 8:00pm
07 March, 2009 - 8:00pm
03 April, 2009 - 8:00pm
The Lot, Edinburgh
EXPLORATION - the album:
The
Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra have just release their first CD "Exploration"
on the Spartacus label.
Find out more here »
Buy it here »
"[...] It's a high-energy set that will come as no small surprise to big
band fans expecting a youth-laden ensemble to be good, but more an exercise
in education than invention." (John Kelman, AAJ)
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