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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!
Upcoming Concerts:
Glasgow, Scotland: May. 17, 2008
RSAMD, The
Guinness Room 7:30pm
Glasgow, Scotland: Jun. 29, 2008
Glasgow Jazz Festival, Fruitmarket 2pm
North Berwick, Scotland: Aug. 15, 2008
Fringe By The Sea
Glasgow, Scotland: Aug. 16, 2008
RSAMD, The
Guinness Room 7:30pm
Glasgow, Scotland: Sept. 20, 2008
RSAMD, The
Guinness Room 7:30pm
Glasgow, Scotland: Nov. 8, 2008
RSAMD, The
Guinness Room 7:30pm
London, England: Nov. 16, 2008
London Jazz Festival
Stirling, Scotland: Dec. 13, 2008
The Tolbooth 7:30pm
Stirling, Scotland: Feb. 21, 2009
The Tolbooth 7:30pm
Stirling, Scotland: April 4, 2009
The Tolbooth 7:30pm
Reviews and MP3 downloads here
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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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.
[...]
Jazz Centre, Edinburgh,
by Paul Whitelaw
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