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Glasgow Jazz Festival: Variety the spice of opening night
- Christopher Glasgow
- Scottish Music Centre
- 29 Jun 2009
The opening night of the Glasgow Jazz Festival provided ample illustration of how diverse a range of music is currently squeezed under the umbrella label of jazz.
In the Strathclyde Suite of the Royal Concert Hall, soul singer David McAlmont and jazz vocalist Stephen Duffy took contrasting approaches to the rich legacy of songwriter Harold Arlen, while in the booming acoustic of The Arches, Bristol iconoclasts Get The Blessing rolled out an array of influences in their genre-bending music, from trip hop to prog rock and free jazz
