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The Glasgow Jazz Festival: Jazz Awards
- Christopher Glasgow
- Scottish Music Centre
- 29 Jun 2009
Amid much banter and some exuberant music, the inaugural Scottish Jazz Awards were presented this month as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival. As MC Stephen Duffy of Radio Scotland's The Jazz House observed, if a bomb had gone off, it would have been "the end of Scottish jazz as we know it" – and the event reflected something of just how vibrant a scene that is.
"It's all coming together," was how Tommy Smith put it, receiving the Woodwind award, and reminding us that the country's first jazz academy was due to open at the RSAMD in Glasgow this autumn.
