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Mark McKergow

Mark McKergow is one of the most versatile jazz saxophonists in Scotland. He’s played everything from New Orleans, swing, bop, big band to free improvisation, writes for UK Jazz News and currently performs with the Lauders Big Band and Shunpike Social Club, as well occasional shows with his own quartet. He is also a recovering (nearing retirement) physicist and management consultant and the author of books on coaching and organizational change. Way back in the 1990s Mark led UltraSound, a 19-piece contemporary jazz orchestra based in Bristol. They were supported by the Arts Council of England and performed at London's South Bank Centre (twice) and the Glastonbury Festival

Laurie Moore Trio at Leith Jazz & Blues Festival

by Mark McKergow
June 11, 2026

Laurie Moore Trio Bowler's Rest, Leith A Tribute to the Bass Boss Edinburgh June 6, 2026 Young double bassist Laurie Moore confidently led his trio through two full sets of A Tribute to the Bass Boss, celebrating the music of bass legend Ray Brown. The musicianship was top-class, the program well ...

Annaliesa Rose

Born: December 21, 1982

Annaliesa Rose – Singer, Musician, Composer

Annaliesa Rose (BMus (jazz) (ANU), GradDipEd (UNE), MAM (MBA equiv)(Australian Institute of Music)) is a versatile musician (vocalist) and composer who has been involved in music and the performing arts her whole life from music, drama, dance and visual arts. 

Since 1999, Annaliesa has been performing around Australia especially in Canberra and where she is from in Wollongong and more recently performing internationally in Czech Republic and the UK. 

Notable performances overseas include 2025 gig at Jazz Dock with Emil Viklický, Andy Schofield, Tomáš Hobzek, Josef Fečo, Edinburgh Jazz ‘n’ Jive gigs in 2025 and back in 2024, completing a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024 where she worked at various gigs with Daryl Wallis, David Patrick, Daniel Bulatkin and Emil Viklický, working with Emil Viklický at Františkovy Lázně and with Emil Viklický, Petr Dvorský, Tomáš Hobzek at a venue in Brno and on my latest album and singles along with Andy Schofield (to be released later this year).

Louise Dodds: All I Know

by Neil Duggan
March 13, 2025

The last time Scottish singer-songwriter Louise Dodds was featured on All About Jazz, she was collaborating with Azerbaijani pianist Elchin Shirinov on their evocative duo album, Two Hours After Midnight (review). That recording wove together folk, classical, and jazz influences, drawing inspiration from the poetry of Robert Burns, who wrote about love, loss, and friendship. Those ...

Joe Robson

Born: July, 1990

Tessa Souter with the Jimmy Masters Trio at the Sandler Center for the Arts

by Mark Robbins
November 17, 2024

The Miller Jazz Series began six years ago under the leadership of bassist Jimmy Masters. Held in the 135-seat Miller room of the Sandler Center for the Arts in Virginia Beach, the series has sold out every performance since its inception. The first few years of the series consisted of a different monthly themes, such as ...

The Nimble Nuovication Of Nimbus Sextet

by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
December 6, 2023

Scottish jazz, like the country's favoured spirit, whisky, is distinctive, carefully crafted, slowly matured and justifiably rare, and it delivers a sense of respect, modernity and personality concurrent with, yet unique from, jazz's ancestral home. Nimbus Sextet represent many regions of Scotland, not simply the two main cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. All About Jazz interviewed the ...

Louise Dodds

Best Vocalist nominee at the Scottish Jazz Awards 2022, Scottish jazz vocalist Louise Dodds  recently released her third studio album, a duo project with renowned Azerbaijani pianist, arranger and composer Elchin Shirinov, bringing together their love of folk, classical and jazz. The project has been supported by Creative Scotland.

Prior to this release, Louise released her first album in 9 years in March 2022. The album, ‘The Story Needs an Ending’, was also Louise’s first fully original album. She took the album on the road, performing 12 dates across Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. The album was selected by Jim Gilchrist in his Arts Review of 2022 in The Scotsman.

Charlie Wood

Born: August 31, 1967

Charlie Wood is a singer/songwriter and keyboardist whose work incorporates elements of jazz, blues, traditional r&b and popular music. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Charlie headed down the Mississippi to New Orleans at seventeen, spending a few formative years soaking up the music and culture of the Big Easy and playing keys with local favourites like Charmaine Neville. He returned to Memphis in his early twenties to join the band of legendary blues guitarist Albert King, with whom he toured the US and Europe. Having established a musical reputation for himself, Charlie took up a long-standing residency with his Hammond organ trio at King's Palace on Beale Street

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Plays Ayler at St. Giles' Cathedral

by Martin McFie
May 22, 2021

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra St. Giles' Cathedral Where Rivers Meet Edinburgh, Scotland May 15, 2021 Albert Ayler was an expressive and accomplished voice in the free jazz movement who was greatly respected by his peers. None other than John Coltrane encouraged the tenor saxophonist to join Impulse! records and even ...