Glasgow International Jazz Festival

The Glasgow International Jazz Festival (also Glasgow Jazz Festival) is an annual five days that takes place in Glasgow in June international music festival devoted to jazz. The venues are scattered all over the city, as of 1993 with an emphasis in the Old Fruitmarket.

The idea for the festival was created in 1987 during the preparations for Glasgow as European Capital of Culture 1990. At the first festival in 1987 Benny Carter occurred, which was commissioned to compose a Glasgow Suite, Sarah Vaughan, but also Scottish musicians such as Carol Kidd, Martin Taylor and Tommy Smith (who in the 1990s wrote for the festival Beasts of Scotland). Followed in 1988 Gerry Mulligan for The Flying Scotsman composed and performed. Other musicians in the 1980s were Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles and Miles Davis (1990 in Glasgow was as European Capital of Culture ).

In the 1990s, Max Roach, Horace Silver, Ahmad Jamal, Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, David Murray, McCoy Tyner, the Art Ensemble of Chicago occurred, the Mingus Big Band, Arturo Sandoval, Jack Bruce, Trilok Gurtu, John McLaughlin, the Jazz Crusaders, Thomas Chapin, Michel Petrucciani, Don Cherry, Elvin Jones, Tito Puente, George Shearing, Nat Adderley, Lee Konitz, Jimmy Smith and Carla Bley (1992 ) on.

When the Old Fruitmarket from 2002 temporarily turned out, you moved next to the indoor concerts in tents and open-air events in George Square. Here occurred among other Tony Bennett.

With the establishment of the festival include the creation of the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra is connected ( line Tommy Smith) that occurs here regularly.