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Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival

Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival

Spanning the earliest jazz forms to the thriving creativity of today, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is Britain's biggest Jazz Festival, presenting international jazz stars, exciting new-comers, Scottish talent and Jazz On A Summer’s Day, the UK’s biggest one-day jazz event. Taking place over ten days from late July and into early August, the Jazz & Blues Festival features more than 100 shows and events, from big band sounds to more intimate gigs across a wide variety of city venues.

Festival Dates

2008: 25 July – 3 August
Festival audience 
Topsy Chapman & Becky Kilgore

Two of the best swinging singers in the USA get together for the first time to bring the Jazz Festival to a climax at the Spiegeltent.
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Omar Sosa 
Omar Sosa

Omar Sosa is a jazz/world music phenomenon, a piano sorcerer of breathtaking skill, dynamism and imagination. His music fuses his roots in Afro-Cuban folklore with jazz harmony.
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Buddy Greco 
Buddy Greco & BBC Big Band

He hung out with Sinatra, he sang with Ella: Buddy Greco is a consummate performer, a skilful pianist, a great raconteur, and he sings ultra-hip interpretations of classy songs..
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Mardi Gras Parade 
20,000 enjoy Jazz On A Summer's Day

The sun appeared as billed as 20,000 people flocked to Princes Street Gardens for the largest jazz event in the UK.
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