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Big band classics from Edinburgh’s own youth jazz band, packed with some exceptional talent in the current crop. Directed by Dan Hallam.

All female young Australian quintet play straight ahead swinging modern jazz.

Classic swinging arrangements, and loads of hot jazz from an all-star international band featuring Evan Christopher (clarinet), Enrico Tommaso (trumpet) and Paolo Alderighi (piano) and led by bass maestro.

The nine piece band from Toulouse are self styled a little crazy, and, yes, their wildly exuberant dress (men in fishnet stockings, chicken costumes, false pink mohicans…) might suggest that fun rather than music was their main motive, but their showmanship, extravagant costume and dance doesn’t detract from their fantastic music – from funk to New Orleans to rap to rock to European fanfare – with hugely powerful brass riffs and percussive grooves. An irresistible, energetic party night.

The charismatic New York singer and pianist is the talk of Manhattan. Still in her mid-20s she’s got the lived in voice that gives authority to all the classic show songs, and invites comparisons with everyone from Billlie Holiday to Carmen McRae, and she plays great piano. She’d have Errol Garner checking her out. No one has created a stir like this since Diana Krall first burst on to the scene twenty years ago.

Mercury-award nominee, signed to Gilles Pertson‘s Brownswood label, Ghostpoet is a Brit rapper whose remarkable sound takes in trip-hop, dubstep and hip-hop and has marked him out as one of the most distinct voices in British music. The success of his debut album, “Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam”, has led to headline appearances at Glastonbury, Latitude and Bestival. His slurring, nostalgic vocals drop over a hypnotic pulse of beats and beeps, and the result is unique and frankly addictive.

Step back into a time when New Orleans and Chicago jazz was played in bars and rough joints and savour Petrie’s distinctive hot cornet and lived-in vocal style, with his road-tested, finely tuned four-piece band.

Tron Kirk, 10.30-4pm, £10 (or individually priced slots); 10.30-11.30am Al Hughes solo Smoky-voiced blues singer playing acoustic guitar (£2); noon-1pm Sophie Bancroft & Tom Lyne “Hip, cool and simply beautiful” (The List) from voice/guitar and bass combo (£4); 1.30-2.30pm Dom Pipkin solo New Orleans style jazz and blues favourites spiced up with R’n’B and funk piano (£4); 3-4pm Steve Coombe's Hot Four plus Friends London based hip vintage group play Harlem Swing and Hot Jazz of the 20s and 30s (£4).

Terry Bean is the real Delta blues deal. From Mississippi, he picked cotton when he was young, and learned the blues from his father; he plays guitar and foreceful harmonica and sings with a powerful and plaintively soulful tone.  Leading Scottish blues guitarist, John Bruce rekindles his Allman Brothers set. Jo Harman is first on, so get there early for one of the hottest properties on the current scene - packing out everywhere she goes - intimate ballads, driving rock, soul, blues, acoustic, gospel and roots.

An opportunity to see and hear some jazz stars in the making, as the summer school students showcase their newly acquired skills. Led by Haftor Medboe