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Main Street Blues Tron Kirk 8pm Price -  £10 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Electric blues band with a wide range of R’n’B and funk influences.

Locus
The Jazz Bar 7.00-8.30pm
Price - £10 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Ages 14+
Really hot new band of the “next big talents” led by two Scots, saxophonist Leah Gough Cooper, and trumpeter, Kim Macari. Influenced by Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny and Brian Blade, their compositions are deeply rooted in the jazz tradition and range from bop to contemporary acoustic fusion. With Riley Stone-Lonergan (tenor sax), Sam Leak (piano), Tom Wheatley (bass), Jay Davis (drums).

Ken Mathieson Classic Jazz Orchestra with guest Evan Christopher  
Palazzo Spiegeltent 8.30pm
Price - £12.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
Scotland’s leading jazz repertory band are constantly winning plaudits for their inventive re-casting of classic jazz, really bringing the music of classic jazz and the swing era to life. Tonight they are joined by the maestro New Orleans clarinettist, Evan Christopher (“gorgeous and downright mesmerising clarinet playing” – The Scotsman).

Fionna Duncan Tron Kirk  Price -  £5 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Big hearted and always inspiring jazz vocalist – from the 60s to today - a national treasure.

Duke Ellington’s Sacred ConcertEdinburgh Jazz Festival OrchestraWith Stan Tracey and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Choir
Dunfermline, Dunfermline Abbey 7.30pm
Price - £17.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
A very rare performance of Ellington's wonderful "Sacred Music" set in the historic surrounds of Dunfermline Abbey.

Darius Brubeck Quartet    Tom Davis Quartet The Queen's Hall 8.00pm Price - £16/£12.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)  Jazz was as cool as a Dry Martini when Brubeck and Desmond came to town in the 50’s. Darius Brubeck carries the Brubeck flame, playing hits like “Blue Rondo A La Turk” and “Take Five” with the great saxophonist, Brandon Allen in the Paul Desmond role. Brubeck’s set also features South African jazz, and his own originals. American guitarist, Tom Davis, has a band that features Paul Desmond tunes too, the ones he made famous with Jim Hall, with Martin Keshaw taking the alto hot seat.

Stephanie Trick
Tron Kirk 
Price -  £5 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
Ragtime aficionado and virtuosic piano playing.

The bass maestro has been at the heart of so much great swinging jazz in Scotland for so many years, that it’s amazing to think this will be his debut as a band leader at the Festival. But what a way to do it – he’ll play a mix of classic arrangements from the like of John Kirby and Artie Shaw, and loads of hot, burning, swinging jazz – with a band that features three giants of the international jazz scene: Evan Christopher (clarinet), Enrico Tommaso (trumpet) and Paolo Alderighi (piano).

Joe Gordon Ragtime Banjoes Royal Overseas League 1.30pm Price - £10 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) A Festival institution and always a sell out. The veteran White Heather Club singer and banjo player loves traditional jazz, and plays rags, stomps, blues and swing tunes with Mike Daly on trumpet and Beverley Knight (banjo), Ken MacDonald (bass) and Scott Gordon (drums)

Duke Ellington’s Sacred ConcertEdinburgh Jazz Festival OrchestraWith Stan Tracey and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Choir
The Queen's Hall 8.00pm
Price - £22.50/£17.50
A very rare performance of Ellington's wonderful "Sacred Music". Both serious and swinging the music is reverent and hip: encompassing jazz, classical music, choral music, spirituals, gospel, blues and dance. Ellington called it “the most important thing I have ever done”. Written for jazz big band, vocal and instrumental soloists, choir and tap dancer, it’s rarity is not surprising, but one of its greatest champions has been long time Ellington devotee and one of jazz’s living legends, pianist, Stan Tracey, now in his mid-80’s. The all star band is packed with UK and international talent.