Jim Gilchrist

Edinburgh

Writer at Scotland on Sunday

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Scotsman critic Jim Gilchrist picks his highlights

Jan 8, 2025 | msn.com | Jim Gilchrist

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Celtic Connections 2025: Scotsman critic Jim Gilchrist picks his highlights

Jan 8, 2025 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

This year’s Celtic Connections festival embraces a hugely eclectic range of music as well as various multi-disciplinary productions, writes Jim GilchristThree decades on from its foundation, Glasgow’s vast and protean roots music festival Celtic Connections – its 300 or so events at 25 venues defying anything like a comprehensive preview – embraces not only a hugely eclectic range of music but also numerous multi-disciplinary productions.
Scotsman critic Jim Gilchrist picks his jazz highlights for 2025

Jan 2, 2025 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

The thriving Scottish jazz scene is reflected in some great gigs, writes Jim Gilchrist Helena Kay Quartet: Golden Sands Revisited Multi-award-winning saxophonist Helena Kay continues to curate “Jazz Thursdays” at the Queen’s Hall and on 13 February they’ll be reprising their widely praised second album, Golden Sands, in the company of pianist Peter Johnstone, bassist Calum Gourlay and drummer Alyn Cosker.
Scotsman folk critic Jim Gilchrist on the must-see shows of 2025

Dec 30, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

Jim Gilchrist proffers five folk flings worth flocking to in 2025 Celtic Connections Glasgow’s annual roots music behemoth, Celtic Connections, presents an astonishing 1,200 artists at some 300 events across the city. The opening night at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, celebrating the 850th anniversary of the Dear Green Place, remains under wraps but promises “surprises incorporating music, spoken-word, dance and film”.
The best jazz albums of 2024: Jim Gilchrist names his top five

Dec 19, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

Fergus McCreadie and friends are driving Scottish jazz to ever greater heights, writes Jim Gilchrist Fergus McCreadie: Stream (Edition Records) Storm, the opening track of multi-award-winning pianist Fergus McCreadie’s fourth album, pretty well encapsulates what his mercurial, Scots accented and landscape-inspired jazz is all about.
Best Folk Albums of 2024: Jim Gilchrist picks his highlights

Dec 15, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

The best folk albums of the year show how the Scottish scene is thriving, writes Jim GilchristAmy Laurenson: Strands (Own Label) Debut albums don’t come much more impressive than this exhilarating recording from Shetland pianist Amy Laurenson, 2023’s BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year.
Scottish Jazz Awards, Glasgow review: a night for the new school

Nov 28, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

This year’s Scottish Jazz Awards threw the spotlight on Scotland’s flourishing younger generation of talent, writes Jim GilchristScottish Jazz Awards 2024, The Savings Bank, Glasgow ★★★★Amid a party atmosphere under the glittering chandeliers of the Savings Bank venue, this year’s Scottish Jazz Awards threw the spotlight very much on Scotland’s – and particularly Glasgow’s – flourishing younger generation of jazz talent.
Enlightenment ballad collector Anna Gordon celebrated on new album of 'muckle sangs'

Oct 21, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

A new album from Alison McMorland presents 12 traditional ballads as they have never been heard in modern times, writes Jim GilchristWith its elemental tales of dire deeds and grim comeuppances, fratricide and supernatural encounters, the realm of Scots balladry is a graphic one. Now the release this month of a double album directed by Alison McMorland, long respected as an interpreter of these “muckle sangs”, is being hailed as “a major event for ballad scholarship”.
A musical portrait of the artist: how Martin Kershaw captured John Lavery in sound

Oct 3, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

How to create a music portrait of a portraitist? Jim Gilchrist talks to jazz musician Martin Kershaw, who has been commissioned by the National Galleries of Scotland to write a suite inspired by their Sir John Lavery exhibitionIt’s tempting, if glib, to ask, how does a jazz musician portray a portraitist?
A return to Scotland’s 'golden age' of fiddle music for Savage & Allen

Sep 30, 2024 | scotsman.com | Jim Gilchrist

For their new double album, violinist Alastair Savage and cellist Alice Allen have drawn on the work of such 18th century greats as Niel and Nathaniel Gow and William Marshall, writes Jim GilchristFiddle music from two centuries ago and new compositions informed by place, history and personal loss are given rich expression on a new double album, the debut collaboration between fiddler Alastair Savage and cellist Alice Allen.