Glasgow International Jazz Festival
The Glasgow International Jazz Festival (also Glasgow Jazz Festival ) is a five days in June in a year Glasgow held end (Scotland) international music festival , which the Jazz is dedicated. The venues are scattered across town, with an emphasis on the Old Fruit Market as of 1993.
The idea for the festival came up in 1987 during the preparations for Glasgow as European Capital of Culture in 1990. At the first festival in 1987, Benny Carter , who was commissioned to compose a Glasgow suite , performed Sarah Vaughan , but also Scottish musicians such as Carol Kidd and Martin Taylor and Tommy Smith (who composed for the Beasts of Scotland festival in the 1990s ). In 1988 Gerry Mulligan followed , who composed and performed The Flying Scotsman for it . Other musicians in the 1980s were Stan Getz , Oscar Peterson , Cab Calloway , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles and Miles Davis (1990 when Glasgow was 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 , the Mingus Big Band , Arturo Sandoval , Jack Bruce , Trilok Gurtu , John performed 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).
When the Old Fruit Market was temporarily shut down from 2002, people moved to tents and open air events on George Square in addition to the indoor concerts . Tony Bennett performed here, among others .
The founding of the festival is linked to the founding of the Strathclyde Youth Jazz Orchestra (directed by Tommy Smith), which performs here regularly.