{"id":911359,"date":"2026-04-22T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911359\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:37:20","slug":"glasgow-jazz-festival-unveils-programme-for-40th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/911359\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Jazz Festival unveils programme for 40th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glasgow Jazz Festival will celebrate its 40th edition this summer with a specially curated programme of 40 performances, festival organisers have announced.<\/p>\n

More than 175 musicians will perform over five days in the city, at venues like the Old Fruitmarket and Oran Mor.<\/p>\n

Performances by SAY Award winners Kai Ressu<\/a>, guitarist Martin Taylor and saxophonist Courtney Pine<\/a> will feature, while there will be tributes to Miles Davis and Amy Winehouse.<\/p>\n

Festival director Jill Rodger said the event would bring together “global icons, leading Scottish artists and the next generation of jazz artists.”<\/p>\n

The festival was founded in 1987 and has attracted some of the greatest jazz names of all time, like Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis, who performed in 1990<\/a> – the same year Glasgow was City of Culture.<\/p>\n

Rodger said the festival has “always been about connection, discovery and the shared thrill of live music”.<\/p>\n

She added: “Forty years on, the festival continues to evolve, bringing together global icons, leading Scottish artists and the next generation of jazz artists.<\/p>\n

“This year’s programme reflects that journey: celebrating some of the music that we’ve shared for four decades, the moments that have defined the festival, and the future of Scottish jazz.”<\/p>\n

Among the shows lined up include a homegrown showcase featuring exciting new acts in Scottish jazz, including SAY Award Winners Kai Ressu, nu-jazz vocalist Ga\u00efa, Glasgow artist Pippa Blundell and contemporary jazz group Sekoya.<\/p>\n

Another concert – New Jazzwegians – will be part of the 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival, with the likes of jazz collective Azamiah, Ghanaian-born musician Nathan Somevi Trio and Japanese-Scottish producer, pianist and bandleader Sonedo performing.<\/p>\n

Award-winning trumpeter and composer Colin Steele will honour Miles Davis’ 100th birthday with a special show and vocalist Marianne McGregor takes on the songbook of Amy Winehouse.<\/p>\n

Roan Anderson, the winner of BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Jazz Musician 2025<\/a> will perform on the opening night with his band Tao and Mercury Music Prize shortlisted Fergus McCreadie will showcase his new piano-trio commission, Flight Pass.<\/p>\n

Steele said: “It feels especially meaningful to be part of this year’s event, having had the honour of playing one of my very first gigs at the inaugural festival all those years ago.”<\/p>\n

The festival will run from 10 -14 June this year and is backed by Creative Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glasgow Jazz Festival will celebrate its 40th edition this summer with a specially curated programme of 40 performances,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[33586,748,256081,256076,256075,918,83483,4884,256079,256080,256078,256077,155698,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-911359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-britain","tag-colin-steele","tag-courtney-pine","tag-festival-organisers","tag-glasgow","tag-glasgow-jazz-festival","tag-great-britain","tag-jazz-artists","tag-jill-rodger","tag-kai-ressu","tag-martin-taylor","tag-miles-davis","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116449106260493279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}