One to watch: Noah Stoneman in action as part of a quartet streaming from Kansas Smitty's

As Lockdown hits ever more calamitously even streaming, the creative substitution and new input meantime on the London scene via the higher profile jazz clubs, has reduced to three regular venues: Kansas Smitty's on Broadway Market, Hackney; Ronnie …

Published: 25 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

As Lockdown hits ever more calamitously even streaming, the creative substitution and new input meantime on the London scene via the higher profile jazz clubs, has reduced to three regular venues: Kansas Smitty's on Broadway Market, Hackney; Ronnie Scott's, Soho; the 606 in Chelsea. What's coming up? OK, check Noah Stoneman tomorrow night in action at Giacomo's place listed to appear in a quartet setting. Last year just before Lockdown no. 1 Noah, a student at the time, and apparently taken under the wing of ECM star Kit Downes contemporaneously, was in action memorably playing the organ role on the deep-jazzhead themed Larry Young Unity touring presentation led by the ''next Shabaka'' fellow Brum scene tenor alumnus retro sensation Xhosa Cole and original Empirical trumpeter Jay Phelps plus drummer Jim Bashford completing the considerable cooking. Kansas Smitty's, top. Photo: marlbank. Link: for tomorrow

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Red, Red Rose: For Burns night

The great artist, tenor saxophonist, jazz composer, bandleader, professor, paterfamilias of the Scottish jazz scene Tommy Smith and his most enduring creation the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrate Scotland's national poet and abiding …

Published: 25 Jan 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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The great artist, tenor saxophonist, jazz composer, bandleader, professor, paterfamilias of the Scottish jazz scene Tommy Smith and his most enduring creation the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrate Scotland's national poet and abiding spirit of the nation and the Caledonian diaspora Robert Burns who was born today in 1759 and marked at suppers in the evening on this day the world over are here with their moving instrumental version of the Geoffrey Keezer-arranged Robert Archibald Smith melody for the ages set to Burns' words, 'My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose.' Smith, also thinking of the power of poetry now, refers to poet Amanda Gorman in his words of introduction before he recites the Burns poem in the wintry scene filmed near 12th century Lanark. Drily amused just as he finishes, on hearing glacial noises off, he quips, glancing over his shoulder ''there the ice cracks in the distance.''

Tender is the night: Robert Burns, top, by Alexander Nasmyth, National Galleries, Scotland