Yotam Silberstein, 'Dada,' Jazz & People ****

One of the best guitarists we have ever heard live, think Kurt Rosenwinkel calibre chops and natural George Benson-esque improvising flair, the Tel Aviv-born Yotam Silberstein was championed earlier in his career by Monty Alexander in whose band …

Published: 18 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

One of the best guitarists we have ever heard live, think Kurt Rosenwinkel calibre chops and natural George Benson-esque improvising flair, the Tel Aviv-born Yotam Silberstein was championed earlier in his career by Monty Alexander in whose band the Harlem-Kingston Express we heard him play in Valletta in 2011.

On Universos out in November the drummer with him is the Avishai player Daniel Dor and Vitor Gonçalves crops up playing a range of instruments including piano here. The world's greatest jazz harmonica player Grégoire Maret guests on 'Tal and Gil.'

'Dada' wrapped inside a Mediterranean whirligig of sunshine sounds like a new standard (the melody, stretch your imagination and listen hard - it is more obvious one minute and twenty seconds in) intimations of 'My Old Flame' flicker transcendentally in the mind's eye - like seeing someone's face and thinking of somebody else who vaguely looks like them. We are not suggesting that there is any link. And not the same at all by any means but this shiver of melody sends us down the rabbit hole anyway to Mae West with Duke Ellington. The Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow standard appeared in the 1934 western Belle of the Nineties and has been a presence in jazz repertoire ever since.

Mellow, taking all the time in the world flavoured by that lingering Silberstein tone French label Jazz & People don't put out many records but when they do you have to beg for more - track of the day today in the 1 luv spot.

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The music stops at Glasgow's Blue Arrow Jazz Club

The Sauchiehall Street basement jazz club the Blue Arrow has shut down - a blow for the Glasgow and wider Scottish jazz scene. The club posted the news online yesterday. ''We are now shut for good. Huge thanks to all of the amazing artists who …

Published: 18 Oct 2022. Updated: 18 months.

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The Sauchiehall Street basement jazz club the Blue Arrow has shut down - a blow for the Glasgow and wider Scottish jazz scene. The club posted the news online yesterday.

''We are now shut for good. Huge thanks to all of the amazing artists who have graced our stage! Massive thanks to all of the fantastic staff over the years! Thanks to you, the audience, please keep supporting local live events whenever you can…times are increasingly hard. They'd be even harder though, without live music.''

No reasons are given for its closure.