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Rob Adams

East Neuk
As seen in: The Edinburgh Reporter, Edinburgh Evening News, The Herald (Glasgow), The Courier (UK), LondonJazz News, Jazz In Europe, Stirling News
Writer (inc UK Jazz News) and agent for saxophonist Tommy Smith, harper Karen Marshalsay and jazz-classical duo New Focus at robadamsmusictouring.com
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Norwegian musician makes Edinburgh Celtic connection on new album

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By Rob Adams
| The Edinburgh Reporter Verified
He didn’t expect to become the name on the lips of so many folk and Celtic music broadcasters around the world, however. And it’s due to a sound that was made in Edinburgh. Gewelt, who has played on more than a hundred albums by musicians including former Santana drummer Michael Shrieve and the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s rhythmic powerhouse, Billy Cobham, called up his old friend, Edinburgh-born saxophonist Tommy Smith, when he started planning The Old Tree.
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New Bancroft album champions the Black American jazz tradition 

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By Rob Adams
| The Edinburgh Reporter Verified
A celebration of music from the Black American jazz tradition, the album reflects the inspiration Bancroft felt setting out as a teenaged musician on hearing his primary influences, saxophonists John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Wayne Shorter. Here were players who communicated with an overwhelming beauty and intoxicating power. More than this, however, they had a uniqueness of expression. It wasn’t just saxophonists who moved the young Bancroft.
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Leading Scottish folk group celebrates internationalism at the Fringe

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By Rob Adams
| The Edinburgh Reporter Verified
One of the longest-established groups on the Scottish folk scene, the Whistlebinkies formed in the late 1960s in Glasgow. They were the first folk group to champion the playing of the Scottish tradition’s “three graces” – fiddle, pipes and harp.
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