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JAZZ: Contemporary Jazz, JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz



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Malcolm Lindsay

Is a film music composer and musician based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Recent feature film music credits include 3 award winning films; 'Blinded', '16 Years of Alcohol', and 'Young Adam'. Young Adam starred Ewan McGregor and for this movie Malcolm worked as string arranger for David Byrne.
Malcolm's classical compositions have been performed internationally, most recently in Moscow and his ventures into jazz have earned him the title "Best Unsigned Jazz Artist, UK" - Sennheiser, Oct 2001.

Raymond MacDonald

"Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year 2002"
The Sunday Herald
"A leading voice in modern improvisational music"
WNUR Chicago

Raymond has performed and recorded extensively and toured internationally with jazz and pop bands since the mid eighties. He co-leads The George Burt / Raymond MacDonald Quartet (Leading Scottish contemporary jazz - The Guardian) and is Director of The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. (the premier league of the international improvisation sceneâ - Sueddeutsche Zeitung).
He also performs with The Scottish Jazz Composers Ensemble and international saxophone quartet Rich in Knuckles. He has recently collaborated with:
Lol Coxhill, Keith Tippett, Harry Beckett, Evan Parker, Gunter âbabyâ Sommer, Fred Frith, Keith Rowe, George Lewis, Maggie Nicols, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mike Zerang, and Fred Longberg-holm.
His recorded output can be found on a number of international labels including FMR (UK), Leo (UK), Textile (France), Thrill Jockey (USA), Clean Feed (Portugal), Aufgeladen und Bereit (Germany).

Julio Virella

Julio Virella is a guitarist/composer from New York City. He has been a professional guitarist for over 25 years. He began playing guitar on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. In the early seventies he moved to New York and began playing in many bands in the New City area. He studied jazz guitar with the great Skeeter Best a jazz guitarist/educator in New York City
Julio is at home on both the stage and in the recording studio, as he has done countless recording sessions and shows. Julio has appeared in many recordings from Smooth Jazz to Progressive Rock and from Hip-Hop to Fusion. He has worked with Sammy Peralta âOn The Oneâ, a smooth jazz CD produced by Lenny White. He also recorded with percussionists Bobby Sanabria and the great Gumbi Ortiz. In 2000 he released âUnder the Virgin Oakâ, a collection of new age and fusion music.
Julio has just completed his second solo CD of eclectic instrumental music titled UNBROKEN to be released July 2007. The music is a collection of many influences from Acid Jazz to Latin Jazz and from Rock to Fusion.

Aoife Mannix

Aoife Mannix is an Irish poet based in London. Her first poetry chapbook â The Trick of Foreign Wordsâ was published in 2002 by Tall Lighthouse. Her poetry has also been published in the anthologies Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, The Book of Hope, In Our Own Words, 100 Poets Against The War and Gargoyle as well as numerous magazines and e-zines.