Recently, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival has been - er - rocking Edinburgh. No, that needs a better word...er, I'll think of one later. Painting the town...blue(s)? Never mind.
As a teasing preview before they publish any Fringe reviews, ThreeWeeks have published a couple of jazz reviews. Here's my favourite, a review of Scandinavian trio The Thing:
Three muscley, Scandinavian men – Vikings – with short hair appeared. They could have been squaddies. What followed certainly looked like a battle – for their souls. The Thing wrestled their instruments into producing an enthralling cacophony, pulsing with energy. This jazz borrows from punk and metal and includes random shouts of pain and squeals of feedback - amazingly from the saxophones, which make noises no sax should. Drummer Nilssen-Love looked increasingly frustrated that his arms were moving, bassist Flaten seemed tortured by his strings and saxophonist Gustafsson went bright red as air was squeezed from his body. It was like someone was forcing them to play as a punishment. Maybe a spiteful Spirit of Jazz. Punk-jazz may be an unholy alliance, but it's diabolically enchanting.
The Lot, 2 Aug, 9.00pm, £12.50
tw rating: 4/5
published: Aug-2009
http://edinburgh.threeweeks.co.uk/review/6727
Then, over on Fringe Review at the moment, there's a four-star review of Belt Up's The Tartuffe:
http://www.fringereview.co.uk/fringeReview/2957.html
Speaking of Belt Up - which I was - their venue, C Soco, turns into a late-night bar after their shows are over. Find out more about that on callthatashow.com:
http://callthatashow.com/?page_id=82
Exciting.
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