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We would like you to join us in celebrating Edwin Morgan’s centenary year with the SNJO and take a trip through time as they perform the colossal PLANET WAVE — an extraordinary collaboration between Morgan and composer Tommy Smith, featuring actor Niall Greig Fulton in spoken word theatre.

“The music carried a powerful emotional charge that mirrored Morgan’s poems to perfection.”

The Scotsman

The TSYJO Live

The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra invites applications from all experienced improvisers who are able to sight-read, aged between 12 and 24 years.

Our ideology is based only on the ability to play rather than to pay. We want to ensure that there are no barriers to participating in Scotland’s finest youth jazz orchestra. Our “free for all” policy requires no financial commitment.

Once again, award-winning vibraphonist Joe Locke and vocalist extraordinaire Kenny Washington join the SNJO for Jazz Re-invented: POP! ROCK! SOUL! – a fabulous selection of tracks taken from the modern American songbook.

Singer-songwriters such as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, Lennon/McCartney and Bill Withers brought heartfelt soul music to their work, while artists and performers like Earth, Wind & Fire, Led Zeppelin, Heart and Steely Dan showered their enduring recordings with jazz, funk, orchestral and eclectic ornamentation.