Soundhouse at the Traverse: a Night in Dedication to Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass at Traverse Theatre

Go back in time with the winner of ‘Jazz Vocalist of the year’ at the ‘2013 Scottish Jazz Awards’, Alison Affleck, and the leading exponent of World Jazz guitar David MacGregor with a fun yet sophisticated night of music.

David and Alison are getting together to perform various songs from the Fitzgerald and Pass discography as well as David performing some solo jazz guitar pieces of which Joe Pass was an innovator. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass recorded six albums still recognised today as some of the finest examples of voice accompanied by guitar duets....

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Go back in time with the winner of ‘Jazz Vocalist of the year’ at the ‘2013 Scottish Jazz Awards’, Alison Affleck, and the leading exponent of World Jazz guitar David MacGregor with a fun yet sophisticated night of music.

David and Alison are getting together to perform various songs from the Fitzgerald and Pass discography as well as David performing some solo jazz guitar pieces of which Joe Pass was an innovator. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass recorded six albums still recognised today as some of the finest examples of voice accompanied by guitar duets.

Live once again or discover for the first time these masterpieces performed in dedication to two legends of classic Jazz. Two of Scotland’s top musicians perform fresh, interesting and original versions of these all time greats.

“[Alison is] one of the most distinctive voices on the Scottish Jazz Scene – full of character, passionate and stunningly expressive” – The San Diego Union Tribune

“ They say a picture paints a thousand words, but MacGregor’s strings do an equally stunning job”– Jen Bowden, Dunfermline Press

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