Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock at Brunton Theatre

Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock are Scotland’s world class jazz ambassadors. Their work individually constitutes many volumes of high class jazz experience and together they have recorded three acclaimed duo albums as well as creating the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s ecstatically received Rhapsody in Blue Live and In the Spirit of Duke albums.

Smith emerged on the international jazz scene as a teenage saxophonist with vibes master Gary Burton’s group and has flourished through a career that includes recording for the legendary Blue Note label, touring the world with Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen’s state of the art jazz trio, and winning accolades including three honorary doctorates and a BBC Heart of Jazz award....

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Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock are Scotland’s world class jazz ambassadors. Their work individually constitutes many volumes of high class jazz experience and together they have recorded three acclaimed duo albums as well as creating the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s ecstatically received Rhapsody in Blue Live and In the Spirit of Duke albums.

Smith emerged on the international jazz scene as a teenage saxophonist with vibes master Gary Burton’s group and has flourished through a career that includes recording for the legendary Blue Note label, touring the world with Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen’s state of the art jazz trio, and winning accolades including three honorary doctorates and a BBC Heart of Jazz award.

Pianist Kellock has long been recognised as the master musician’s chosen accompanist, having worked with Stanley Turrentine, Scott Hamilton, Sheila Jordan, Carol Kidd, Liane Carroll, Herb Geller and many other internationally renowned musicians, and he is an award-winning pianist and bandleader in his own right.

In concert Smith and Kellock are the consummate jazz duo, playing jazz classics with passion, tenderness, soulfulness and humour and at all times practising the art of communication with each other and above all, with their audience as they share the obvious fun they derive from their partnership as musicians and friends.

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