Following last month’s successful appearance by Team Talk we’re expecting a larger crowd to welcome back the ever-popular Rose Room!
While still not running at full cpacity, we have increased the number of tickets available, and these are now on sale online on Eventbrite (you don’t need to print out your tickets, just bring the confirmation on your phone etc).
For the very few patrons of Linlithgow Jazz unfamiliar with Rose Room, please read on…
The quartet have been a firm favourite at Linlithgow Jazz since their debut in 2013 and with good reason – current ‘Best Band’ winner at the Scottish Jazz Awards, Rose Room have become one of Scotland’s leading ensembles influenced by the Gypsy Jazz genre. Sharing a love of Swing music and the style of the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, their “vigorous and vivacious” performances go “down a storm” with any audience as they serve up their 1930s ‘Hot Club’ standards, Gypsy Jazz favourites and self-penned originals with virtuosity, verve and panache recreating the excitement of Rive Gauche Paris.
Now in their second decade, the quartet is based in Glasgow and is fronted by award-winning virtuoso violinist and “sophisticated songstress” Seonaid Aitken who was voted Scottish Jazz Awards ‘Best Vocalist’ in 2017 & 2018 and is also presenter of BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Jazz Nights’ and a regular tutor at the Grappelli-Django Camp in The Netherlands. Scotland’s No.1 guitar maker, Jimmy Moon of ‘Moon Guitars’, features on double bass with Celtic Connections’ Danny Kyle Award-winner Tam Gallagher on rhythm guitar. The new addition to the band, and kicking off Rose Room’s second decade in style, is an exceptional talent from Glasgow’s Southside; solo guitarist Conor Smith.
With three albums recorded to date – ‘The High Life’ (2015), ‘Am I Blue’ (2013) and ‘Somewhere In Roseland’ (2011) – Rose Room have headlined all of the major Scottish jazz festivals, appeared at the celebrated Shetland Folk Festival and toured Ireland performing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.