This is Gean House in Alloa where a couple of dozen saxophonists congregated for a weekend of music making.  Much fun was had by all and the food and drink were excellent.

Instead of coming straight home on Sunday I went on to Glasgow to an SNJO concert at the Conservatoire.  It was a good decision because the concert was brilliant.  Tommy Smith had arranged Peter and the Wolf for the band plus a classical flautist since as he explained in a pre-concert chat none of his reed section could play the flute well enough.  Liz Lochhead had written a new text with a mildly Scottish flavour and it was delivered in bravura style by Tam Dean Burn.  Playing the piano was Makoto Ozone, a Japanese jazzman who has worked with the SNJO before and who had created the second work played,  a jazz version of Carnival of the Animals.  I loved it.