The summer school gig went off well.  The jazz bar was packed but given that there were 28 students to start with it didn't take many friends and family to fill the place up.  I doubt that there were any unconnected spectators.

We had been split into four bands at the outset and each band played two tunes. Our band included Scottish music royalty in the shape of Jimmy Shand's great grandson. He wasn't playing the squeeze box. The focus of the week had been on contemporary European jazz and the first tune that we played was the other-wordly From Gagarin's Point of View by the Esbjorn Svensson Trio.  It wasn't recorded but here's a clip from the original.  Our version was a bit chunkier thanks to the inclusion of three saxophones and I think we played it at a slightly faster tempo.
  

Our second number was a fast, funky tune made up for the occasion so it has vanished into the mists of time.

I went to a few gigs over the weekend finishing up at a very lively late night session at the Tron Kirk on Sunday by an Edinburgh band called Pocion de Fe who had a good proportion of the audience up and dancing.  Hear them on Soundcloud.

Now I'm enjoying the luxury of a week with almost nothing arranged.  Bored by Friday?