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Jazz

Instrumentation

• Dick Lee - clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax and recorder
• Lorne Cowieson - trumpet
• Conor Smith - guitar
• Timmy Allan - guitar
• Owen MacDonald - double bass

Repertoire

The Scoundrels play great tunes from the likes of Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington et al., including some of Dick's own hit tunes from the past few decades. Here's some of the programme from a recent concert marking the very welcome re-opening of the legendary Edinburgh Jazz Bar:

Crazy Rhythm (Gershwin)

Samson and Delilah (Shavers)

Fairweather (Lee)

Take the A Train (Ellington)

Blue and Sentimental (Basie)

Finish the Beguine (Lee)

Festival 48 (Reinhardt)

Dans Les Rues d’Antibes (Bechet)

Stranger on the Shore (Bilk)

White Cliffs of Dover (Kent)

Biography

Dick's latest band is a quintet featuring some of Scotland’s finest jazz performers, assembled to play hot and sweet swing jazz from both sides of the Atlantic.

Creative Scotland Award winner and winner of the BBC Big Band Competition, Dick plays clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax and recorder. The band also features the duelling guitars of Conor Smith and Timmy Allan, the tasteful trumpet of Lorne Cowieson and the springy bass of Owen MacDonald.

Warning, could lead to dancing :-)