Tommy Smith, Brian Kellock

Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock are two of Scotland's greatest jazz musicians. Their work separately and together constitutes many volumes of high class jazz experience, Smith having toured and recorded with, amongst others, Gary Burton and Arild Andersen, and Kellock being the accompanist of choice for many of the jazz workld's greatest players. They have recorded three acclaimed duo albums as well as creating the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra's Rhapsody in Blue Live and In the Spirit of Duke albums.

In concert they are the consummate jazz article: virtuoso musicians who make sublime music spontaneously for the audience, playing with passion, tenderness, soulfulness and humour and at all times practising the art of communication. As much a double act in their between-song banter as they are in musical conversation, they are seriously good players who play serious music and yet they entertain and share the obvious fun they derive from their partnership as musicians and friends.