Back by popular demand following their debut Festival appearance two years ago, Scottish Jazz Awards finalists 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, Rose Room’s 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.
Based in Glasgow, the quartet features award-winning violinist and vocalist Seonaid Aitken (who also plays with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, folk singer and Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble, and recently orchestrated the music for the BBC/Richard Curtis film ‘Esio Trot’ and BBC drama Agatha Christie’s ‘Partners in Crime’). Alongside Aitken, Scotland’s No. 1 ‘guitar maker to the stars’ Jimmy Moon plays double bass, and Danny Kyle Award-winners Swing Guitars’ Tam Gallagher and Tom Watson are on rhythm and lead guitars respectively.
With three albums recorded to date, Rose Room have headlined at all of the major Scottish jazz festivals and toured Ireland performing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. This level of talent is not to be missed!
…as close to the sound of the great Stephane Grappelli as I think you’re going to hear in Scotland
The Jazz House, BBC Radio Scotland
Rose Room swing harder than an elm tree in a force nine English gale
Shetland News
Find out more at roseroom.co.uk.
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