Adding to the previously announced line-up for the Glasgow Jazz Festival the organisers have added Pharoah Sanders (left) and JTQ to the main line-up unveiled in April.

The spiritual jazz saxophonist and acid jazz stalwarts join the Robert Glasper Experiment, Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion, George Benson, Ryan Quigley Big Band Beatles, Neil Cowley Trio, Soweto Kinch Trio, Joe Stilgoe, Das Kapital plays Hanns Eisler and Craig Charles at what is Scotland’s leading jazz festival.

Running from 27 June-2 July the Glasgow Jazz Festival is based around the city’s City Halls/Old Fruitmarket venues with late-night jam sessions at the Glasgow Thistle, as well as the Clyde Auditorium and other venues including indie shrine King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and award winning west end venue Òran Mór.

Other notable additions include Robert Cray Band, Yolanda Brown, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra double bill on 1 July, Nova Scotia Jazz Band with special guest Brian Kellock, Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti, and singer Niki King at Òran Mór.

– Stephen Graham

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