At sunrise taken at 8  o- clock on the 2nd of January 2008 overlooking the Ness River, Inverness, Highland, Scotland, from Ardross Street   at the back of the Bishops Palace— Eden Court Theatre.

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On Tuesday the 22nd of January 2008, I spotted the newspaper clipping (see left-hand) in the Inverness Courier saying that the trumpeter son of Inverness very fine trombonist Pat Strachan will be joining him the following Thursday on his gig with the Four on Six jazz group booked at the Blackfriars pub.

 

“The young 31 year old Malcolm Strachan can be heard playing trumpet regularly at the Pizza Express in Dean Street, Soho, London, close to Ronnie Scott’s, and has become a top choice instrumentalist backing for famous music stars, and TV presenters.”

 

It was a drenching wet windswept deserted city when I from North to South over the Ness Bridge to the Blackfriars, the home of the Classic Jazz Society, where the young maestro at the time was playing Flugelhorn, with wholesome expression of the instrument, nice tone quality, sparked with intricate daring articulation of improvisational music on “Black Coffee” a tune leading the two sessions, so making it a special evening for all those who travelled the elements to go and listen to him with the Four on Six quintet.   KJR

 

The line-up of the jazz group was

Roger Niven (gtr); Laura-Beth Scally (keys); Bobby McDonald (str  bs);

 Pat Strachan  (tmb) James Hendry (drms) and;

the guest jazz artist was Malcolm Strachan (tpt flugelhorn)

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Blackfriars

93-95 Academy Street

  Inverness, Scotland

Established January 2008

Inverness Classic Jazz Society