The 2017 Skye Swing Jazz Festival gets under way tomorrow (Friday October 27) with an emphasis this year on fun and funk. Kicking off the weekend of music and dancing, is an Oscar-winning film, accompanied by an innovative score, played live by one of Scotland’s most exciting and prodigious musical talents.
Graeme Stephen’s score for F W Murnau’s visual masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans won him the innovation award at the Scottish Jazz Awards in 2012. The film won the Unique and Artistic Picture Award at the First Academy Awards in 1929. Harnessing influences from various musical styles including folk, classical and jazz, Graeme will be performing with world-class musicians Pete Harvey, cello; Phil Bancroft, saxophone; and Tom Bancroft, drums/percussion.