With the release of its second album, Cairn, Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie’s trio has underlined its status as one of the most exciting young groups in European jazz.
The trio’s music is dynamic and beautifully crafted, reflecting the Scottish landscape and musical traditions while honouring the American and European jazz legacies, and its huge emotional pull has brought audiences to their feet across Northern Europe and resulted in an appearance at Ronnie Scott’s International Piano Trio Festival.
McCreadie has been winning awards since his mid-teens and has been nominated for two Jazz FM 2021 Awards - Album of the Year and UK Jazz Act of the Year.
His group’s debut album, Turas, released in 2018, showed extraordinary maturity and won the Album of the Year title at both the Parliamentary Jazz Awards – the UK’s most prestigious jazz prizes – and the Scottish Jazz Awards. McCreadie himself went on to win the Best Instrumentalist title at the Scottish Jazz Awards in 2018 and 2020.
Chosen as Jazz FM’s featured album of the week ahead of its release, Cairn earned five stars from Mojo and four stars from Jazzwise and was acclaimed as one of the key jazz releases of 2021 by prominent industry observers before the end of January.
It marks the further development of McCreadie’s composing talents and the trio’s ability to think, create and play with one voice, qualities that make their live performances such exuberant, uplifting and soul-stirring experiences.
“A trio capable of rivalling EST or The Bad Plus for sheer excitement”
“Vibrant, progressive, wistful… and possessing a distinctive character whose root lies in both the artistic heritage and the landscape of McCreadie’s Scottish homeland”
“Think Erik Satie running on Islay Malt rather than Absinthe”
Doors 7pm / Music 8pm / Tickets £12 / £7 for members
All seating/tables are first come first served.
We will still operate at reduced (60%) capacity until further notice… or until it feels ok again to cram the room full of people with the doors shut.