4 July 2025 @ 7:30 pm
Tickets are currently available with a passcode to EAC members only. They will go on general sale at 7pm on Monday April 14th
Adults £22 / Under 18s £2
We’ve got a real Mananan treat for all the jazz fans out there, in the shape of legendary Scottish trumpeter Bruce Adams and his red-hot quartet!
Brought up in a musical family, Bruce Adams’ first real musical interest was the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Consequently, he started his musical journey on the guitar, switching to trumpet in 1962 when his father bought him one for his 11th birthday. By the time he was 12, Bruce was working three to four nights a week in the Glasgow area playing in small dance band residencies and performing in a cabaret act with his father. When he was 14 he was sponsored on Hughie Green’s Opportunity Knocks by British trumpet legend Nat Gonella.
After years on the club circuit, Bruce got involved in the local jazz scene in Glasgow first by forming a jazz quintet with alto saxophonist Bill Fanning, one of the stalwarts of Scottish jazz. Bruce also joined the big band formed by Glasgow drum legend George McGowan. The band entered the 1982 Holsten Big Band Competition, where Bruce won the Best Trumpet prize and the Outstanding Soloist prize. Two years later, the band entered the BBC Big Band Competition, and Bruce won the Trumpet Soloist prize. During the 1980s, Bruce became a regular at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival where he had the chance to work with such luminaries as Harry Sweets Edison, Spanky Davis, Dick Hyman and many more. This association led to him joining Mike Hart’s Scottish Society Syncopators, touring the world and playing at some of the most prestigious festivals, dressed in a kilt!
In the 1990s, Bruce toured extensively with a variety of bands and recorded his first album for Big Bear Music. This was followed by The first of several collaborations with Alan Barnes called Sidestepping, forging a partnership that endures to the present day. Bruce is a multiple British Jazz Awards winner, having been nominated more than 20 times, and he continues to ply his trade encompassing jazz styles ranging from Louis Armstrong to the present day. Bruce will be joined by a formidable trio of jazz talents: Robin Aspland on piano, Julian Bury on bass, and Matt Fishwick on drums.
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