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Multi-media artist Maria Rud creating images in Edinburgh s St Giles Cathedral.
Jazz musicians let rip while Russian painter and multi-media artist Maria Rud creates spontaneous images inside Edinburgh’s oldest cathedral in a series of live, online performances. Gayle Ritchie finds out more.
It is billed as the most ambitious, multi-dimensional event ever staged by the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
Where Rivers Meet, brings together live music, live painting and architecture in the striking setting of Edinburgh’s 12th Century St Giles’ Cathedral.
The project features four outstanding saxophone soloists and the vividly expressive creations of Russian painter and multi-media artist Maria Rud.
five stars
Keith Bruce FOR all the diversity in music-making that has been showcased at concerts in Celtic Connections over the years, there can have been few programmes covering as much territory as this online showcase for four very different acts at the top of their game. In fact the latter two would perhaps sit more obviously in Glasgow Jazz Festival, although the traditional music ingredients in the compositions of pianist Fergus McCreadie are utterly crucial. He was previewing tracks from his upcoming new album Cairn, released at the end of the month. There may be a new minimalism at work here, but when McCreadie introduces a “simple tune”, that signals his intention to take a riff or melodic idea into previously uncharted waters, courtesy of prodigious technique. The exciting variations he explored around the continuous thumbed pulse of Cross Flatlands could be no-one else, while the soaring Cliffside was as picturesque from its opening chords as the new music fiddl