Reviews: John Rae's Big Feet & Islay Pipe Band: Jam meets rant in a joyful noise

From: The Scotsman | Date: December 8, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

MUSIC

John Rae's Big Feet & Islay Pipe Band ****

QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH

YOU wouldn't have heard it at Ronnie Scott's. As sax player Julian Arguelles expounded soulfully, the rest of drummer John Rae's rumbustious folk-jazz big band murmuring behind him, pipers started wandering, droning, into the hall, until there was a full pipe-band, drummers an' a', crammed onto an already packed stage. It might have made for an aural nightmare, but as the Islay pipers broke into a reel, to be peremptorily answered back by the Big Feet horns, the whole thing became a rather wonderful, uncontained yell ...

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