Friday 5 September 2025 at 8.00 pm Kirkcaldy Old Kirk
Formed in2014, this group performed every fortnight for 6 years at The Outhouse Bar in Edinburgh featuring the core group of musicians: Martin Kershaw (sax), Graeme Stephen (guitar), Mario Caribé (bass), and Tom Bancroft (drums). It had grown since beginning in 2014 into essential listening on Edinburgh’s live scene with a constant range of well attended creative gigs from entirely improvised concerts through to tribute nights to great composers like Charles Mingus and Kenny Wheeler. Most weeks there were guest musicians featuring established and up and coming musicians from the Scottish music scene and beyond which have included Steve Hamilton, Phil Bancroft, Laura MacDonald, Kevin MacKenzie, Pete Johnstone, Julian Arguëlles, Rachael Cohen, Chris Greive, George Burt, Phil O’Malley, Brian Kellock and more. In 2018 Martin & Playtime were awarded the Ginkhana Award for Innovation in New Jazz Music from New Music Scotland.
Then COVID hit and everything changed – Playtime changed into an online live-streaming dynamo leading the way with what is possible with remote improvisations and live-streaming, performing either remote improv livestreams from their houses with international guests, or livestream gigs from Pathhead’s Village Hall featuring the cream of Scottish musicians.
“The melodic and rhythmic progression in these excursions makes them very approachable and enjoyable. They way they twist and turn, moving from one form to another as the emphasis shifts from one musician to the next…The musicians have a knowledge and experience of each other’s playing going back years. They take turns to lead, the music morphing from one form to another; almost as if different sections or tracks were evolving as one listens.” London Jazz News
Doors open 7.30 for 8.00 pm. Tickets £14 (plus booking fee) from Trybooking.com, or £15 on the door payable by cash or card. For online bookings there is a choice of table seating or tiered seating; table seating on the night subject to availability. The Book Now button can be used for table seating; tiered seating can be booked online at https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/86974. Tickets can be reserved for payment at the door via info@langtounjazz.co.uk
Customers may bring their own drinks and nibbles.
