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Article: Reviews: John Rae's Big Feet & Islay Pipe Band: Jam meets rant in a joyful noise
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- December 8, 2003
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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 of massed
brass and reeds. Strange and wonderful things happen in this little-
explored territory ...
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