Such a perfect day
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THE EDINBURGH Jazz & Blues Festival will take place live as well as online from 16 to 25 July.
Fergus McCreadie, and saxophonist, Matt Carmichael in our cover shot will be taking centre stage this month. The photo was taken during a video shoot for a piece which McCreadie had written and was releasing as a single. It was a huge effort to get the piano up to its position inside the Collective Gallery on Calton Hill.
Photographer, Greg Macvean, explained: “It was the perfect day.
Fergus and Matt had to keep doing run throughs, actually playing while being filmed, although the music had already been laid on a separate track. People outside the gallery could hear it and lots of visitors thought it was a concert and kept trying to come in. At one stage two legs were removed from the piano to move it.”
A festival spokesperson said the piano was brought up by road before being carefully pushed the last 100 yards into position. A piano technician accompanied the piano and supervised the move and the tuning.
Matt Carmichael will perform with his quartet (which includes Fergus) at 2pm on 20 July.
Fergus will appear online only on 20 July at 6pm along with Tim Garland.