The Edinburgh Jazz Festival is bringing together two distinct types of music, which are traditionally worlds apart.
This weekend will see a collaboration between Scottish jazz musicians
and Indian musicians, brought together by the British Council.
The council said they wanted to increase the international programme at
Edinburgh's jazz festival.
The jazz trio AAB will be playing with the Indian musicians from the
group Ganesh Kumeresh on Sunday.
Tom Bancroft, from AAB, said the British Council introduced them to the
organisers of the Delhi jazz festival and they met musicians from the group
Ganesh Kumeresh and planned a collaboration for Edinburgh.
He said: "We have very compatible skillsets so it's very
interesting in many ways."
'Different cultures'
Ganesh Rajagopalan, from Ganesh Kumaresh, said: "As musicians we
are open to all different cultures and what happens is we are able to
communicate with each other through the medium of music as language."
He added: "The music we play is a lot like jazz, lots of
improvisation."
Dana MacLeod, senior arts adviser at British Council Scotland, said:
"British Council Scotland have been working with Festivals Edinburgh on
increasing the international programmes across all of the festivals between
2012 and 2014, in the run up to the Olympics in London and the Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow.
"I think this will be the first of many international partnerships
for Scotland's artistic community and will encourage more international working
and more exciting projects, to raise the ambition of what is possible in
Scotland.
"British Council Scotland will be at the forefront of supporting
that process."
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