National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland – Jazz and Film Night

A night of live music and great Jazz film. We start with a live set from this years Jazz Ambassadors: Ru Pattison, Richard Foote, Alan Benzie, Andrew Robb, Jonathan Silk and Rick Taylor.
In ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ (1972, 144 mins) pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday’s traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday’s brightest moments is the vocalist’s severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.