Jazz Café Band issues a new CD

Arran’s JCB, as if is affectionately known, has put together another CD, called Midnight in Machrie. The stunning cover was designed by Christian Pomeroy, who plays an inspired trumpet with the band when not studying art in Glasgow, and the numbers include old favourites, plus a voluptuous rendering by Samantha Payn of the old Russian tune, Midnight in Moscow. (Hence the title, duh.)The stunningly talented Biff Simpson again delivers numbers that hit the audience plumb in the middle of their wee souls, and the instrumentalists keep up a varied stream of jazz and blues, with the occasional oddity. In shops for Christmas, at £10.