‘It isn’t every day I receive a press release about a new traditional jazz recording partly written in Scots, but that’s what arrived with a copy of the New Phoenix jazz Band’s recent album. You have to understand that the New Phoenix band, which undertakes to capture the energy and spirit of early 20th century jazz without succumbing to slavish recreation, was founded by bassist Jerry Forde, whose father Iain W D Forde, the outfit’s drummer, has been about the Scottish jazz scene since the late 1950s, and is also a ground-breaking writer in Scots, having published a pioneering contemporary novel in uncompromising Scots prose, The Paix Machine, back in 1996…more’