Pianist Fergus McCreadie on his new album and the challenges facing the Scottish jazz scene
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With a Scottish Album of the Year Award and a Mercury Prize shortlisting under his belt, Fergus McCreadie is one of the stars of Scotland exciting new jazz generation. At the same time, however, jazz venues are disappearing at an alarming rate. The recent loss of Edinburgh’s Jazz Bar was ‘a reminder of how fragile things are’, he tells Jim Gilchrist