Peter Johnstone's International Organ Quartet with Joe Locke for UK summer tour

A former Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, keyboardist Peter Johnstone here leads a high-calibre band that includes New York-based vibes virtuoso Joe Locke, alongside leading Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith and Johnstone’s Scottish National Jazz Orchestra colleague, Alyn Cosker on drums. The quartet plays music exclusively written by Johnstone which is also featured on its debut album, Resistance is Futile, which is release to coincide with the tour.

Johnstone has toured internationally with vocalist Kurt Elling and Vienna-based American saxophonist Andy Middleton and worked with guitarists Jim Mullen, Rob Luft and Nigel Price as well as appearing extensively as pianist with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. He is also Tommy Smith’s partner in a duo that plays Lincoln Cathedral on Sunday 7 July and is the first graduate of the jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow to return in a teaching capacity.

“It’s fantastic to hear such accomplished musicians as Joe, Tommy and Alyn bringing my music off the page,” says Johnstone of the band. “Our first tour included sell-out concerts in Glasgow and at Ronnie Scott’s and I can’t wait to get everyone back together for these dates.”

Dates are: Watermill Jazz, Dorking (8 July); 606 Club, London (9 July), Zeffirelli’s, Ambleside (10 July) and Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival (11 July). 

For more info visit www.peterjohnstone.com