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Partnerships between bagpipes and jazz reeds such as clarinet or saxophone, while hardly ten a penny, have become increasingly common over the past fusion-rich decade or so of the folk revival. Thinner on the ground, however, are musicians who have mastered both disciplines. One such piper-saxophonist is Fraser Fifield, formerly of the rumbustious north-east band Old Blind Dogs and lately of the folk-jazz fusion outfit Bag o'Cats and the exuberant Salsa Celtica.
Having learned the pipes in boyhood, he went on to study the saxophone at the RSAMD in Glasgow, and it is the saxophone - or rather five of them - which delivers his...