Dance and drink till three for free!

Every good festival has a fringe - even that minor event in Edinburgh. And the Glenmorangie Glasgow Jazz Festival adheres strictly to this rule, with one tiny difference. Almost all of this particular fringe is free.

You can experience Brazilian music such as that on offer in the Beardmore Hotel and the City Cafe (in the City Inn) or listen to big- band swing in the huge acoustics of Princes Square.

You can dig Dixieland in Merchant Square, play it cool in McChuill's or mellow out with Ken Mathieson in Blackfriars - and all that is just on July 1.

Other venues are Bar 91, Eat Drink Man Woman, Loop and even Glasgow Airport, where the Lorna Brown Quartet will be giving it hot licks.

Cafe Cossachok will have Nigel Clark and Russian violinist Lev Atlas performing a programme of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli classics while, in the Tron Theatre bar, Madeline Eastman will make you glad to be a grown-up.

There is also the official late-night Jazz Club at the Marriot. It is hosted by the inimitable Fionna Duncan and, for many, it is the place to be between the witching hour and 3am, when deeds are done and songs are sung (sometimes both) by the various visiting jazz legends, all of whom are invited onto the floor to strut their stuff.

The bar is open till 3am and the 50th person though the door each night wins a bottle of Glenmorangie 10-year-old.

The Jazz Club is an exception to the free rule as it costs a miserly #2 but you do get in free if you have been to one of the concerts that day.

Glenmorangie also add to the fringe with promos where you can win free drams, T-shirts and the like in the bars and restaurants.

There is a lot of free stuff going down and you don't want to be out of it. Call 0141-400 5000 for a free programme - and get fringing!

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