Jazz Articles about Rhythm Method

Rhythm Method: By The Bye

by Ian Patterson
January 1, 2015

Rhythm Method--a quintet of some of Dublin's finest contemporary musicians--was founded by guitarist Shane Latimer and bassist Cormac O'Brien in 2009. Trumpeter Bill Blackmore, Rhodes keyboardist Darragh O'Kelly and Latimer form a probing three-pronged front-line, with O'Brien and drummer Shane O'Donavan plying lithe grooves. The division of labor, however, is not quite that simple, for like the Miles Davis' electric groups that seem to provide much of the collective inspiration, everyone rides the interlocking rhythms. However, whereas Davis' groups jammed ...