Jazz Articles about John Walsh

About John Walsh

Album Review

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

Read "Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 7, 2025

Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts Joaquin Rodrigo's brief “Concerto de Aranjuez," which serves as an introduction to Chick Corea's “Spain") and arranged all of them. Miller's ...

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John Walsh: Irlandalucía

Read "Irlandalucía" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 8, 2021

A blindfold test for this platter might well elicit the names of Vicente Amigo, Niño Josele or Tomatito, as the listener casts around for well-known contemporary flamenco guitarists --so impressive are these seven dashing originals. The composer and guitarist hails not from the south of Spain, however, but from the south of Ireland. John Walsh first came onto the All About Jazz radar at the 2013 Down With Jazz festival in Dublin, where his bravura performance suggested the flamenco soul ...

Album Review

John Walsh: Irlandalucía

Read "Irlandalucía" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
March 12, 2021

Flamenco music might not be the first thing that one would associate with Ireland, but John Walsh hopes to change that mindset. A classically trained Irish guitarist, he is quickly making a place for himself among the major flamenco artists. Irlandalucía is said to be the first flamenco album to be released by an Irish musician, and here Walsh proves his mastery of the genre. Walsh studied classical guitar at Trinity Conservatoire in London, where he earned a ...