Jazz Articles about Sam Comerford

About Sam Comerford

Album Review

Back for even more fun, Irish stalwarts Matthew Jacobson and Sam Comerford follow up their EP Insufficient Funs (Self Produced, 2016) with their debut album, Chunk. Insufficient Funs gigs have been intermittent in the intervening decade. Still, drummer Jacobson and saxophonist Comerford have kept their collaborative fires burning in both Ingo Hipp's AERIE and Chris Guilfoyle's Umbra. That Chunk tops the hour playing time may be par for the course for an album these days, but for a duo of ...

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Piergiorgio Pirro: fold/unfold/refold

Read "fold/unfold/refold" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
January 31, 2025

Pianista italiano ormai da tempo residente a Bruxelles, Piergiorgio Pirro ha iniziato con una formazione accademica (e un amore per la musica classica) presso i conservatori Giordano di Foggia e S. Cecilia di Roma, per poi diplomarsi in Piano Jazz alla scuola Bonamici di Pisa, non senza un passaggio per Siena Jazz, e concludere (per ora) il suo percorso al Koninklijk Conservatorium di Bruxelles. Ed è proprio nella capitale belga che Pirro ha assemblato il suo quartetto, con ...

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Umbra: West

by Ian Patterson
September 15, 2018

American road trips have long inspired writers, from Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck and Tom Wolfe, to Hunter S. Thompson, Robert M. Pirsig and Bill Bryson. Fewer are the extended works, similarly inspired, written by musicians. Some things, it seems, may be easier put into words. Umbra's West is inspired by founding member Chris Guilfoyle's 2017 road trip, as evidenced through the song titles, through North America's Western states to Canada. It marks Umbra's full debut, but can be seen as ...

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Thunderblender: Last Minute Panic

Read "Last Minute Panic" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
December 18, 2017

A rising name on the European jazz/improvised music scene, Brussels-based Irish saxophonist Sam Comerford possesses eggs and baskets aplenty, playing regularly in Ingo Hipp's AERIE, Chris Guilfoyle's Umbra, Eve Beuven's Heptatomic, Manolo Cabras' Brilliant Corners, as well as in a duo with Matthew Jacobson. Since 2015, however, Comerford has assumed the mantle of leader with Thunderblender, a trio featuring Belgians Hendrik Lasure on piano and Jens Bouttery on drums. Recorded live in 2016, the EP-length Last Minute Panic sees the ...