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Orlando Molina: Autorretrato en tres colores
by Ian Patterson
Autoretratto en Très Colores--A Portrait in Three Colors--the debut of Venezuelan guitarist and composer Orlando Molina as a leader, and it is a work steeped in experience. Though recorded over two years, these compositions feel like the product of a much longer journey--one shaped by study, migration, and growth. The album traces the emotional arc of Molina's move from Venezuela to Ireland, carrying with it echoes of loss and distance, discovery and renewal. Melancholy and hope coexist throughout, bound by ...
Continue ReadingLee Meehan: Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars
by Ian Patterson
Guitarist Lee Meehan has been a key player in Dublin blues and soul bands since the early 2000s. The blues proved to be a handy apprenticeship for the jazz degree Meehan would later pursue, graduating from Dublin City University in 2019. And it is to jazz that Meehan turns on his debut album as leader, a vehicle not just for his considerable six- string agility, but for his compositional, arranging and leadership qualities as well. Nor has Meehan ...
Continue ReadingScott Flanigan: Walking On Clouds
by Ian Patterson
The challenge for any jazz musician is to find a personal voice. Acquiring the language of jazz through countless hours of listening to recordings, through practicing and gigging is not the issue. It is doing so without being shackled to another's style. When Charlie Parker was in his pomp, few saxophonists of the time were able to avoid the flattery of imitation. And over half a century after his death, John Coltrane acolytes are everywhere. So too, contemporary ...
Continue ReadingScott Flanigan: Clouded Lines
by Ian Patterson
A hefty eight years separate Scott Flanigan's debut, Point of Departure (Self Produced, 2015), and Clouded Lines (SF Sounds, 2023). Not that Flanigan has been idle. In the intervening years the Belfast pianist has completed a Ph.D in jazz performance, recorded a duo album with French vocalist Fabrice Mourlon, co-founded a thriving Friday-night jazz club and, in his day to day life, juggles gigging and teaching schedules in Belfast, Dublin and Cork. Clouded Lines, the fruit of a joint commission ...
Continue ReadingScott Flanigan: Point of Departure
by Ian Patterson
In an era where it's relatively easy to self-produce an album, Northern Irish pianist Scott Flanigan has taken his time with his debut effort. Now in his early thirties, Flanigan has been a mainstay of the small but flourishing jazz scene in Belfast and beyond for over a decade, collaborating with Linley Hamilton, David Lyttle and Mark McKnight, not to mention the likes of Van Morrison and Jean Toussaint. It's been a patient apprenticeship that has paid dividends, for Flanigan's ...
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