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Album Review

Sue Rynhart: Say Pluto

Read "Say Pluto" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Traditionalist or avant-garde provocateur? Singer or poet? Dubliner Sue Rynhart is all these things and more, and therein lies her appeal. Her debut, Crossings (Songs For Voice And Double Bass) (Self Produced, 2015), an alluring duo recording with Dan Bodwell, earned Rynhart broad critical acclaim for its hybrid folk, indie pop, spoken word and jazz/improvised spirit. Signals (Mrsuesue Records, 2017) added new textures to similar ingredients, with mbira, recorders, zither and Francesco Turrisi's lute and frame drum ornamenting Rynhart's strikingly ...

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Album Review

Benjamin Boone: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions

Read "Confluence: The Ireland Sessions" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Saxophonist/composer/educator Benjamin Boone is known as a project artist in the first degree. His collaboration with major modern poets has produced a foursome of albums on the Origin Records label, including two with US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine. His saxophone approach could be described as colorful melodicism, a quality accentuated by Boone's open ended compositions that lack the confinement of dense chordal harmony. His playing can then function off the leash so to speak, darting off in a full spectrum ...

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Benjamin Boone: Confluence - The Ireland Sessions

Read "Benjamin Boone: Confluence - The Ireland Sessions" reviewed by Jason Crane


"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." --Oliver Wendell Holmes “It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." --Brendan Behan The Oliver Wendell Holmes quote is loftier, but the Brendan Behan quote gets closer to the heart of the matter on saxophonist Benjamin Boone's new album Confluence: The Ireland Sessions, which finds Boone ...

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Album Review

John Donegan - The Irish Sextet: Light Streams

Read "Light Streams" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Irish pianist John Donegan may not be a household name, but the Cork musician has walked with giants, playing with the likes of Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel and Ireland's own jazz great, guitarist Louis Stewart. He has also been on something of a roll with his Irish sextet, with Light Streams quickly following on the heels of Shadows Linger (Jayde Records, 2022). And with a third sextet album on the near horizon, Donegan is enjoying an Indian summer. ...

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John Donegan - The Irish Sextet: Shadows Linger

Read "Shadows Linger" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Shadows Linger is the seventh album from veteran Irish pianist John Donegan, whose dedication to jazz dates back to the '70s when he played on the scenes of his native Cork and later Dublin, before moving across the pond to England. While in Dublin, Donegan worked with the Irish legends guitarist Louis Stewart and drummer John Wadham as well as tenor saxophonist Dick Buckley, whose saxophone-playing sons Richie Buckley and Michael Buckley feature here in a potent front-line which also ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Confluence: The...

Origin Records
2024

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Say Pluto

Mrsuusuerecords
2024

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Light Streams

Jayde Records
2023

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Shadows Linger

Jayde Records
2022

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On the Banks of the Shannon

From: Confluence: The Ireland Sessions
By Dan Bodwell

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