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Hyphen Dash Wins First Prize In the Inaugural Ukrainian Jazz Prize 2025

Source: Ian Patterson
April 21, 2026

The Ukrainian Institute, in partnership with the Europe Jazz Network (EJN), is proud to announce the winners of the first Ukrainian Jazz Prize 2025, a national award established to recognise outstanding Ukrainian jazz musicians and support their international development. The Prize highlights the diversity, innovation, and resilience of the Ukrainian jazz scene and aims to strengthen its presence within the European and global music landscape. Best Ukrainian Jazz Band 2025 The Grand Prix has been awarded to Hyphen Dash. The ...

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Performance / Tour

Legendary NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd Plays Vicars Street in Dublin on November 16

Source: All About Jazz
November 12, 2016

Charles Lloyd, one of jazz’s historic greats, returns to Dublin with his classic quartet on Wednesday 16 November for a one-off show on Irish soil as part of an extensive European tour. Described by Nate Chinen as “a storyteller with a seeker’s heart… one of jazz’s great mystery men”, the show comes two years after Lloyd’s triumphant performance at the NEC, but this visit offers fans the rare chance to see NEA Jazz Master Lloyd in the more intimate, club-like ...

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Festival

Ambrose Akinmusire Headlines Bray Jazz 2015

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2015

Bray Jazz returns for its 16th edition this coming Bank Holiday weekend from 1-3 May. The highly popular festival, set in the picturesque seaside town of Bray nestled at the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains, has built a reputation over the years for hosting world class international and local acts. Bray Jazz 2015 is no exception. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire was voted Downbeat Artist of The Year 2011 and is widely considered as one of the most exciting jazz trumpeters on ...

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Event

12 Points Showcase Club & Jam Session Serves Up Three Of The Best New Irish Jazz Bands

Source: All About Jazz
April 12, 2015

As if 12 Points main program wasn’t enough for serious music lovers, 12 Points Showcase Club & Jam Session puts three of Ireland’s hottest new ands under the spotlight from 11pm upstairs in Sweeneys. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, 12 Points hijinks continue into the wee small hours with ‘fringe’ after-show gigs and improvisation-friendly jam sessions for 12 Points ticket holders, musicians and delegates. Three of Irelands most exciting emerging bands will lead the way, showcasing what Dublin’s experimental ...

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Festival

12 Points Returns With Best Of New European Jazz, Dublin, April 15-18

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2015

12 Points returns to his spiritual home of Dublin at the Project Arts Centre from April 15-18 for 4 days of exciting young jazz acts from across Europe, with daytime ‘Jazz Futures’ seminar and after-hours jam sessions. Festival Pass €50 / Daily Tickets €15/12 “The freshest, hottest sounds in jazz and contemporary experimental music” —The Irish Times 4 days, 12 young cutting-edge acts from 12 different European countries with widely diverse sounds; rebelling and reinterpreting any fixed notions of ‘jazz’. ...

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Event

1st International Jarek Smietana Jazz Guitar Competition - Closing Date For Applications 15 April

Source: All About Jazz
April 9, 2015

My Polish Heart Foundation is proud to announce the inaugural International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition, which will be held in Cracow from 1-4 July, 2015. The International Jarek Śmietana Jazz Guitar Competition is in honor of Jarek Śmietana, one of the most significant figures in Polish jazz for over four decades, who passed away on 2 September 2013 after a long fight with a brain tumor. The competition is open to guitarists form any country up to the age ...

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Event

The Bad Plus Performs The Ornette Coleman Masterpiece Science Fiction, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 12 April

Source: All About Jazz
April 5, 2015

As part of the extraordinary weekend of music that is April Jazz, The Bad Plus with very special guests will perform Ornette Coleman’s classic album Science Fiction (Columbia, 1972) in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Sunday, 12 April, 8pm. Ornette Coleman’s 1972 album Science Fiction, “a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy...it's overflowing with brilliance” (Allmusic), is widely considered a landmark recording and especially so for pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King of ...

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Event

Extraordinary Cellist Ernst Reijseger Plays National Concert Hall Dublin

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2015

Cellist Ernst Reijseger will kick off April Jazz—a spectacular weekend of music in the Irish capital—in the John Field Room of The National Concert Hall on Friday, April 10, in a trio alongside pianist Harmen Fraanje and Mola Sylla on vocals, m’bira, xala and kongoma. The trio’s latest CD, Count To Zen (Winter and Winter, 2015) was described by All About Jazz Italia as “one of the most beautiful collections of tunes published in the last five years.” Reijseger is ...

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