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Leon Buckley Quartet At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
July 27, 2026

Leon Buckley QuartetScott's Jazz Club Jazz Futures Belfast, N. Ireland July 24, 2026 There is nothing like a good typo to induce the titters. Hats off to the Belfast gig guide who listed this one as the 'Leon Bucket Quarter.' It could have been worse. In a 1631 reprint ...

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Vilnius Mama Jazz 2026

by Ian Patterson
June 11, 2026

Vilnius Mama Jazz Lithuanian National Drama Theatre25th Edition Vilnius. LithuaniaMay 22-24, 2026 Vilnius Mama Jazz turned 25. In festival terms that is early middle age. When you consider that 25 years is roughly a quarter of the entire history of jazz, the significance of the milestone assumes greater meaning.

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Brilliant Corners 2026

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2026

Brilliant Corners 2026Black Box/Various VenuesBelfast, N. IrelandFebruary 27-March 7, 2026 Few events signpost the time of year quite like a city's flagship contemporary music festival. For one week every March, as winter gradually recedes, Belfast's aptly named Brilliant Corners illuminates jazz--and jazz-adjacent music--in many of its myriad forms. Inevitably, some of the more outré ...

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Tommy Halferty's Whirlpool At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
January 20, 2026

Tommy Halferty's Whirlpool Scott's Jazz Club Tribute to Miles Davis' In A Silent WayBelfast, N. Ireland January 16, 2025 In the centenary year of Miles Davis' birth, homages will take many forms. There will be the inevitable re-releases, box sets, books, and an ocean of opinion pieces. Concerts paying tribute to jazz's greatest chameleon ...

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Jorge Vistel At Dock Street Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
January 18, 2026

Jorge VistelDock Street Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland January 11, 2026 It took Jorge Vistel just one trumpet solo--a hypnotic four minutes of deft lyricism and technical bravura--to signal to the audience that it was in for a treat. Such a balance of emotional heft and virtuosity made it easy to conclude that music ...

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Mulo Francel & Rami Attallah Group: Global Players

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by Ian Patterson
December 17, 2025

For most professional jazz musicians the jazz life is a labor of love--endless gigs over countless miles, early morning starts and early morning finishes. It is not all glamour, and the bills have to be paid, after all. Still, the lure of the road persists, and in this age of globalization the average jazz musician can ...

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Carole Nelson Trio: Through The Storm

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by Ian Patterson
December 13, 2025

Twenty million years of song. And then silence. The seeds of Through The Storm--Carole Nelson Trio's fourth album since forming in 2015--germinated from a cautionary tale. In 1987, a male Kauaʻi ʻōʻō --a bird native to Hawaii--sang to court a prospective mate. Its song met with silence. In 2000, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

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Jean Toussaint At Dock Street Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
December 7, 2025

Jean ToussaintDock Street Jazz Club Belfast, N. IrelandNovember 28, 2025 A filthy night in Belfast. Relentless rain. The real wet stuff, as they say here. The sort of Sunday night where it would take a damned good reason to venture out. Jean Toussaint was reason enough. It is not every day, after all, that ...

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Nigel Price Organ Trio At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
December 4, 2025

Nigel Price Organ Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. IrelandNovember 29, 2025 You probably have to go back to the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the '50s to find a harder-touring jazz outfit than the Nigel Price Organ Trio. Between the beginning of April and the end of June 1950 Ellington led his musicians through 74 ...

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Orlando Molina At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
December 2, 2025

Orlando Molina Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland October 28, 2025 One of the great things about Scott's Jazz Club is that musicians are often invited back. You get to see the first steps and evolution of a band or a leader new to the scene. You experience the growth and development of established ...