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Guitar in the Space Age!
by Ian Patterson
Though prototype electric guitar first appeared in the early 1930s, the instrument only became a staple of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s. As a musical revolution was evolving, so was a different type altogether -space exploration. Sixty years on, in an age when the challenge is just to keep abreast of technological innovations it ...
Charles Lloyd New Quartet Plays National Concert Hall, Dublin, 18 November
TEDDY D PROMOTIONS ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET: NATIONAL CONCERTY HALL DUBLIN, 18 NOVEMBER, 2014 Charles Lloyd - Sax / Flute, Gerald Clayton – Piano, Joe Sanders – Bass, Eric Harland – Drums The critical consensus is that Charles Lloyd has never sounded better. As he enters his 75th year, the depth ...
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau Play National Concert Hall, Dublin, November 9
The National Concert Hall plays host to one of the most thrilling American musicians of his generation, Chris Thile of Punch Brothers in a new duo with the acclaimed pianist Brad Mehldau. Both artists are inspired by a wide range of composers and songwriters, from Bach to Radiohead. Now these kindred spirits combine their dazzling imaginations ...
Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet At The Crescent Arts Centre
by Ian Patterson
Louis Moholo-Moholo The Crescent Arts Centre Belfast October 30, 2014 Ireland has been graced by the presence of two South African musical icons in October. First, the brilliant, seventy-five-year-old trumpeter Hugh Masekela played Dublin and then a little over a week later Louis Moholo-Moholo--younger by a year--kicked up a storm ...
Dianne Reeves At The Belfast Festival 2014
by Ian Patterson
Dianne Reeves Belfast Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 26, 2014 Dianne Reeves' first visit to Belfast coincided with her first album in five years. For some artists, say Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny or John Zorn, a gap of half a decade between releases would be spoken of in reverential terms ...
Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project At The Belfast Festival 2014
by Ian Patterson
Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project Belfast Festival / Elmwood Hall Belfast October 24, 2014 What's in a name? Quite a lot if it happens to be Reinhardt. That surname still excites press and public alike more than sixty years after the death of guitarist Django Reinhardt. It also generates a ...
Hanna Paulsberg: Home Grown Concept
by Ian Patterson
Norwegian saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg is slowly but surely building a reputation as one of the brightest young jazz musicians to have emerged from Norway in recent years. Her debut at the head of the Hanna Paulsberg Concept, Waltz for Lilli (Ora Fonogram, 2012) introduced a composer/musician with strong melodic and rhythmic sensibilities and made a convincing ...
Diatribe Records Solo Series II
by Ian Patterson
Four years on from Diatribe Records' outstanding Solo Series I, which featured solo piano recordings by Izumi Kimura and Isabelle O'Connell, a guitar solo offering from Simon Jermyn and a clarinet solo work from Paul Roe, the Dublin label is back with the equally impressive Solo Series II. The four musicians presented in this second round ...
Hanna Paulsberg Concept: Song For Josia
by Ian Patterson
Norwegian saxophonist Hanna Paulsberg founded the HPC in 2011, whislt studying at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her quartet's debut, Waltz for Lilli (Ora Fonogram, 2012) announced a notable talent, one conversant in the North American swing tradition as well as influences closer to home. The concept, perhaps, was not new, but ...
Nguyen Le With Michael Gibbs & NDR Bigband: Celebrating The Dark Side Of The Moon
by Ian Patterson
It's a bold concept; take Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest, 1973) and reinterpret it in a big band jazz setting. With upwards of forty million copies sold, every note, every nuance of Floyd's eighth album is so firmly entrenched in the minds of the band's legion devotees that to tamper with the ...
