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Jangeun Bae: JB
by Ian Patterson
Since her debut, The End and Everything After (Kang Music, 2006), Korean pianist Jangeun Bae has largely followed her personal muse, writing original compositions and reworking Korean folk tunes, with the occasional jazz standard thrown in for good measure. She's also refashioned Mozart on Mozart and Jazz (Universal Music, 2007) and recorded with saxophonist Greg Osby. ...
Quentin Angus: Perception
by Ian Patterson
Australia boasts an embarrassment of great jazz musicians, an increasing number of whom have made their way to New York in recent years to broaden their horizons. Guitarist Quentin Angus is one such notable Aussie talent. Here Angus follows up his promising debut, Retrieval Structure (Self Produced, 2011) with another assured work that highlights his tasteful ...
Ernie Watts: A Simple Truth
by Ian Patterson
The title of Ernie Watt's seventh release on his Flying Dolphin label reflects the tenor great's guiding philosophy, as he explained in a recent interview for dublinjazz.ie: “We are creating our reality all day every day by the thoughts that we think and by the things that we say and by our belief systems. It's a ...
Experimental Musician Hauschka Plays Cork And Dublin, June 6-7
Internationally acclaimed experimental musician Hauschka will play Cork, June 6 and Dublin June 7. Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka is a composer, songwriter and experimental musician who has brought an exciting new perspective to the prepared piano. Hauschka will present his new album Abandoned City to audiences, and sees him continuing to push the envelope and raise ...
Phronesis Plays One Off Belfast Gig May 30
Phronesis will play a one-off Belfast gig at the Crescent Arts Centre, Friday May 30. Formed by Danish bassist Jasper Høiby in 2005, the energy and individuality of Phronesis comes from an extraordinary democracy of expression and intuitive empathy between the musicians - British pianist Ivo Neame and Swedish drummer Anton Eger come together with Høiby ...
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Play National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman will play the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, May 29. Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time. Courvoisier has led several groups over ...
OKO: I Love You Computer Mountain
by Ian Patterson
While pretty much all music is derivative, and to a greater or lesser degree inspired by what has gone before, every so often a band appears that shakes up the status quo. OKO--formed in 2010 out of the Dublin collective Bottleneck--certainly doesn't hide its influences on its debut recording, but its musical paint box of electronica, ...
Brad Mehldau: Dragons & Dreams
by Ian Patterson
For many, pianist Brad Mehldau's recording Day is Done (Nonesuch Records, 2005) with drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier came as close to trio perfection as is reasonable to expect in your wildest dreams. Perhaps perfection is a chimera, yet even if attainable it's at best fleeting by nature. But for Mehldau that doesn't stop ...
Ricardo Herz Trio/Phisqa at BelloBar
by Ian Patterson
Ricardo Herz Trio/Phisqa BelloBar Dublin, Ireland May 21 2014 It was a happy case of serendipity. The square in front of BelloBar was buzzing with vocal chants, clapping, percussion and the twangy rhythmic drive of three berimbau, urging on the dancers in their strange ballet that was part mime, part cutting ...
Down With Jazz Den Of Vice Returns To Haunt Catholic Church
Down With Jazz, the festival that reels back the decades to the anti-jazz movement of the 1930’s, is back for a third edition; this time over the June Bank Holiday weekend. Who knows what class of devilment Dublin's citizens will get up if the sun comes out, with hip swiveling music and decadent improvising from the ...
