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Van Morrison: The Essential Van Morrison

Read "The Essential Van Morrison" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
September 19, 2015

Here is a compilation that truly lives up to its name--a generous collection of 37 singer Van Morrison's classic gems, covering a period of several decades of immense creativity and musical journey, from his earliest classics with the band Them up until songs from his later recordings like Magic Time and Pay the Devil. Blessed with ...

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Quiet Music Ensemble: The Mysteries Beyond Matter

Read "The Mysteries Beyond Matter" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
June 21, 2015

The latest release from the redoubtable Farpoint Recordings is the debut recording from Cork-based experimental music group Quiet Music Ensemble (QME)--what a great group name, eh? The group consists of double bassist Dan Bodwell, cellist Ilse De Ziah, clarinetist Seán Mac Erlaine, trombonist Roddy O'Keeffe with ensemble founder and musical director John Godfrey on electric guitar. ...

Article: Live Review

Bray Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
May 11, 2015

Bray Jazz Festival 2015 Various Venues Bray, Ireland May 1-3, 2015 Sunshine and squall. The sun and the clouds chased each other's tails throughout the May Bank Holiday weekend of the Bray Jazz Festival. In a way the weather mirrored the music--a pleasingly eclectic, bracing mixture--and the fortunes of the ...

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12 Points 2015

by Ian Patterson
April 29, 2015

12 Points 2015 Project Arts CentreDublin, IrelandApril 15-18, 2015 In an international calendar absolutely bulging with jazz festivals, 12 Points--conceived in Dublin by Improvised Music Company in 2007--stands out as one of the more original. It's not just the diversity and quality of the music that sets Twelve Points apart, after ...

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Ambrose Akinmusire Headlines Bray Jazz 2015

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. ...

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April Jazz 2015

by Ian Patterson
April 17, 2015

April Jazz 2015 National Concert Hall Dublin April 10-12, 2015 April Jazz is the latest addition to Dublin's thriving jazz/improvised music scene. The weekend festival is part of the National Concert Hall's Perspectives program, a series of monthly concerts that spans modern bluegrass and fiddle soundscapes, alt country and ...

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Manden Express: Manden Express

Read "Manden Express" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2015

The name Manden Express derives from the ancient Manden Empire--better known today as Mali--and its music is an intoxicating fusion of traditional and contemporary West African sounds, Afrobeat and grooving jazz-rock. This EP, its debut release, successfully captures the essence of the Dublin-based septet's thrilling live shows -dance-fests that have made Manden Express a crowd favorite ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...