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ReDiviDeR: ReDiviDeR meets I Dig Monk, Tuned
by Ian Patterson
Jazz/creative music fans who dig palindromes and anagrams had to wait a long time between trumpeter Miles Davis' Live Evil (Columbia, 1971) and ReDiviDeR's debut Never Odd or EveN (Diatribe Records, 2011). Forty years must be an eternity for addicts of words that spell the same way backwards as they do forwards. In addition to the ...
David Lyttle Trio Embarks On 14-date Irish Tour
For the first time in two years, drummer/producer David Lyttle returns to the jazz trio format, embarking on a 14-date tour throughout Ireland, North and South. The guts of the last two years have seen Lyttle promoting his jazz/hip-hop album Interlude (Lyte Records, 2012), whose urban grooves featured guitarist Andreas Varady, trumpeter Linley Hamilton, saxophonist Michael ...
Christine Tobin Trio For Limerick Jazz Festival 2013
Jazz retakes the city of Limerick for four days as the Limerick Jazz Festival returns for its second edition from the 26th – 29th September at various venues around town. Legendary Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart kicks off the festival on Thursday, in an intimate duo performance with pianist Jim Doherty. Winner of the special jury ...
Down With Jazz 2013
by Ian Patterson
Down With JazzMeeting House SquareDublin, IrelandSeptember 6-8, 2013 Father Conefrey must be turning in his grave. He's surely cursing the cruel fates, for jazz you see, is alive and kicking in Dublin. On New Year's Day 1934 Father Conefrey led a 3,000-strong protest on the streets of Mohill in County Leitrim ...
Magnus Ostrum Plays Navan & Carrick-on-shannon, Ireland
Magnus Öström (e.s.t - The Esbjorn Svensson Trio) plays two Irish dates only to celebrate the release of his new album, Searching for Jupiter (ACT Music, 2013). Magnus Öström has confidently stepped out of EST's huge shadow to assert himself as a central figure in the Scandinavian Jazz scene, with his debut album Thread of Life ...
Jazz's Filthy Rhythms And Diabolical Airs To Rock Dublin!
Historical wounds have been known to fester in Ireland. In 1934 Father Peter Conefrey railed against jazz as “music borrowed from the savages of Africa by the anti-God society, with the object of destroying morals and religion.” Now the jazz community is getting its own back. Eighty years on the Improvised Music Company, in conjunction with ...
John Moriarty: Echoes
by Ian Patterson
Adopting a traditional, straight-ahead approach to the quartet, Irish guitarist John Moriarty gathered three established New York-based musicians for one day in the Bunker Studios, Brooklyn. The title suggests homage, and there is a hint of classic Blue Note in the leader's clean lines--evocative of guitarist Jim Hall--and in half of the songs that delve into ...
Are You The Next Great Jazz Musician? Music Network Offers Recording Opportunity!
ARE YOU THE NEXT GREAT JAZZ MUSICIAN? CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR NEW GENERATION AWARD 2013 Music Network invites applications for the NEW GENERATION AWARD 2013, a unique professional development programme designed to assist a selected group of Ireland's brightest young musicians at the beginning of their professional career. The award this year is open to young ...
Sligo Jazz Project 2013: Days 4-6
by Ian Patterson
Sligo Jazz ProjectVarious VenuesSligo, Ireland July 16-21, 2013 After three action-packed days at Sligo Jazz Project, with SJP founder/bassist Eddie Lee and drummer David Lyttle's world premiere of The Barinthus Suite providing an unforgettable highlight, the first signs of attrition amongst the students were beginning to show. The non-stop nature of ...
Sligo Jazz Project 2013: Days 1-3
by Ian Patterson
Sligo Jazz ProjectVarious VenuesSligo, IrelandJuly 16-21, 2013 For such a small country, perched on the Western extreme of Europe, Ireland has created a disproportionate amount of history, and had more than its fair share thrust upon it. Everywhere, history informs the landscape and the collective memory. Sligo, home to the Sligo ...
