Results for "Ireland"

Article: Live Review

Improvised Music Company@25, Various Artists At Sugar Club

by Ian Patterson
December 14, 2016

Improvised Music Company@25 Sugar Club Dublin, Ireland November 26, 2016 It was an appropriately festive atmosphere in the Sugar Club to mark Improvised Music Company's twenty fifth birthday celebrations. Older musicians, perhaps just starting out a quarter of a century ago, rubbed shoulders with the current generation of aspiring ...

Article: Live Review

Charles Lloyd Quartet at Vicar Street

by Ian Patterson
November 28, 2016

Charles Lloyd Quartet Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland November 16, 2016 Two years after playing Dublin's National Concert Hall, NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd returned to the Irish capital and the more intimate surroundings of Vicar Street. Last time out Lloyd's New Quartet featured Gerald Clayton in lieu of Jason Moran, Joe ...

Article: Profile

Improvised Music Company: Orbital Pathways, Gravitational Pull

by Ian Patterson
November 22, 2016

Arguably some of the most dramatic changes in jazz have taken place in the last quarter of its century-long history: the emergence of a strong European jazz identity/identities; technological advances that empower individuals to become their own producers; Youtube, which has all but erased the boundary between past and present; the increase in pedagogical institutions; pan-national ...

News: Performance / Tour

Legendary NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd Plays Vicars Street in Dublin on November 16

November 12, 2016

Charles Lloyd, one of jazz’s historic greats, returns to Dublin with his classic quartet on Wednesday 16 November for a one-off show on Irish soil as part of an extensive European tour. Described by Nate Chinen as “a storyteller with a seeker’s heart… one of jazz’s great mystery men”, the show comes two years after Lloyd’s ...

Article: Live Review

Galway Jazz Festival 2016

by Ian Patterson
October 31, 2016

Galway Jazz Festival Various Venues Galway, Ireland October 7-9, 2016 The best jazz festivals are not necessarily the biggest. They're not always the ones with the marquee names. The best festivals, without a doubt, are the ones you remember, years later, for having had a hell of a good time. ...

Article: Album Review

Van Morrison: Keep Me Singing

Read "Keep Me Singing" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 8, 2016

Van Morrison remains a beautifully mercurial creative force. Thirty-six discreet recordings into a 52-year career, Morrison has only Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, as poly-genre conquering peers, each of whose reach has proven to be expansive and penetrating. This is a rarified trio, to be sure, a very selective club that needs be no larger. Morrison's ...

Article: Live Review

Bojan Z at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

by Ian Patterson
September 13, 2016

Bojan Z Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, Ireland September 4, 2016 It's been ten years since All About Jazz last encountered Bojan Z in a live solo context, in Cambodia, where the France-based, Serbian pianist gave a riveting performance that drew heavily from Solobsession (Label Bleu, 2000). Although often playing in ...

Article: Album Review

Kevin Brady: Ensam

by Ian Patterson
August 26, 2016

The trans-Atlantic trio of drummer/composer Kevin Brady, Bill Carrothers and Dave Redmond first came together in 2006, since when it has toured more frequently than it's recorded. Ensam (LRP Music, 2016), the group's third outing, following Common Ground (The Livingroom Project, 2007) and Zeitgeist (Fresh Sounds, New Talent, 2009), is an intimate three-way dialogue, with veteran ...

Article: Film Review

U2: Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris

by Nenad Georgievski
July 17, 2016

U2 Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris Interscope 2016 Music's soothing powers in times of tragedy and upheaval have proven to give comfort, inspire dialogue and open people's minds. Giving succor to victims of tragedies and terrorist attacks is in a way music's noble employment. Music always provides ...

Article: Album Review

Christy Doran: In The Corner Of The Eye

Read "In The Corner Of The Eye" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 10, 2016

Celebrated Irish guitarist Christy Doran's penchant to keep reinventing his musical self is quite evident due to the disparate bands and solo projects he's undertaken for several decades. Whether imparting a jazz fusion spin on Jimi Hendrix with the band Call Me Helium Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (Double Moon, 2005) or experimental jazz and ...