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Julien Colarossi

Originally from Settefrati, Italy, guitarist and composer Julien Colarossi, born the 4th of February 1988, has recently graduated with a first-class honours degree in jazz performance from Newpark Music Centre in Dublin, Ireland. Since moving to Ireland in 2007, Julien has established himself as one of the most exciting young guitarists to emerge in recent years on the Irish contemporary jazz scene. He is gaining a strong reputation not only as a performer but also as a composer and teacher. Julien studied jazz guitar in Ireland with Tommy Halferty and Ariel Hernandez. He studied composition with Ronan Guilfoyle, rhythm studies with Conor Guilfoyle, ear-training and harmony with Gèrman Lima and Phil Ware, and jazz history and world music with Francesco Turrisi. In 2010 Julien was awarded a $16,000 scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston

Galway Jazz Festival 2018: Day 2

By JAMES FLEMING

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4Various Venues Galway Jazz Festival Galway, Ireland October 5, 2018 Thursday night's curtain rose on a brighter day, and a breeze blew gently down Galway's streets carrying the smell of the city on its back: petrol, coffee, sea-salt, cigarettes. ...

Bray Jazz Festival 2018

By IAN PATTERSON

Bray Jazz Festival Various Venues jny:Bray, Ireland May 4-6, 2018 From the hilltop vantage point the Irish Sea lies veiled under a blanket of thick mist. Greystones, five miles to the right, birthplace of the great Christy Doran, peeks out, seemingly floating above the misty clouds like a Roger ...

Just The Way We Are

By JULIEN COLAROSSI

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Uptown Funk; Bridge Over Troubled Water; Just the Way you Are; Dreams; Don’t you Worry ‘Bout a Thing; Effimera; Can’t Stop the Feeling; Golden Lady; It’s a Long Road; Off the Wall; And I Love Her; Something at Sea.

Julien & John: Just The Way We Are

By IAN PATTERSON

Not to be confused with the Julian and John duo of Bream and Williams fame, Julien and John are Julien Colarossi and John Keogh, two fine guitarists in their own right. This is the Dublin duo's second release, eighteen months on from Street Life (Self-Produced, 2016). Like their debut recording, Just The Way We Are sees ...

Bray Jazz 2016

By IAN PATTERSON

Bray Jazz Various venues jny:Bray, Ireland April 29 -May 1, 2016 With first-rate music festivals mushrooming all over Ireland, Bray Jazz remains a highlight in a crowded calendar. Now in its seventeenth year, Bray Jazz' tried and tested format strikes a pleasing balance musically, with jazz, folk and world musics in ...

Bray Jazz Festival 2015

By IAN PATTERSON

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 ...

Linley Hamilton Quintet at Black Box

By IAN PATTERSON

Linley Hamilton Quintet Black Box Belfast, Ireland March 13, 2015 Since the launch of In Transition (Lyte Records, 2014) at the Brilliant Corners festival last March, the Linley Hamilton Quintet has gigged only sporadically. With members split between Dublin, Port Laoise and Belfast, geography plays its part to a degree. However, ...

Note to Self

By JULIEN COLAROSSI

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Ricordandoti; Uncle Francle; Effimera; Ruhie & Calle; Journey to Zero; Il Postino; Gold; David & Goliath; Sincerity; Dichotomy.