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John Donegan - The Irish Sextet: Light Streams

Read "Light Streams" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
February 20, 2024

Irish pianist John Donegan may not be a household name, but the Cork musician has walked with giants, playing with the likes of Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel and Ireland's own jazz great, guitarist Louis Stewart. He has also been on something of a roll with his Irish sextet, with Light Streams quickly following on ...

Article: Profile

Louis Stewart's Out On His Own: A Landmark Solo Guitar Recording

by Ian Patterson
January 5, 2024

Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944--August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the first world-class jazz musician to emerge from Ireland and make a name on the international stage. During a fifty-plus-year career, Stewart played with Benny Goodman, ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Album

Some Other Blues

By Louis Stewart

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Yesterdays; You Stepped Out Of a Dream; I Only Have Time To Say I Love You; Minority; I’ll Remember April; If You Could See Me Now; Some Other Blues; Some Time Ago; Singin’ In The Rain.

Album

Out On His Own

By Louis Stewart

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Blue Bossa; Windows; Darn That Dream; Wave; She Moved Through The Fair; Make Someone Happy; I’m All Smiles; Stella By Starlight; Lazy Afternoon; Invitation; I’m Old Fashioned; General Mojo’s Well Laid Plans; What’s New; I’ll Remember April; Spring Is Here; Blues; Forest Flower; What’s New (alternate take); Spring Is Here (alternate take).

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kaisa Mäensivu, Jacob Young, Debora Petrina, Mowgli & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 11, 2023

This week we focus on a bunch of projects that put lots of seemingly disparate elements into a blender and come up with distinctive sounds, from the smooth to the edgy.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Kaisa's Machine “Dream Machine" Taking Shape (Greenleaf) 0:16 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music From Formanek's Elusion Quartet And More

by Bob Osborne
June 22, 2023

On this show the featured album is the new release from Michael Formanek's Elusion Quartet. There is also new music from Jim Alfredson, Laila Ferman, Guzmán Calzada & Sofía Scheps, Louis Stewart & Noel Kelehan, Joëlle Léandre with Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri, Juan Pastor / Chinchano, Javier Red's Imagery Convertor, Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, and, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

All New Sounds From Gillece, Berne, The JOI Jazz Orchestra And More

by Bob Osborne
May 25, 2023

On this show we present new music from Behn Gillece, Tim Berne with Aurora Nealand and Hank Roberts, and The JOI Jazz Orchestra. In addition three new releases on the Diskoknife lable from Audible Spirits, Darren Johnston, and, Mick Rossi with Peter Hess and Matt Moran. There are also new releases from Ben Sher, Massimo Magee,Louis ...

Article: Live Review

Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
April 7, 2023

Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton Scott's Jazz Club Jazz In The Round Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2023 Sergei Rachmaninoff surely wouldn't have minded. As Chamber Choir Ireland was tackling the Russian composer's choral masterpiece All Night Vigil in a Belfast monastery, across town in Ballyhackamore another ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases from Neumeister, Novoa, Ishito And More

by Bob Osborne
March 30, 2023

On this show a selection of new releases from Ed Neumeister, Eva Novoa with Masa Kamaguchi & Gerald Cleaver, Jeff Lofton, Louis Stewart, Armagos, Dave Askren with Jeff Benedict & Ted Piltzecker, Helena Kay KIM Trio, Kaze & Ikue Mori, Ivann Cruz and Peter Orins, and Ayumi Ishito & The Spacemen.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 ...