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Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mociriță Cu Trifoi ; Până Când Nu Te Iubeam ; Trece-un Nouraş Pe Sus ; Song.

Article: Album Review

Aengus Hackett Trio: Aengus Hackett Trio

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by Ian Patterson
August 17, 2024

It was surely a matter of time before Aengus Hackett got around to a contemporary jazz trio recording. The Galway guitarist has been a regular on the Irish jazz scene since graduating from the Conservatory of Amsterdam where he studied with Jesse van Ruller. But like many of his contemporaries, jazz is only one facet of ...

Article: Album Review

Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

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by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2024

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into the city's fluid jazz/improvised music scenes, working with Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty and Cello Ireland. Her debut album Person I Knew (Self-Produced, 2019) ...

Article: Live Review

BAN BAM: Bianca Gannon, Carole Nelson, Meilana Gillard and RBG Trio At Crescent Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
January 29, 2024

Bianca Gannon, Carole Nelson and Meilana Gillard / RBG TrioBAN BAMCrescent Arts Centre Belfast, N. Ireland January 21, 2024 What do an Indonesian candy floss seller, a Hawaiian bird and the video game Sega Genesis all have in common? Well, in one way or another, and to different degrees, they ...

Article: Interview

Scott Flanigan: Walking On Clouds

by Ian Patterson
May 4, 2023

The challenge for any jazz musician is to find a personal voice. Acquiring the language of jazz through countless hours of listening to recordings, through practicing and gigging is not the issue. It is doing so without being shackled to another's style. When Charlie Parker was in his pomp, few saxophonists of the time ...

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners 2023

by Ian Patterson
March 25, 2023

Brilliant Corners Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland 2-11 March, 2023 One of the highlights of Belfast's music calendar, Brilliant Corners' eleventh annual shindig served up thirteen concerts over nine days. As ever, the main venue was Black Box, where audiences were treated to the best of Irish, British, European and North ...

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Origin Story At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
January 30, 2023

Origin Story Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland January 20, 2023 It is a fairly quick jaunt up the motorway from Dublin to Belfast these days and jazz musicians from The Dub are making the journey more frequently than was once the case. Part of the problem was always the ...

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Lost Bees

By Lauren Kinsella

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lost Bees; 5th Neck of the Woods; Fairy Tale; Shore; Haiku; Suspensions; Water; The Answer; In The Same Sphere.

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The Return Of The Prodigal Son

By Chris Engel

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Introduction; Us 5; Enlight; Beyond Reasoning; Bucket List; Alice in Wonderland; The Return Of The Prodigal Son.

Article: Live Review

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2022

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box Black Box Jazz Promotion Network Conference Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3, 2022 As a UNESCO City of Music and as the host of Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference (see separate article), Belfast was expected to deliver on the musical front. And ...