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Ronan Guilfoyle

Louis Stewart: Joyce Notes

by Ian Patterson
May 23, 2026

Few books have provoked such acclaim and disdain as Ulysses (1922), James Joyce's dense and dazzling opus. Banned in the UK, subject to an obscenity trial in the USA, scrutinized, vilified and glorified, it has inspired and baffled in equal measure. Its experimental stream-of-consciousness style--liberally laced with puns and mordant humor--has proven a literary ...

Martin Wind, Dimitri Nassar, Toninato & Thiessen, Tigran Hamasyan

by Cheryl K.
February 16, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, pianist Lucian Ban, reed player John Surman, and violist Mat Maneri; bassist Martin Wind; vocalist Maja Jaku; pianists Wajdi Cherif, Dimitri Nassar, and Tigran Hamasyan; saxophonist Ida Toninato and violist Jennifer Thiessen; and drummer Ryan Scott.Playlist John Carter “Moon Waltz" from Dance of the ...

At Swing, Two Birds

By Ronan Guilfoyle

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Diversionary Tactics; Lenniesphere; At Swing Two Birds; Two Blues; Dulcetta; Langorous: Blue Angels.

Ian Patterson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Ian Patterson
December 21, 2025

The number of albums released year upon year seems to grow exponentially, with self-released albums increasingly the norm. Much of the most interesting and courageous modern jazz is released on small, independent labels where artistic value and not commercial potential is the principal driving force. The challenge for these free spirits is to get their music ...

Ronan Guilfoyle's Bemusement Arcade: At Swing, Two Birds

by Ian Patterson
May 13, 2025

If there were Grammys for the most punning name for a jazz band, or for the most enigmatic album title, then Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle could well bag a brace. The title of the wonderfully coined Bemusement Arcade's debut album is a wordplay on Irish humorist Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (Longman Green & Co., ...

New Releases Plus A Focus On Yells At Eels And Ivo Perelman

by Bob Osborne
May 8, 2025

Trombonists kick off a show packed with new releases which are followed by a focus on the work of Yells At Eels on Ayler Records and more from the massive set of releases from Leo Records featuring Ivo Perelman.Playlist Reggie Watkins “Rivers" from Rivers (Bynk Records) 00:00 Altin Sencalar “17 West" from Unleashed (Posi-tone ...

Michael Buckley: Blowing Hot

by Ian Patterson
April 28, 2025

An early spring vacation to New York saw Michael Buckley and his wife take in what he describes as “the usual sights." But for the Dublin saxophonist that also meant trips to “three or four saxophone shops." Once a tenor saxophonist, always a tenor saxophonist. Buckley, in fact, started out on the flute, playing ...

Louis Stewart & Jim Hall: The Dublin Concert

by Ian Patterson
September 8, 2024

When Jim Hall decided to spend the 1982 Christmas holidays in Ireland, did he really think that one of the most influential jazz guitarists in history could pass through incognito? The master of modern jazz guitar who had played with Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, who was celebrated ...

Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

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) ...