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Sam Comerford

Sam Comerford (b. 1991 Salem, MA, USA) is a musician and composer from Dublin, Ireland, living in Brussels, Belgium.

He composes for and leads the trio Thunderblender, whose critically acclaimed debut album Stillorgan (WERF records, 2020) was described by RTE Lyric FM as “the estrangement of the familiar”. Upcoming projects as a bandleader include a solo saxophone album based on the music of Irish fiddler Tommie Potts, a second album with Thunderblender, and the soundtrack of experimental horror film Hexham Heads.

Alongside his own musical activities he maintains a busy schedule touring and recording in various projects incorporating elements of jazz, improvised music, and Irish music. These include Lander & Gorik (BE) Neil Ó Loclainn’s Cuar (IE), Hendrik Lasure & warm bad (BE), Aerie (DE/IE/CH), Umbra (IE), Insufficient Funs (IE), Augusto Pirroda Septet (IT/BE), ODIL (BE/CH/FR), Mobilhome (BE), Utsav Lal & Ragas to Reels, Teh Trio (TW), Hayden Chisholm saxophone quartet (IE, 2013), and European Saxophone Ensemble (2012-13), led by Guillaume Orti.

Chunk

By Matthew Jacobson

Label: Diatribe Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Worn Key; If Not; Chunk; Tea For Two; RoJa; Steamm Thaw; And Much; The Song Is You; Cicaplast.

Insufficient Funs: Chunk

by Ian Patterson
August 20, 2026

Back for even more fun, Irish stalwarts Matthew Jacobson and Sam Comerford follow up their EP Insufficient Funs (Self Produced, 2016) with their debut album, Chunk. Insufficient Funs gigs have been intermittent in the intervening decade. Still, drummer Jacobson and saxophonist Comerford have kept their collaborative fires burning in both Ingo Hipp's AERIE and Chris Guilfoyle's ...

Piergiorgio Pirro: fold/unfold/refold

by Neri Pollastri
January 31, 2025

Pianista italiano ormai da tempo residente a Bruxelles, Piergiorgio Pirro ha iniziato con una formazione accademica (e un amore per la musica classica) presso i conservatori Giordano di Foggia e S. Cecilia di Roma, per poi diplomarsi in Piano Jazz alla scuola Bonamici di Pisa, non senza un passaggio per Siena Jazz, e concludere (per ora) ...

fold/unfold/refold

By Piergiorgio Pirro

Label: Aut Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Landero; In Do Prelude; In Do; Stretch; More Stretch; Piotr; Battimenti; Pronunciation; Lawn Shuffle; Sam And Me; On Folding; Punch.

Augusto Pirodda: The Monkey and The Monk

by Neri Pollastri
January 31, 2023

Pianista sardo da molti anni trasferitosi in Belgio, Augusto Pirodda è nel tempo stato autore, con formazioni diverse, di assai pregevoli lavori, l'ultimo dei quali è il singolare duetto con la cantante Emilia Vancini And If You Fall, You Fall. Qui lo troviamo alla guida di un settetto composto, accanto alla ritmica, da tre fiati e ...

Brilliant Corners 2022

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2022

Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...

Matthew Jacobson: Rituals Of Sound And Time

by Ian Patterson
May 19, 2020

For someone whose livelihood and lifeblood are all about rhythms, the COVID-19 lockdown, with its very different rhythms, must be extremely frustrating. Especially when, as is the case with Matthew Jacobson, renowned drummer, composer, promotor and record label manager, there is no drum kit in his Dublin apartment. “I've been doing more work on ...

Citadelic 2019

by Martin Longley
June 14, 2019

Citadelic Citadelpark Gent, Belgium May 29-June 2, 2019 Free jazz with free admission. That's the appealing concept of the five-day Citadelic festival, which presents jazz, improvisation and other adventurous sounds, from around noon until around 10pm, in a continuous schedule that roams several dips and mounts, or caves ...

West

By Umbra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: L.A.; San Francisco; Intro to Portland; Portland; Intro to Seattle; Seattle; Vancouver.