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Enemy At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
Enemy Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland May 18, 2023 Kit Downes, Petter Eldh and James Maddren have played under the unusual moniker of Enemy since 2015, with their eponymous debut released on Dave Stapleton's Edition Records in 2018. The enemy in question may well be cliché and conformity because this ...
Tom Ollendorff Trio At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
Tom Ollendorff Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland May 11, 2023 There is no crowd like an expectant crowd. Hailed by Gilad Hekselman as one of the world's finest guitarists," Tom Ollendorff certainly had some billing to live up to as he kicked off the Irish leg of an ...
Scott Flanigan: Walking On Clouds

by Ian Patterson
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 ...
Résonances at the The Vortex

by John Eyles
Résonances The Vortex Illusion London UK April 17, 2023 Résonances is an experimental event which merges live visual art with dance, musical performance and poetry. As such, it has much in common with similar live performances such as Claire Zakiewicz's series of Some Loose Assemblies at the Hundred Years Gallery, ...
Tommy Halferty, Cormac O'Brien, Greg Felton At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
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 ...
Brilliant Corners 2023

by Ian Patterson
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 ...
Noisy Women present at Café Oto, London

by John Eyles
Noisy Women Flying Free Café Oto London Sunday February 19, 2023 Barely thirteen months after the Noisy Women's debut concert at Hundred Years Gallery, London, with the total of their concerts still in single figures, there was an air of excitement and anticipation in the audience before this performance began. The original four Noisy ...
Paul Clarvis Trio At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
Paul Clarvis Trio Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland February 19, 2023 The last gig of Paul Clarvis Trio's fifteen-date UK tour to promote its debut album Freight Train (Village Life, 2022) was likely its smallest and furthest removed from bright city lights. Magy's Farm, a rural venue with a capacity of ...
New Titus Maz Album 'Subject To Change' Out Now On All Streaming Platforms

Recorded in London, guitarist Titus Maz's Subject To Change features international guests including Jason Garb, Andre Louis, Max Saidi, Will Jackson, and Antonio Gallucci. The project swerves in and out of fusion, touches many sides of contemporary jazz and takes some unexpected turns when played live. Since its release on September 2022, two of the eight ...
Origin Story At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
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 ...