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Article: Extended Analysis

Ray Charles: Genius Love Company – 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

by C. Michael Bailey
September 30, 2014

"The way these days just rip along, too fast to last, too vast, too strong..." --Jackson Browne The final recording of Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company, enjoys its tenth anniversary. It is striking to consider that it has been over ten years since the death of Ray Charles, one of the most imposing ...

News: Festival

David Sanborn And Van Morrison Headline Limerick Jazz Festival September 25-28

September 19, 2014

The Limerick Jazz Festival returns for another eagerly anticipated edition between September 25th and 28th. For its third edition the LJF has upped the stakes by bringing in some big names, not the least of which are Belfast’s legendary Van Morrison, American saxophonist David Sanborn and English saxophonist Julian Siegel. The festival opens at 8pm on ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Vocals June

by C. Michael Bailey
July 2, 2014

Andrea Balducci Bloom Schema 2012 Italian vocalist Andrea Balducci is so earnestly hip and so perfectly coiffed (he is a lawyer, after all) he is almost a metaphor: a talented metaphor. His debut recording, Bloom is equally hip and coiffed as the singer himself. With a keen ear ...

Article: Live Review

Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion at Yoshi's

by Harry S. Pariser
June 27, 2014

Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion Yoshis Oakland , CA June 15, 2014 Dedicated. Stubborn. Outspoken. Perspicacious. These are some of the descriptions which come to mind when considering the personality and legacy of legendary drummer Ginger Baker. Baker first came to prominence as a member of the rock power ...

Article: Interview

Linley Hamilton: Right On The Wavelength

by Ian Patterson
May 19, 2014

Trumpeter Linley Hamilton has been a mainstay of the Northern Irish jazz scene for well over two decades. An in-demand session musician, Hamilton has played on over a hundred recordings of various stripes, lending his burnished tone to rock and pop artists and singer-songwriters alike. But it's as a jazz musician, jazz educator, jazz radio broadcaster, ...

News: Event

Edel Meade Sings Joni Mitchell At Odessa Club, Dublin, 13 Februaray

February 6, 2014

Few artists have shaped the landscape of popular music as much as Joni Mitchell. Her poetry, insight and originality have influenced so many that contemporary songwriting without her is unimaginable. Forty-three years after the release of Mitchell's landmark album, Blue (Reprise, 1971), award-winning singer and composer Edel Meade pays tribute to the legendary singer/songwriter with an ...

Article: Record Label Profile

Lyte Records: Dancing To Different Beats

by Ian Patterson
January 22, 2014

Since its inception in 2007, Lyte Records has earned a reputation as one of the very best labels in Ireland/Northern Ireland for independent jazz artists and creative musicians of various stripes. What started out as a very small, personal concern for Lyte Records founder David Lyttle has grown into something much bigger; international recognition came Lyte ...

Album

Moondance Expanded

By Van Morrison

Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2013
Track listing: CD 1 Remaster: And It Stoned Me; Moondance; Crazy Love; Caravan; Into The Mystic; Come Running; These Dreams Of You; Brand New Day; Everyone; Glad Tidings. CD 2 Sessions, Alternates & Outtakes: Caravan (Take 4); Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out (Outtake); Into The Mystic (Take 11); Brand New Day (Take 3); Glad Tidings (Alt. Version); Come Running(Take 2); Crazy Love (Mono Mix); These Dreams Of You (Alt. Version); Moondance (Take 22); I Shall Sing (Take 7); I’ve Been Working (Early Version, Take 5).

Article: Album Review

Van Morrison: Moondance Expanded

Read "Moondance Expanded" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
November 30, 2013

Described as classic by the artist himself, Van Morrison's Moondance is one of those albums that is nothing but a sublime pleasure to rediscover it via the expanded edition. In its remastered version, the polished perfection of the original ten collection of tracks heightens a delicate density that's further illuminated by hearing the outtakes, alternate versions ...

Article: Album Review

David Redmond: Roots

by Ian Patterson
October 14, 2013

Irish bassist David Redmond is nothing if not versatile, playing in the thrilling World music outfit Yurodny and in the small jazz combos of pianist Phil Ware, drummer Kevin Brady and veteran guitarists Tommy Hafferty and Louis Stewart. Belfast's Soulman Van Morrison has also called upon Redmond's services. Across the pond, to use Irish parlance, Redmond's ...