This best jazz gigs in Dublin for the week aheadThe Spectrum Festival, the Nigel Mooney Quartet and Terra Firmish grace the capitalSat Mar 09 2019 - 05:00
No room for squares: 80 years of Blue Note jazzColtrane, Davis, Monk: With its roster of geniuses the New York label defined an art formSat Mar 09 2019 - 05:00
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival director has ‘contract terminated’ after a yearSinéad Dunphy’s first programme, in October 2018, was widely regarded as a successFri Mar 08 2019 - 11:19
The week’s best jazz gigs: Far-out fun in Dublin and BelfastBrilliant Corners and Spectrum festivals bring forward-looking bills to the two citiesSat Mar 02 2019 - 05:00
The Comet Is Coming: ‘We’re doing the music of the future, but backwards’The London retrofuturist trio make apocalypse party music with a jazz sting in the tailThu Feb 28 2019 - 06:00
Best jazz concerts this week: Comet is Coming, Ben Castle and Sue RynhartSignal Series kicks off; Scott Flanigan of Van Morrison’s band plays Workman’s ClubSat Feb 23 2019 - 05:00
Suzanne Savage, Armon-Jones, Charlie Moon Quintet - The best jazz gigs this weekAudiences at Craig Taborn will hear a concert that no-one has heard before, or will ever hear againSat Feb 09 2019 - 05:00
‘In jazz, the piano gets to do what guitars get to do in rock’Ahead of his Ireland gigs, Craig Taborn talks about the influences that shaped his styleThu Feb 07 2019 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs of the weekFrom punky improv by Fugazi-linked Messthetics to elder statesman Jim DohertySat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00
Ethereal sounds from Iceland: This week’s jazz highlightsEx-Múm cellist Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Matthew Berrill, Jeff Ballard and Nigel MooneySat Jan 26 2019 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this weekLegendary saxophonist Richie Buckley at Arthurs, Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio at Workman’sSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00
This week’s best jazz gigsHonor Heffernan Quartet, Street Improv and GalleriesSat Jan 05 2019 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs in Ireland this weekArthurs in Dublin will host the Dirty Jazz Club while Gay McIntyre plays Bennigans in DerrySat Dec 29 2018 - 05:00
Turkey and jam for Christmas: this week’s jazz highlightsMerry music-making with Charlie Moon, Organ Freeman, Ájo Arkestra and moreSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00
Forging some fine sounds: this week’s best jazz gigsJim Doherty Trio with Richie Buckley, Clang Sayne and Dublin Guitar NightSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
Irish jazz scene succeeds in exploring every grooveYear in Culture Review: Cool new music, top class festivals and lost record discoverySat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
A loose-limbed adventure of the avant garde: This week’s best jazz gigsCian Nugent and Sean Carpio go post-genre; Richie Buckley chooses his friends wiselySat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
Hips will shake, heads will nod, beards will be appreciatively strokedThe best jazz gigs for the coming week, including sax players Idris Ackamoor and Grace KellySat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00
Ensemble éiru make rare outing at NCH: the must-see jazz gigs this weekNew York drummer Jim Black brings his beat to Ronan Guilfoyle’s Lifecycle projectSat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
Gonzalo Del Val: Standards in Dublin review – creative vibes in dirty ol’ townWed Oct 31 2018 - 05:00
Jazzing up a 40-year-old festival: this week’s must-see jazz highlightsGuinness Cork Jazz Festival features Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham and Bowie’s sax playerSat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
The beat goes on: Guinness Cork Jazz Fest gets a rebootNew director Sinéad Murphy wants to renew the 40-year-old event without losing the funMon Oct 22 2018 - 05:00
‘I remember Gay Byrne one night referring to me simply as ‘bass’ ’Jazz composer Ronan Guilfoyle reflects on his father, his influences and session workMon Oct 15 2018 - 05:00
Maria Schneider: ‘I’m creeped out, and my music is starting to express that’The acclaimed jazz composer is fighting for artists, and against big dataSat Oct 13 2018 - 05:00
Guitarists and drummers in Dublin: This week’s must-see jazz gigsäTSCH, Jonathan Kreisberg & Nelson Veras, Gonzalo del Val and Shy MascotSat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
Snagcheol festival in Galway pushes the boundaries of jazzGig of the Week: This year’s Galway Jazz Festival goes a long way to addressing the genre’s gender imbalanceSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Jazz gigs of the week, from Izumi Kimura to Peter BrötzmannPlus: Devil’s Spine Band in Dublin and ‘Hunger Games’ composer Ólafur ArnaldsSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Love and All That Jazz: This week’s must-see jazz highlightsPlus: 12 Points Festival ends; Richie Buckley’s top-drawer talent; real Latin-flavoured jazzSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Sweeter by the dozen: 12 Points heads up this week’s jazz highlightsThe 12 Points festival brings new sounds to the Sugar Club. Plus: legendary drummer Joey Baron joins Sami Moukaddem; Michael Buckley reopens his House of HornsSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Pop-up jazz supergroup in Kilkenny: this week’s best jazz gigsChris Guilfoyle’s Superumbra. Plus: Súp, Maya Youssef and Camille O’SullivanSat Aug 11 2018 - 05:00
And the beat goes on: The week’s best jazz gigsKamasi Washington at Beatyard, Clang Sayne on tour, and Fun Size Jazz for kidsSat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00
Umbra: West review – A new generation of Irish jazz musicians comes of ageUmbra, West, ****, Self-ReleasedTue Jul 31 2018 - 07:00
Two jazz concerts to catch in Dublin this weekJapanese vocalist Akiko plays a one-off special while The Ollam are at Whelan’sMon Jul 30 2018 - 17:30
For jazz concerts to see in Ireland this weekBrazilian classics at the Workman’s Club in Dublin, while Sligo Jazz Project kicks off on TuesdaySat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Three jazz concerts to catch in Dublin this weekThe music of legend Weather Report gets covered and three up-and-coming groups show what they are made ofSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Four jazz concerts to catch this week in IrelandRenowned US keyboardist and producer Robert Glasper plays two nights, while Michael Bublé is at Croke parkSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Four jazz concerts to check out in Ireland this weekRenowned UK vocalist Norma Winstone flies for two small-scale, intimate concertsSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Six of the best jazz concerts to see in Ireland this weekStella Maris, OKO, Brian Smyth tribute, Sikoro/Smyth, Roy Ayers, Chris ‘Daddy’ DaveSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
A sound supreme: lost John Coltrane treasures rediscoveredThe great jazz musician left a gift to the world – seven tracks recorded 55 years ago, unheard until nowSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs of the week aheadFrom Susannah De Wrixon to Tommy Halferty’s Lifetime GroupSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
John Coltrane lost album discovered1963 recording features three previously unknown Coltrane compositionsFri Jun 08 2018 - 15:15
Best jazz gigs: Worship at the altars of Will Todd and Metá MetáKaleidoscope and Metropolis round out our jazz highlights for the week aheadSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Four of the best – this week’s recommended jazz eventsFrancesco Turrisi at Triskel; The Phil Ware Trio at the Workman’s Club; Julien & John at Bagots Hutton; The Paul Dunlea Quintet at ArthursSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
‘Balinese Ceremonial Music’ by Thomas Bartlett & Nico Muhly: Slow-burning beautyFri May 18 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz this week: The Savage Five perform in Belfast and DublinAlso, DCU students put on the Jazz Grad International Festival in DublinSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this weekSnowpoet, Brad Mehldau, Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, plus marking Ronan Guilfoyle’s big birthdaySat May 05 2018 - 05:00
