The week’s jazz highlightsMark Guiliana’s downtown New York comes to the Sugar Club while the Derry Jazz Festival bags Kurt Rosenwinkel, the most influential jazz guitarist of the last quartet centurySat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Joe Lovano: ‘A lot of the music today is computer driven – a numbers racket’The saxophonist is determined to pass on his wealth of old-school influencesSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Jason Rebello hooks up with Michael Buckley: this weeks Jazz highlightsPlus: Conor Guilfoyle Octet; Daniel Rorke; New Irish Jazz Orchestra; Orlando MolinaSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Linley Hamilton: Making Other Arrangements – Belfast trumpeter’s orchestral manoeuvresFri Apr 20 2018 - 05:00
New music from Francesco Turrisi: the best jazz this weekPiano trio F-JOB, the Peter Dobai Quartet, the Wax On listening club and moreSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Eduardo Niebla’s flamenco guitar sound: The best jazz music this weekPrepare for Aoife Doyle’s virtuosic interpretation of songs and some risks from Belfast pianist and organist Scott FlaniganMon Apr 09 2018 - 13:00
Dutch drummer Eric Ineke; World Piano Day: the best jazz this weekPlus: Emilie Conway brings the sounds of Brazil; David Klavins’s Una Corda pianoSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this week: Maarja Nuut graces Little MuseumWax On’s fifth instalment of listening club in Workman’s focuses on Thelonious MonkSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Bassist Barry Donohue takes on sternest of challenges with new groupMongolian throat singing, Snowpoet tour back on track and the music of Charlie Mingus is celebratedSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Brad Mehldau: After Bach review – Bigging up, not jazzing up, the great composerFri Mar 09 2018 - 05:00
Spectrum Festival: a blasted missive from the musical frontiersSubtitled ‘creative music for curious ears’, this sonic exploration features Snowpoet, Sons of Kemet, Thunderblender, Catherine Sikora & Brian Chase and Huun-Huur-TuWed Mar 07 2018 - 06:00
Jazz this week: Spectrum Festival, Brilliant Corners, Flo McSweeney and Carmel McCreaghThunderblender in Cork; Snowpoet and Spectrum Festival go nationwideSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Scott Bradlee, Seckou Keita, Snowpoet – the best jazz this weekBradlee’s Postmodern Juke Box channel has amassed nearly a billion views and his PMJ live show is selling out auditoriums around the worldSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Cory Wong, Ronan Guilfoyle, Izumi Kimura: the best jazz this weekKimura brings a combination of feral creativity and technical virtuosity to the stage that belies her calm demeanourSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this weekA birthday celebration from a true stalwart, an elegiac meditation on winter, and a celebration of the life of Maeve BrennanSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Trish Clowes: a musician at the intersection of generationsThis fresh saxophonist is the leader and composer of a quartet of equals, creating a platform for improvisation. Sounds complicated? Not to herMon Feb 05 2018 - 04:00
The best jazz this week: Trish Clowes to perform My IrisStar saxophonist, lo-fi Icelandic group ADHD, and one of Dublin’s finest improv sessionsSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Gig of the week – The Spike Cello FestivalThe second edition of Dublin’s genre-blind alternative festival is back next week to once again challenge cello orthodoxySat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Live and kicking: Why nothing compares to the live music experienceWe risk losing something fundamentally human and infinitely valuable if we allow the vital connection between musicians and audience to pass into historySat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
The best jazz this weekOrgone Accumulator prepare to blow the doors off musical orthodoxy and Kaleidoscope celebrate their 110th genre-blind salonSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz this week: Cloudmakers Five make Irish debutRising US pianist Randy Ingram teams up with bassist Drew GressSat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00
Fears for future of Cork Jazz Festival as programmer’s contract is not renewedTitle sponsor Diageo made decision, says festival chairFri Jan 19 2018 - 17:48
The best jazz this week: Carole Nelson Trio and GoGo PenguinZrazy’s Carole Nelson is in Carlow with her trio and GoGo Penguin bring their blend of piano serialism and dance music to BelfastSat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
The best jazz this week: Naomi Berrill celebrates second albumAndreas Varady teams up with David Lyttle in the northwest while Aoife Doyle plays DublinSat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
Jazz highlights of the weekGetting down at the Dirty Jazz Club, grooving in the Leeson Lounge, stirring it up in Bagots Huttton and blazing a trail in Arthur’sFri Dec 29 2017 - 05:00
Jazz highlights of the week – into the grooveDarren Beckett Trio – Clang Sayne – Conor Guilfoyle Jazz Octet – Bebop, Broadway, Bond and BeyondFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight: The Whistling Girl – bringing Dorothy Parker’s dark wit to lifeFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Willie Meighan – An AppreciationProprietor of Rollercoaster Records, the ‘happiest little record shop in the world’Mon Dec 11 2017 - 00:01
The best jazz this week: Marie Kruttli Trio, Berlin's rising starHypnotic Brass Ensemble's kids' matinee, CEO Experiment, and YurodnyFri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00
The best jazz this week: Lage Lund brings sweetly melodic guitar improvConcrete Soup: ¡NO!, Emilie Conway Quartet and Nigel MooneySat Dec 02 2017 - 04:30
Why the last big music label against streaming caved inThe ECM record label was long a holdout against streaming, with boss Manfred Eicher believing in the integrity of the "album".Sat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
The best jazz this week: BAN BAM festival highlights women artistsVibraphonist sampled by Kanye, Mulatu Astatke, graces the Sugar ClubFri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this week: ECM Weekend featuring Tim Berne & David Torn, Duo Gazzana and CyminologySwiss-born pianist Sylvie Courvoisier brings sonic explorations to the NCH and Hugh Buckley leads a Bowie tributeSat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
The best jazz gigs this week: Pat Metheny’s first Irish concertAlso: piano trio series, Miles Davis vinyl listening club and the Latin American songexploredSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
‘In five seconds my life changed. I was worse than the worst jazz snob’For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have itThu Nov 09 2017 - 05:00
Jazz Previews: Saturday, November 4th – Friday, November 10thYou may not think you like free jazz, but when you hear it live, with a group like the Instant Composer’s Pool, you get itFri Nov 03 2017 - 05:00
Jazz: The best gigs this weekMichael Wollny is the highlight at this weekend’s Guinness Cork Jazz festivalSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
Jazz Highlights – October 13th-19thJeff Ballard Duos with Kate Ellis/Stephen James Smith/Inni-K; Bowie to Buckley: a World aPärt; No Borders Quartet: GoGo PenguinFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
Marius Neset - Circle of Chimes album review: cycles, patterns, rhythms - and stellar playingMarius Neset, Circle of Chimes, ****, ACTFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
A century of love songs and Monk music: this week’s jazz highlightsThelonious Monk celebrated; Galway Jazz Festival; and serial duettist Jeff BallardFri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
All that jazz: Best gigs to see this weekKurt Rosenwinkel comes to the Sugar Club while Galway Jazz Festival gets under wayFri Sept 29 2017 - 06:00
