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On this edition you can listen to "A SERENADE FOR THE CUCKOO"
and an ode to some other feathered companions in Glen Nephin, where I welcome the cuckoo home in her summer residency, welcoming this cheeky and anti-social rambler as a herald of the summer, praising its arrival with some "bird-themed" JAZZ by Claire Daly, the UMO Jazz Orchestra, Quercus, Chris Flegg, Thad Jones, Nnenna Freelon, Kris Davis, Oscar Peterson and others.
In this series of glimpses into the world of jazz guitar, Hot Box 68 finds perhaps the most important guitarist of them all - Charlie Christian. He was born in 1916 and sadly died of tuberculosis when just 25 years old, but he’d already established the amplified guitar as a permanent part of the instrumental repertoire of jazz, and gone part of the way in leading jazz out of the Swing Era and into Bebop and modern jazz.
Other prominent players in the “C” file include Larry Coryell, Steve Cardenas and Philip Catherine.
On this episode of Jazz Mine from Sean Brophy you can hear tracks from Claudio Scolari Project, Susanna Risberg Trio, Lucien Johnson, Fergus McReadie Trio, Dino Saluzzi, Duo Blanca, Mel Torme and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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On this edition you can hear a selection of Jazz Recordings praising the day from the early Morning Mist to Nightfall with music by Ahmad Jamal,Miroslav Vitous, Dianne Reeves, Chick Corea, One for All, Reid Anderson, Fred Hersch, Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and others.
On this episode of Jazz Mine from Sean Brophy you can hear tracks from Karl Clews, Luke Thomas & The Swing Cats, Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Shai Maestro, Prime Trio and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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On this edition I'ld like to guide you into some classic moments of Tenor Saxophone Madness and Magic with a selection of lengthy and immortal tracks recorded by some of the greatest Tenor Saxophonists in the history of Jazz with music by Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon and Joshua Redman.
To celebrate the release of his brand-new album ‘Bring Backs’ due for release on Friday, 23rd April 2021, Alfa Mist has announced a headline show for Whelans, Dublin 8th December 2021. Tickets will go on sale Friday, 16th April 2021 at 10AM from Tickets.ie and Ticketmaster.ie.
First teaching himself to produce beats as a schoolkid in East Ham, London, Alfa then went on to discover jazz through the sampling of hip-hop of producers like Hi-tek, Madlib and J Dilla. Delving deeper, he taught himself the piano by ear as a means to dissect these formative records’ harmonic intricacies, gradually forming his own production style of head-nodding rhythms combined with the immediacy of jazz improvisation, all tied together with a pervasive sense of melody.
