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On this episode of Jazz Mine Sean Brophy interviews Dominic Reilly from Dublinjazz.ie you can hear tracks from Noel Kelehan Quintet, Honor Heffernan, Joey Alexander, Linley Hamilton and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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Read more: Jazz Mine No 246 Saturday 8th February 2020 incl. Noel Kelehan
FEBRUARY JAZZ from Winter Blues to Spring Feelings the soundtrack delivered by Wayne Escoffery, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Blossom Dearie, Sonny Stitt, Hank Jones, Alina Bzhezhinska Quartet, Hank Crawford, King Curtis and others.
The Sofa Sessions, Kilkenny announce an exciting Spring season of concerts, commencing Thursday 6th February, featuring national and international musicians in the atmospheric Terrace Room at Billy Byrne’s.
Musicians from the US, Japan, France, Germany and Venezuela join some of the finest Irish jazz musicians in an intimate, listener-friendly space that RTE Radio 1 has called ‘perhaps the best jazz venue in Ireland’.
The Sofa Sessions at Billy Byrne’s is thrilled to announce its Spring programme with an exciting and eclectic programme of fresh-sounding creative music, featuring some of the finest musicians on the national and international stage. Programmed by local musician and Irish Times jazz critic Cormac Larkin, the Sofa Sessions begins its fifth year of weekly concerts the next one being on Thursday February 13th, bringing high-level instrumentalists and acclaimed vocalists to the discerning Kilkenny audience.
Birth of the Cool. On Jan 21st, 1949 the great jazz trumpeter Miles Davis assembled a nonet of four brass, two saxophones and three rhythm to record four tracks with eight more to come in April 1949 and March 1950. These recordings would make jazz history creating what we now call the “Birth of the Cool” sessions. Arrangements and compositions for the nonet were provided by Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, John Carisi and Miles himself. The music fused elements of classical harmony with the jazz rhythm section and is now considered as important as Duke Ellington’s 1940’s recordings or Miles’s later masterpiece “Kind of Blue”.
On this episode of Jazz Mine you can hear tracks from Chet Baker, Bill Evans Trio, Nat Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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Read more: Jazz Mine No. 245 Saturday 1st February 2020 - WELCOMES SPRING
On this week's edition I feature baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan in a selection of his recordings with some of the greatest figures in Jazz history, meeting Lionel Hampton, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk. Paul Desmond, Astor Piazzolla, Harry Carney along this journey, a most exciting musical conversation of Gerry's baritone with the vibraphone, the tenor, the alto, the trumpet, the piano and the bandoneon. Tune in, invite a friend and take part at these extraordinary meetings with your suggestions for more.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 30.01.20 Gerry Mulligan meets......
On this episode of Jazz Mine you can hear tracks from Ted Curson, Dr. John, Harry Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, Trilok Gurto with Salif Keita & Sabine Kabongo, Claudio Roditi, Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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Read more: Jazz Mine No. 244 Saturday January 2020 incl. Chet Baker