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‘Inspired by conversation with Russell Garcia, I have always wanted to perform this score, and this concert is a culmination of many years of research into this project.’
Ryan Quigley
After the sell-out success of Kind of Blue Orchestrated in May, the next jazz classic to get the RTÉ Concert Orchestra treatment is the iconic 1958 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong album Porgy and Bess.
Recreating Russell Garcia’s arrangement, award-winning jazz trumpeter Ryan Quigley has painstakingly recreated the lost score from the recording. The RTÉ CO presents the first ever concert version. Taking the title roles are Nicola Emmanuelle (‘the real deal’ – Time Out) and five-time British Jazz Awards winner Enrico Tomasso – who as a child actually knew Louis Armstrong.
On this episode of Jazz Mine you can hear tracks from artists such as Julien & John, Johnny Jake, Jacob Collier, Third World Love, The George Shearing Quintet featuring Nancy Wilson and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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On this edition I sent in the Clowns to entertain you with a colourful selection of high class Jazz, Jazz related to clowns, jokers, jesters, fools and abandoned lovers comforted by the music of Charles Mingus, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horne, Bobo Stenson, Weather Report, Sara Coleman, Geri Allen, Abbey Lincoln, Chucho Valdes and their sidemen/women.
This marks the beginning of the Dublin Guitar Duets. Charlie Mooney is one of Dublin’s up and coming Jazz guitarists. As the son of Dublin’s blues and Jazz legend Nigel Mooney Charlie has been around the scene already for quite some time. He established himself as a well-rounded guitarist deeply rooted in the tradition while continuously pushing his playing towards his own unique style. In this Episode Charlie talks about some of his favourite recordings, his approach to music and his lovely Gibson.
On this episode of Jazz Mine you can hear tracks from artists such as The Stan Getz Quartet, Beckett / Howe / Redmond, Bobby Lamb, Mongoose, Ben Sidron and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
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The Hot Box number 47 in which we have wall-to-wall female vocalists………………….
This is the first time Hot Box has gone all-female-vocal, but a really exciting programme results, with several current singers featured both from Ireland and beyond. It seems that there is an explosion of female vocalising today, and it recalls the days when all the big bands had to front with at least one female vocalist - a “canary” as they were pejoratively nicknamed. Most of them fell into obscurity. Nowadays the singer is more likely to have to make a solo career from scratch.Its still a struggle but a different kind of struggle.
On this edition I have a look at some Afro-American Saxophonists who settled and worked in Europe where they left their marks on a new generation of musicians who established Jazz on the European continent. And you can hear the music of Lucky Thompson, Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Don Byas, Johnny Griffin and their sidemen.
