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RBG Trio: RBG Trio – Excellent debut from a cross-Border improvisatory jazz machine
Belfast saxophonist Meilana Gillard and the Dublin rhythm section of Dave Redmondand Kevin Brady avoid cliches and fly without a net
Scott Flanigan Trio & Ant Law: Clouded Lines – Electrifying chemistry on a confident, forward-looking album
On his second outing, the Belfast pianist shows himself to be a composer and band leader of originality and depth
Louis Stewart and Noel Kelehan: Some Other Blues – A deep musical friendship given glorious voice
Livia label’s second offering post-reactivation is treasure of a different hue – a never-released duo recording of noted guitarist with pianist
Bog Bodies: Bog Bodies – An exhilarating, soul-nourishing album
Sean Carpio, Robert Stillman and Anders Holst’s new release explores a vast and spreading sonic frontier
Christine Tobin: Returning Weather – Starkly beautiful mediation on reconnecting with Ireland
This suite of nine songs, blending trad, folk, art song and jazz, unfolds like a narrative poem
Louis Stewart: An Irish jazz genius on a par with Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett
The jazz giant’s finest album, Out on his Own, is being reissued this week. It’s astounding
The composer rearranging Radiohead: ‘I thought, that’s a good idea to make jazz out of it’
Dutch arranger Reinout Douma and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra will present the music of Radiohead as you’ve never heard it before
Cormac McCarthy: On The Other Hand – work marks out Cork musician as rising star of jazz piano
There is a sense here of a musician who is taking risks and finding his own voice.
Neil Ó Lochlainn & Cuar: Umhaill – rugged immediate music that draws the listener close
A beguiling blend of Irish traditional music, jazz and contemporary improv
ÄTSCH: ÄTSCH III - Expansive, cinematic sound by Dublin four-piece
The improv band’s third album weaves nicely between jazz, post-rock, math metal and West African polyrhythms
Mooney’s Blues - Contemporary, authentic, self-deprecating rhythm and blues
Dubliner Nigel Mooney’s tunes offer meticulous attention to musical detail and soar above imitators and revivalists
Hermeto Pascoal: ‘Music is like the air we breathe’
The great Brazilian musician — who left a big impression on Miles Davis — is coming to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Lost Bees: A superb debut from Irish supergroup Roamer
These fine musicians are willing to take their instruments into unexplored territories
Robocobra Quartet: Living Isn’t Easy — The outer limits of anti-capitalist Irish jazz
Chris Ryan’s Belfast collective have created a proper concept album about modern anxieties