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Read more: Bray Jazz Festival Celebrates 25 Years with Landmark Line-Up
Bray International Jazz Festival returns over the May Bank Holiday weekend, May 1st–3rd, marking a significant milestone as the festival celebrates its 25th anniversary. Established in the millennium year, the festival has grown into one of the leading contemporary jazz weekends in the greater Dublin area, attracting over 5,000 concertgoers annually to venues across the North Wicklow town.
This year’s anniversary edition promises a particularly strong international and Irish line-up, with over 40 concerts, recitals and Jazz Trail shows taking place across the weekend.
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Read more: The Hot Box #148 - Jack DeJohnette
Hot Box 148 is going to be both sad and joyful since we now remember the extraordinary drummer Jack DeJohnette who died at the end of October aged 83. He was a native of Chicago and certainly could lay a claim to being the greatest of all jazz drummers. Immensely influential in the overall direction of drumming in jazz and, by any standards, extraordinarily versatile.
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Read more: A Celebration of Bernstein, Jazz and Song at Newry Chamber Music Piano Festival
A weekend of jazz piano and song at inaugural Newry Chamber Music Piano Festival
The acclaimed Rob Barron Trio and the award-winning vocalist Georgia Cécile join forces for a celebration of jazz and Leonard Bernstein at the inaugural Newry Chamber Music Piano Festival.
Newry Town Hall will be the venue on Saturday 7 February 2026 at 8pm for Leonard Bernstein Reimagined - the Festival's flagship jazz concert - featuring a first-half dedicated to the peerless West Side Story, and a second half drawing from Candide, On The Town, Wonderful Town, A Quiet Place, and more.
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Read more: Icons in Jazz Vol 1 Duke Ellington - A Master of Excellence and Ellegance
This podcasts celebrates the music and life of some of the greatest movers and shakers in Jazz history.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 15.01.26 It has to swing
On this edition I try to explore the sound and the meaning of SWING, or "SCHWING.... as Blue Note founder and owner Alfred Lion expressed his vision of Jazz. There is music by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Emmet Cohen, Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Charnett Moffett, Miles Davis among others.
So please lean back and "get that Swing...."
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Read more: JazzTime 18th January 2026
Weekly 2-hour jazz show from Dublin presented by Dermot Rogers.
Playing tracks by Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Frank Morgan, Sarah Hanahan, Stan Getz and more.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 08.01.26 Jazz Rays of Hope
“Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music.”
Dr. Martin Luther King
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