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Read more: Stella Bass Takes Flight with New Big Band Single ‘Time To Fly’
Irish jazz vocalist Stella Bass is set to release her new single Time To Fly on Friday, 28 August 2026, an upbeat original big band number that marks a new chapter in her work as both performer and producer.
Written and arranged by veteran composer and bandleader Dave Gold, Time To Fly has an unusual origin story. The song was written in 2024 following a good-natured bet with a friend who challenged Gold to write and arrange an entire big band song from scratch in just two weeks. Gold, who has more than 60 years in the music business, responded by completing it in just two days.
The resulting song draws on the classic big band sound of the 1940s and '50s and carries an appropriately uplifting message about overcoming fear and self-doubt and taking a leap of faith.
Read more: Stella Bass Takes Flight with New Big Band Single ‘Time To Fly’
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Read more: The Hot Box #156 - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
As the new movie Everybody Digs Bill Evans launches in cinemas around Ireland, The Hot Box grabs the opportunity to immerse you in Evans’ music. Whilst an hour can only provide a snapshot of the considerable output from one of jazz’s truly great innovators, it enables us to evaluate his contribution to jazz during his too-short life.
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Read more: Everybody Digs Bill Evans – New Biographical Drama Comes to Irish Cinemas
A new film exploring one of the most significant and turbulent periods in the life of legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans is coming to cinemas across Ireland this September.
*Everybody Digs Bill Evans*, directed by Grant Gee and starring Anders Danielsen Lie as Evans, will be released theatrically in Ireland and the UK on 11 September 2026.
The film takes us to New York in June 1961, when Evans had found what he considered his perfect trio alongside bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Their celebrated residency at the Village Vanguard culminated in recordings that would produce two landmark live albums, *Sunday at the Village Vanguard* and *Waltz for Debby*.
Just ten days later, LaFaro was killed in a car accident at the age of 25. Devastated by the loss of his musical soulmate, Evans withdrew from performing. *Everybody Digs Bill Evans* explores this period of grief and retreat, as Evans moves between New York and the relative safety of family life while his extraordinary musical voice continues to develop.
Read more: Everybody Digs Bill Evans – New Biographical Drama Comes to Irish Cinemas
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Read more: JazzTime 23rd August 2026
Weekly 2-hour jazz show from Dublin presented by Dermot Rogers.
Playing tracks by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Tatum, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and more.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 20.08.26 A Conversation of Trumpet and Guitar
On this week's edition I explore the musical conversation between "Brass and Frets" between Trumpet and Guitar and you can hear the musical conversations of Mary Halvorson and Ambrose Akinmusire, Jim Hall and Tom Harrell, Pat metheny and Cuong Vu, Nat Adderley and Wes Montgomery, Mark Whitfield and Nicholas Payton, Enrico Rava and Bruce Johnson and others
Read more: Tales from the far Side 20.08.26 A Conversation of Trumpet and Guitar
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Read more: JazzTime 16th August 2026
Weekly 2-hour jazz show from Dublin presented by Dermot Rogers.
Playing tracks by Kenny Burrell, Paul Dunlea, Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown, Omar Sosa, Steve Swallow and more.
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- Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 13.08.26 Pure jazz Imaginations
On this edition I get lost in "Pure Jazz Imaginations" and compiled a soundtrack to invite you to dive deeper into this magical musical moments. You can hear a small group setting of the WDR Big Band, pianist Emmett Cohen with singer Jordan Fisher, Chet Baker, Art Pepper Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Rob Barron Trio, Tom Barford, Curtis Fuller and others.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 13.08.26 Pure jazz Imaginations
