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Read more: JazzTime 30th November 2025
Weekly 2-hour jazz show from Dublin presented by Dermot Rogers.
Playing tracks by Wolfgang Muthspiel, Steve Tibbetts, Joe Pass, Louis Stewart, Chet Baker and more.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 20.11.25 Beyond the Blue Horizon - A Journey into Jazz
On this edition I try to explore the magic of Jazz "Beyond the Blue Horizon", reflecting about some music that might lead us there, with contributions by Barry Guy, Clifford Jordan, Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins, Joey DeFrancesco, Chris Potter, Benny Golson, the German All Stars and others
Read more: Tales from the far Side 20.11.25 Beyond the Blue Horizon - A Journey into Jazz
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Read more: JazzTime 23rd November 2025
Weekly 2-hour jazz show from Dublin presented by Dermot Rogers. Playing tracks by Lafayette Harris Jr., Brandon Sanders, Ben WIlcox and John Rae, Chet Baker, Charles Lloyd and more.
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- Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog
- Category: The Hot Box
Read more: The Hot Box #145 - New Material from Ireland and USA
The new edition of the Hot Box consists of all new material from Ireland and the USA. An hour of the very best in jazz. The international talent is represented by tracks from a youthful band the Visions Jazz Ensemble, with music based on US college “fight songs”. Also music from Joe Lovano with the Martin Wasilewski Trio.
Read more: The Hot Box #145 - New Material from Ireland and USA
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 13.11.25 A Tribute to Jack DeJohnette
On this edition I pay tribute to the groundbreaking Jazz-timekeeper and extraordinary Jazz-Drummer Jack DeJohnette, who sadly passed away at the end of last month, thankfully his music and grooves live on for all of us who want to listen and to dance along.
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Read more: Louis Stewart & Brian Dunning – Alone Together
Remastered and Extended Edition • Livia Records • Out November 14th, 2025
Livia Records continues its remarkable restoration of the Louis Stewart catalogue with the reissue of Alone Together, a captivating live duo recording featuring Louis Stewart on guitar and Brian Dunning on flute. Originally recorded over three lunchtime concerts at Dublin’s Peacock Theatre in August 1979, the album captures two of Ireland’s most gifted musicians in perfect musical conversation — inventive, intimate, and alive with the spirit of spontaneous creation.
This new edition has been remixed and remastered from the original quarter-inch tapes, and includes two previously unreleased studio tracks, newly discovered during the digitisation process. The result is a beautifully restored album that celebrates the clarity, warmth and dynamic interplay between the guitar and flute — an inspired pairing that proved as lyrical as it was daring.
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Read more: Album Review: Nils Kavanagh – No Expectations
Nils Kavanagh – Piano
Marcus Baber – Bass
Sam Green – Drums
It is perhaps unsurprising that Sligo is now producing musicians of note, given the educational focus of the annual Jazz Project there. At a mere 21 years old Nils Kavanagh, an alumnus of the festival and summer school, and student of the exceptional-playing and always well-dressed Belfast pianist Scott Flanigan, has released a recording of introspective yet dynamic piano trio music that projects a sense of self-awareness and assuredness uncommon in a musician of his age.
Kavanagh is an Irish and Danish duel national, and here on his debut recording entitled No Expectations he presents seven of his own compositions that thematically reference notion of place and being. In his own words, he asserts that the overarching theme, which fuelled the creative drive for this release, was the question of what it means to “dwell”. Indeed, the music itself carries a quality of some sort of suspension in place. No doubt a good deal of this has come by way of the Jazz and adjacent improvised music he has absorbed through his associations in Scandinavia. Congruent with much of the Scandinavian Fjord-Jazz, the pianist describes his music in heavily narrative terms, citing a mix of mythology and geography, such as the cairn at Knocknarea, and personal touchstones such as his relationship to his Danish grandmother’s clock.
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