The blog is dedicated to Irish Jazz and to the fans, musicians and venues that support it. if you have any content you would like to add to the blog please get in touch.
JAZZ - A PASSION DANCE .........
and on today's edition all ye passionate Jazz cats and new the magicomers can get lost in the music of McCoy Tyner, Charles Mingus, Cassandra Wilson, Steve Turre, Hexagonal, Jason Marsalis, Billy Strayhorn and others.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 11.06.20 Jazz - a Passion Dance
On this episode of Jazz Mine from Sean Brophy you can hear tracks from Paco De Lucia, Red Callender, Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra, Joao Lencastre's Communion 3, Bob & Marcia and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
Email : with any comments, suggestions. etc. Thanks.
Read more: Jazz Mine No. 257 Saturday 6th June 2020 incl. Catherine Sikora
DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE .......
Encouraging JAZZ for a "NEW BEGINNING" ....
With encouraging music by Johnny Griffin, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Porter, Nick Finzer, Jerome Jennings, John Coltrane, Jerry Bergonzi and others.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 04.06.20 Don't get around much anymore-Jazz and a new beginning
Welcome to The Hot Box #058 in which we delve further into the alphabetical piano files with Part 2 of the File for W. There are some amazing artists in the episode.
Be sure to listen out for an interview where Marian McPartland hosts the great Mary Lou Williams on her long running radio show “Piano Jazz” on NPR in October of 1978. It is quite wonderful to hear Mary Lou Williams chat about music and list of all the names of bands and musicians she has worked with when she started out as a teenager right the way through to the modern era.
Read more: The Hot Box #058 - A to Z of Jazz Piano Part 23 - The Letter W Part 2
On this episode of Jazz Mine from Sean Brophy you can hear tracks from Miles Davis, Carol Ann Flanagan, Fuzzy Logic Ensemble, Big Spoon, Sue Rynhart with Huw Warren and more..........Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie
Email : with any comments, suggestions. etc. Thanks.
Read more: Jazz Mine No. 256 Saturday 30th May 2020 incl. the late Jimmy Cobb
On this edition you can hear a selection of contemporary modern Jazz trumpeters who shape the sound of 21st Century Jazz, artists like Tom Harrell, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jeremy Pelt, Wallace Roney, David Weiss, Brian Lynch, Sean Jones and others.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 280520 Contemporary modern Jazz Trumpet
On this edition I pay tribute to the late great alto saxophonist and Jazz innovator LEE KONITZ looking back at his extraordinary life and career.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 21.05.20 A Tribute to Lee Konitz