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Jim Doherty has been a key figure on the Irish jazz scene for the last half century. He will entertain the audience with some of his memories of those years as well as leading his own award-winning trio in a relaxing lunch-time concert. Jim Doherty (piano) is joined by Dave Fleming (bass) and Myles Drennan (drums).
Jim Doherty
Pianist
Dubliner Jim Doherty, a gigging musician since his mid-teens, decamped to London in 1960, aged 21 to study composition and orchestration.
Over the years Jim’s trio has become Ireland’s “house rhythm section”, having accompanied dozens of visiting jazz soloists, including Zoot Sims, Bobby Shew and Teddy Edwards.
So much of Jim Doherty’s work has been with his old friend (and Aosdana member) Louis Stewart, and they finally recorded their duet album Tunes in 2013. Jim formed an 18 piece big-band in the seventies, a ten piece crossover band SPON in the eighties and in 2017 a saxophone quintet called Tenor Madness.
Jim has written incidental music for eleven Abbey plays and four more at the Gate Theatre. In the mid-eighties he won an award for his score, recorded by the RTE Concert Orchestra for Shadows, an eight part series based on the monochrome photographs of the Lawrence Collection. His music for the Shannon Castles entertainments is still being performed.
Jim Doherty (81and a half) is still composing and is proud to be have been elected to Aosdána recently…
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