The Shawn Scott Jones Band, fronted by Jones with bassist Johnny McCormack, drummer Eoin Redmond and guest musician Cyril Lawrence on saxophone, play JJ Smyths on 24th August 2010, 9pm for €8. The band plays a mix of rare blues songs with originals and covers. Shawn Scott Jones is a stellar blues import from Philaphelia, internationally known as a bassist having worked and recorded with some great musicians including Jamaladeen Tacuma, Pete Townsend, Jaco Pastorious, Charles Erland, Allen Holdsworth, Ginger Baker and Mike Stern. More recently, he has concentrated much of his efforts on being a master of blues, bringing the ancestral feel of music to Ireland, performing at various festivals including Dublin Soul Festival, Electric Picnic, Clifden County Blues and Bray Jazz Festival.

 

Contemporary Jazz New York in Pendulum.

 

Contemporary Jazz New York in Pendulum.

 

Belfast Drummer David Lyttle swings hard, and is on a mission to be Ireland's busiest collaborator, and now follows up recent projects involving US saxophonists Greg Osby and Jean Toussaint with an invitation to one of its finest trumpet exponents. With a bright swaggering tone and lines that dig deep into the jazz tradition, Philadelphian Terrell Stafford evokes the spirit of trumpet icons, adding his own distinctive accent to the assertive style of players across the years from Freddie Hubbard to Wynton Marsalis. From the early 90s onward, he has kept prestigious bandstand company, working with pianists McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron and Cedar Walton, performing with the Mingus Big Band and Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra, and appearing on countless CDs, four as leader. On Monday nights in his New York stomping ground, you can find him among the horns of the legendary Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In Dublin of a Saturday, he appears alongside Lyttle's regular trio with guitarist Mark McKnight and bassist Damian Evans.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Contemporary Jazz New York in Pendulum

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

'Aja' playing the music of Steely Dan. Featuring : Gerry Farrelly - Keyboards, Greg Boland - Guitar, Tommy Moore - Bass / Vocals, Alan Cunningham - Drums, Johnny Graham - Vocals, Sinead Stone - Vocals, Serge Stavilla and Mark Wilde - Saxaphones.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

“Already an exceptional talent and one to watch” is how The Irish Times recently described Overnight, the debut CD from Mark McKnight, and certainly this supple and inventive young guitarist has been serving notice that Belfast is enjoying a jazz resurgence. Since graduating from Berklee, he’s been performing and recording in good company, including Jason Rebello, Jean Toussaint, Sam Yahel, Darren Beckett, Tim Warfield and Terell Stafford, and this summer he will be on the road with The European Jazz Orchestra, the annual road show of Europe’s best emerging soloists. Before that, he arrives match fit in the middle of an eleven date tour with this potent new trio line up featuring ascendant Scottish bassist Euan Burton and one of London’s busiest young drummers James Maddren.

 

A native of South Armagh, and basing himself in Monaghan, The Ben Reel Band have just released their fourth album, ‘New Horizon’, to rave reviews and some major airplay around the world, which also has not gone unnoticed by some of the world’s biggest record companies, in particular Sony Columbia NY which has recently offered them a deal. The band has built a solid reputation around the country and further a field as one of the tightest and best live acts around. The music offers a refreshing earthy, soulful, rootsie, and rockin sound, delivered by an excellent set of musicians.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

Brian Dunning has a breathtaking command of the flute, coupled with a most personal approach to jazz improvisation and traditional music. He returns here to the original framework of one of his most successful projects, bringing together the versatile guitar playing of Sean Whelan and the infectious grooves of percussionist Robbie Harris. Twenty one years on from the original line up’s debut release Fair Play, Dunning, Whelan and Harris have released forgotten Carnival, an all acoustic affair that reboots the Puck Fair signature of Celtic inflection and jazz spontaneity for the 21st century.

 

A new conglomeration of some of the most experienced blues players around ‘Left Right & Centre’ come to the Blues Club to deliver their renditions and tribute to the music of the greats such as the great Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and all the Kings, Freddie, Albert and BB. The band comprises some of the finest of Dublin’s musicians, Ed Deane on Guitar, John Quearney on Bass and Noel Bridgeman on drums.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

'Aja' playing the music of Steely Dan. Featuring : Gerry Farrelly - Keyboards, Greg Boland - Guitar, Tommy Moore - Bass / Vocals, Alan Cunningham - Drums, Johnny Graham - Vocals, Sinead Stone - Vocals, Serge Stavilla and Mark Wilde - Saxaphones.

 

Borne of an adventurous, no holds barred jam session encounter at last year’s 12 Points Festival, Mantrum is a collaborative project between Swedish and Irish musicians, with reciprocal gigs in Dublin’s JJs and Stockholm’s Glenn Miller Club. The lingua franca is ‘non-idiomatic improvisation’ an intriguing catch all that will allow for maximum spontaneity and invention built around deformed pop hooks and deceptive grooves. Bringing the meatballs to Dublin are saxophonists Thomas Backman and Nils Berg, who memorably led his own quintet at the first 12 Points in 07. Smuggling spiceburgers to Stockholm are bassist Cormac O’Brien, drummer Shane O’Donovan and the project’s creative instigator, guitarist Shane Latimer.

 

A new conglomeration of some of the most experienced blues players around ‘Left Right & Centre’ come to the Blues Club to deliver their renditions and tribute to the music of the greats such as the great Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and all the Kings, Freddie, Albert and BB. The band comprises some of the finest of Dublin’s musicians, Ed Deane on Guitar, John Quearney on Bass and Noel Bridgeman on drums.

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

New York still exerts an irresistible gravitational pull for talented young musicians form across the globe, and throughout 2010 Pendulum will be bringing you exciting green shoots from the world’s most demanding jazz scene. We hit the ground running with a stunning quartet co-led by two of the city’s hottest prospects. Alto saxophonist Will Vinson is a young Londoner based in NYC over the last decade, and his muscular alto is finding friends in NYC, where among other projects in the front rank, he’s a Mingus Big Band regular. Norwegian born Lage Lund is a brilliant guitarist in the contemporary vein of Kurt Rosenwinkel, and is the 2004 recipient of the Thelonious Monk Prize, now arguably the world’s most prestigious award for jazz soloists. Keen jazz followers will be familiar with their rhythm section of bassist Orlando Fleming and drummer Jochen Ruckert, who’ve both previously graced Irish stages with memorable results. Collectively they lay down a marker for visits later in the year from Peter Van Huffel Group, John Escreet’s The Story, and Pete Robbins Quartet.

 

For those of you who don’t know Ben Prevo, this expatriate New Yorker has been one of the best kept secrets on the Irish music scene for the past 15 years. A guitarist and vocalist, he brings the integrity and honesty of the blues to his unique mix of blues, rock, funk, country and more. Twisting tones on a fender telecaster at the moment, his repertoire consists of a mix of covers and original tunes and songs. Described as "one of the most talented guitar players" (Justin Comiskey - Irish Times. Ben has worked with many pop, blues and rock groups including Jaco Pastorious (Weather Report), Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane), Rick Danko and Levon Helm (The Band). Always worth the visit!

 

One of the original and experienced blues bands around ‘The Business’ return to JJ’s to deliver their renditions and tribute to the music of the greats such as the great Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Leadbelly to name but a few. The band comprises some of the finest and foremost of Dublin’s musicians, the superb Pat Farrell, sporting a new 335 guitar is playing out of his skin. The band gets better and better every time I see them. Always worth it!

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.

 

The spirit of renewal is alive and well in JJs as we kick start 2010 with two brand new projects from the creative end of the musical spectrum. Lupo are singers Sarah Buechi and Lauren Kinsella, who’ve just completed their debut CD, Sessile Oak. This is a venturesome duo, drawn to taut compositions that embrace extended vocal and improv techniques and polarities of volume, pitch and timbre. With Trilogue, bassist Ronan Guilfoyle brings his broad compositional experience in the classical and jazz world to bear in an improvising chamber group with Japanese pianist Izumi Kimura and Sarah Buechi. The lines between jazz and contemporary composed music are increasingly fractured and Trilogue explore the cracks, embracing a range of textures, moods and dynamics outside the vocabulary of either genre, implying a music for the times we live in.

 

Made up of some of the most experienced blues player around ‘The Heavy Weights’ come to JJ’s to deliver their renditions and tribute to the music of the greats such as the great Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and all the Kings, Freddie, Albert and BB. The band comprises some of the finest of Dublin’s musicians, John Quearney on Bass, David Murphy on guitar, James Delaney on keyboards and Noel Bridgeman on drums.

 

One of the original and experienced blues bands around ‘The Business’ return to JJ’s to deliver their renditions and tribute to the music of the greats such as the great Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Leadbelly to name but a few. The band comprises some of the finest and foremost of Dublin’s musicians, the superb Pat Farrell, sporting a new 335 guitar is playing out of his skin. The band gets better and better every time I see them. Always worth it!

 

Dublin's long running Jazz Session.