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Tickets go on sale this morning for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra who are to play Ireland for the first time

National Concert Hall gig on 11 March 25 A significant event for the Irish jazz scene next year is in the offing...

By11 October 2024
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Monkin’ Around, 4 in 1, Ubuntu ****

Shaken not stirred Along with Duke Ellington the music of Thelonious Monk is among the most recorded body of jazz composition anywhere by...

By10 October 2024

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On St Martin's Lane in Covent Garden recently: The Blue Note in the foreground, London Coliseum (where you see the globe) and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square (identified by the spire) in the background. Photo: marlbank

Kind of Kaidi: Track of the Week finds a shelter from the storm ever so mournfully in 'Short Stories' courtesy of pianist Finn Carter and featuring the page turning plangently satisfying saxophone of Blue Lab Beats collaborator Kaidi Akinnibi.

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