'Scuse me while I kiss the sky: Hugh Buckley - photo: hughbuckleymusic.com - whose album Purple Dayz is to be issued this month, a release that will dovetail neatly with the first episode of new radio show Live at Scott's Jazz Club.

To begin on Radio Ulster in late-May filling a gap on the local BBC Northern Ireland radio station schedule left bereft by the loss of two weekly shows Jazz World last year and Jazz Club recently - following the death of Walter Love - the Hugh Buckley trio Purple Dayz - a play of course on Jimi Hendrix Experience 1967 classic Purple Haze in the nomenclature - are to kick off a new Live At Scott's Jazz Club series.

The recording was made at pianist/organist Scott Flanigan's weekly Friday club based in Ballyhackamore, east Belfast. The first show is to be broadcast at 6.30pm on Sunday 26th. We have reached out to the publicity team for more information. But all that is current for the meantime on the BBC website is a brief note on the series that includes mention of ''performances by some of Ireland's finest musicians'' to come. Contacted by marlbank Scott Flanigan writes by email in response:

''We’ve recorded a whole bunch of gigs over the last year and we’re just waiting on some release forms back from musicians to confirm who will and who won’t be featured, so I’m afraid I can’t give you any other information at the moment. Cormac [O'Kane - one of the behind-the-scenes organisers who run Scott's] is very much dealing with this, and has provisionally selected about ten acts but as soon as I know who they all are I’ll let you know. Should be a good addition to Radio Ulster considering there’s no jazz on there at the moment.''

Elsewhere online, according to a listing for an Arthur’s Blues & Jazz Club Dublin appearance back in February, the working trio are Dublin guitarist Buckley with Belfast player Flanigan on organ whose club the Ballyhack spot is named after - whose latest album was 2023's Clouded Lines - and Buckley's fellow Dublin scene drummer Dominic Mullan, who was on singer Stella Bass' fine Look for the Silver Lining - Mullan we had heard live at the International Bar on Wicklow Street in the Irish capital pre-Pandemic.

Audience footage of Purple Dayz playing Jimmy Webb classic 'Wichita Lineman' at Scott's last summer

Described by Arthur's as a project that zones in on an ''exploration of pop and rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s, reinterpreted within the jazz genre - factoring in music by Isley Brothers, Jimmy Webb, Labi Siffre, the Beatles and more'' Buckley's website also notes that the separate recording Purple Dayz that he himself is putting out - with a line-up of Buckley, Flanigan, drummer Shane O’Donovan and singer Eoghan Buckley guesting on a few tracks - is also due in May.

Updated on 13 May with the above sourced Scott Flanigan quotation added