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Wed 7 March
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Triskel Christchurch
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8pm
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€18/16
Improvised Music Company Presents
Song Cycle
NormaWinstone and Tommy Halferty
And The Bill Carrothers Trio
Song traditions of different complexions come under the scrutiny of five exceptional musicians in this concert that features duo and trio performance with a memorable quintet finale.
Certainly England’s and arguably Europe’s finest jazz singer, Norma Winstone has saved the very best work of a four-decade career until now. Recent recordings for ECM have drawn forth something special and here she reunites with guitarist Tommy Halferty, a perfect foil for her lissome voice and forthright delivery. It’s a style all the more affecting for its absence of histrionics and melodrama, attesting to the power of time, experience and musical refinement.
With a brace of cds together, drummer Kevin Brady here reconvenes his acclaimed trio with Dublin bassist David Redmond and Michigan pianist Bill Carrothers. One of the most lyrical and individual voices in jazz today, Carrothers is a pianist who stands apart from the crowd, and his impressive back catalogue includes the elegiac Armistice and Civil War Diaries, CDs that stand as powerful statements on the human dimension in all conflicts. Distilled over many nights as rhythm section of choice for Dublin's leading pianists, Brady and Redmond play with all the nuance and dynamics that the idiom demands, alive to the invention and sophistication of one of the finest pianists in the US today.
€18/16
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Fri 16 March
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Triskel Christchurch
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8pm
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€16/12
In association with Note Productions and Goethe Institute
Arguably Europe’s leading young jazz pianist performs his debut solo shows in Ireland. With his trio [em], Wollny has been identified by Jazzwise as “ a major talent in European jazz”. Following a successful tour here with [em], these solo concerts will be greeting with much anticipation by those interested in new European jazz.
The classically trained Michael Wollny discovered jazz upon receiving a present of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. He leapt to international attention with the jarring, edgy, [em] who Stuart Nicholson described as "probably the leading piano trio in European jazz" The Guardian. He also released acclaimed duo albums on acclaimed label ACT with arguably Europe's with sax innovator Heinz Sauer and pianist Joachim Kuhn
Wollny is a natural jazz pianist. He improvises and affirms his musical roots while constantly discovering new ground at the same time. Yet his musical origin is, without a doubt, European with a clear focus on the venerable western European music history. Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, German romanticism and the French composer Olivier Messiaen have all influenced him just as much as the music from the other side of the Atlantic and new influences abound.
Wollny creates his own musical universe, a language of a kind that only a musician who grew up with Björk, Jarrett and Ligeti can create.
"Wollny is the spearhead of a new generation of European jazz musicians Jazz Magazine (France)
"Using jazz sensibilities in the most creative ways." John Fordham, The Guardian, UK
"The is the future sound of jazz The Observer
€16/12
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