TOMMY EMMANUEL & MARTIN TAYLOR

THE NEW ALBUM/TOUR

“THE COLONEL & THE GOVERNOR”

UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL, LIMERICK ON MARCH 3RD

Tickets: €25 / Conc. €22.50 / Family (4) €50

Box Office 061 331549 / www.uch.ie

www.tommyemmanuel.com

www.martintaylor.com

On Monday March 4th, world-renowned Australian “fingerstyle” acoustic guitarists Tommy Emmanuel, CGP, and Britain’s Martin Taylor, MBE, will release their highly anticipated collaboration album – “The Colonel & The Governor” on Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings. The new album coincides with the Irish and UK tour of the same name; “The Colonel & The Governor,” which comes to University Concert Hall on Sunday 3rd March.

The concept behind the acoustic duet album originated from a simple idea: find songs that Tommy and Martin love and come up with arrangements that could allow both of them to, as Tommy Emmanuel says, “fly their own our kites,” and have some fun playing together in the process.

Tommy’s relationship with Martin goes back to the early 90s when Tommy first discovered him on Australian television. “I was so amazed by his playing,” recalls Tommy. “I rang the TV station and they gave me his hotel details. I immediately rang him and invited him to play with me at a beautiful theatre in Sydney. We hit it off like brothers and musically had a wonderful chemistry.”

“Martin likes to have as much fun as I do on stage – that’s important to me. I have learned so much from Martin, as he comes from a jazz background and I come from a country and rock background. I think we both have a strong love of melody and arrangement that allows our playing to interweave effortlessly and sometimes it feels like time stands still when we are playing together. Martin once introduced me on stage as “the abominable showman” – I have always called him “The Governor”.

On the new album Martin played his signature Maestro jazz guitar, while Tommy played his 1930 Martin 017 Mahogany guitar for some of the tracks and a Godin 5th Avenue guitar for the rest. On Tommy’s solo track, “Secret Love”, he used a Maton custom EGB808. Both guitarists were miked and plugged in as well.

“It was fun and challenging to record to make,” says Tommy. “It’s honest and in your face playing. Martin swings like a member of the Basie Big Band and phrases like a pioneer of jazz. The album was skillfully and sensitively recorded and produced by Kim Person.”

February 20 – Paul Dunlea Goup

Formed in 2011 by Cork Trombonist/Composer Paul Dunlea as a creative outlet for his own composititions – The Paul Dunlea Group – utilizes some of Ireland’s finest improvising musicians to produce melodic and groove driven music fusing influences of Jazz harmony, pop, funk and R&B. The groups recently released it’s debut album ‘bi-polAr’ to critical acclaim.

March 7 – ReDiviDer and World Service Project

ReDiviDer is two-horns-no-chords quartet was established by drummer Matthew Jacobson in 2007 as a creative outlet for his compositions as well as his somewhat perverse fascination with anagrams. The band play all original compositions from Jacobson (“one of Ireland’s most exciting young talents” – The Irish Times) with influences including artists such as Charles Mingus, Jim Black, Deerhoof and Phil Ivey. The formula for putting all this together in one palindromic setting is downtown grooves with catchy riffs and collective improvs.

Award winning* punk-jazz-funk specialists WorldService Project (WSP) have erupted across the UK and Europe through 2011/12.The London based unit are described by Time Out London as “…dazzling…big things lie ahead for them” and were also dubbed as “brilliant post-prog funk” (Jazzwise) a “tight, deftly structured and grittily grooving music…” (The Guardian) and “serious skronk-jazz” (The Telegraph).

March 22 – Ian Shaw and the Phil Ware Trio

This will be a highly charged evening as superb vocalist meets top trio. Their original musical meet-up was at the Galway Jazz Festival in 2006; Phil invited Ian back to guest with the trio in Dublin in 2007, and RTÉ Lyric FM reunited them later that year for The Blue of the Night Live, broadcast from the Dublin Fringe Festival. Ian calls the Trio a ‘dream band’, and their collaboration has continued with many appearances in Ireland and the UK, including Ronnie Scott’s and Pizza Express Jazz Club in London. Phil also features on Ian’s highly acclaimed 2010 recording The Abbey Road Sessions.

April 17 – Mikkel Ploug Trio

The trio has opened for jazz legend Wayne Shorter and worked with some of the most renowned saxophonists such as Mark Turner, Loren Stillman and Bill McHenry. The repertoire is Mikkel’s original compositions who have won much recognition all over the world for their originality and strong melodic qualities. Mikkel, Sean and Jeppe are also part of a number of bands making a statement on the music scene today like the Wowos, The Unusual History Of Ether, Pete Robbins Transatlantic, Equilibrium and more.

We’re back for our sixth year!

Our ensemble-based format is a great way to learn and allows students
to apply what they have practiced at home in a practical way leading up
to a number of public performances. Our main sessions are on Tuesdays
from 7 to 9 pm with a beginners class from 6 to 7 and our junior
workshop is on Saturdays from 12 to 2.

This year’s Autumn Semester starts a bit earlier than usual on
September 4th. The good news is that this will allow four rehearsals
before workshop members get the chance to perform at the first Limerick
Jazz Festival on the weekend of September 28-30. The semester will
conclude with our Christmas performance on Wednesday 5th December.
This makes for about 14 sessions in total (there will be no class w/c
October 29 because of the mid-term break). As usual cost will be €20
per session (€10 concessions) with a maximum charge of €240 (€120).

If you have any questions please contact me or check out a lot more
information at www.limerickjazz.com/workshops/. If you would like
to take part for the first time, or if you know somebody who might wish
to get involved we will hold a number of assessment sessions before
September 4 and we will do our best to get you involved if you can’t
make the initial sessions.

Contact Details

Ed Hansom
086 6025661
limerickimprov@gmail.com
all classes at the[2] Learning Hub LImerick, Kileely