Performances will feature students from the Limerick Jazz Workshop Classes which run every Tuesday at the Northside Learning Hub from Sept to May.  Five ensembles will perform on the day and features students from the age of 15 upwards, It is a great entertainment for a very affordable €5, what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

• Mikkel Ploug – Guitar
• Jeppe Skovbakke – Bass
• Sean Carpio – Drums

The Mikkel Ploug trio with Sean Carpio and Jeppe Skovbakke have toured all over Europe and released three albums for spanish label Fresh Sound Records.

The trio has opened for jazzlegend 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.

“As time has passed, Ploug’s melodic gift has become clearer” – Jakob Bækgaard – All About Jazz (US

“Mikkel Ploug’s compositions are gorgeous. RVAJazz Virginia (US)

“An original voice with something to say…” – Bud Kopmann – All About Jazz (US)

“Mikkel Ploug has been slowly, but surely, building a reputation for himself, and deservedly so. His live performances speak for themselves – Jerry D’Souza – All About Jazz (US)

“Guitarist Mikkel Ploug’s star has been ascending—not only in his native Denmark, but also in various overlapping international jazz circles.” – Elliott Simon – All About Jazz (US)

“…great originality and elegance.”- Downtown Music Gallery, (US)

Aside from their very real talent and a defined sound, this group is also interesting in being an unselfconscious meeting of contemporary European and American jazz musicians which, outside the perilous world of touring soloists and pick-up bands, is a pretty rare commodity in jazz – Cormac Larkin – National Irish Tribune (IE)

Danish guitarist and composer Mikkel Ploug (b.1978) has performed all over Europe with his bands Mikkel Ploug Group and Equilibrium. He has recorded three albums for Spanish label “Fresh Sounds New Talent” and one for canadian label Songlines Recordings. Mikkel works as a sideman in Sean Carpio’s Wowos and for NYC alto player Pete Robbins Transatlantic and has appeared as an opening act for Wayne Shorter. Mikkel resides in Copenhagen.

Performed as a leader and sideman with:

Mark Turner, Loren Stillman, Bill McHenry, Pete Robbins, Jeppe Skovbakke, Joachim Badenhorst, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Rebecca Collins, Marlon Browden, Sean Carpio, Kresten Osgood, Anders Christensen, Mikkel Hess, Niels Lykkegaard, Kenny Wheeler, Eivind Opsvik, Tommy Crane, Simon Jermyn, Jakob Dinesen, Jonas Westergaard, Kevin Brow, Niels Vincentz, Flin Van Hemmen and many more….

Ian Shaw – voice

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.

Twice winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist, and with over a dozen highly acclaimed albums to his name, Ian Shaw has been described as one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene. Alongside his own projects, he is much in demand as the featured soloist with big bands and orchestras, both in the UK and internationally, in addition to his long-term pairings with the likes of Guy Barker, Liane Carroll and Claire Martin.

“Praised far and wide as the greatest male jazz singer Britain has to offer” Jazz Times

Celebrating their tenth year together, The Phil Ware Trio are renowned both for their driving swing and for their sparse, atmospheric approach to down-tempo material. First-call for many visiting artists, they have toured extensively in their own right and twice been chosen to represent Ireland at the Eurojazz festival in Mexico City.

“It’s no surprise that they’re one of the hardest-working jazz trios in the country, with an appetite for exploration that was matched pound for pound by an insistent connection to their listeners” The Irish Times

Ian Shaw

“Best Jazz Vocalist“ at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2007 and 2004, and this year nominated in the Best UK Vocalist category at the JazzFM awards, Ian Shaw has already amassed a number of highly acclaimed intentionally released albums and is a popular performer both in the UK and the US. He has been cited, along with Mark Murphy and Kurt Elling, as one of the world’s finest male jazz vocalists.

Shaw’s current release, his 13th studio album, A Ghost In Every Bar, The Lyrics Of Fran Landesman (Splash Point Records), has been exceptionally well received in Europe and America (see reviews). The recording, made in April 2012, fulfilled a long-standing promise made to the late poet/lyricist Landesman to make an album devoted to her work. Ian was one of her favourite singers and his past discography includes many of her songs.

In the summer of 2010 Shaw joined an historical legacy of artists and recorded his first Abbey Road studio album. Using a personal blueprint connection in the shape of legendary bassist Peter Ind, Shaw and his young guitarist collaborator, David Preston, assembled a stellar, international, cross-generational band resulting in a recording that led Jamie Cullum to say “the incomparable Ian Shaw… absolutely fantastic“ and reflects Shaw’s position as one of the world’s leading jazz singers.

His acclaimed 2006 album Drawn To All Things – The Songs Of Joni Mitchell, saw him “Praised far and wide as the single greatest male jazz vocalist Britain has to offer“ by Jazz Times. This was followed in 2008 by the autobiographical collection co-penned with David Preston, Lifejacket, also on Linn Records. In 2009 Shaw recorded his long-awaited solo album, Somewhere Towards Love (Splash Point Records) which continues to represent beautifully his increasingly popular solo shows.

Shaw’s career in performance began unusually for a jazz musician on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand. Shaw was spotted by Dave Illic, jazz critic for City Limits and was described as “the voice of the decade“.

During the next few years Shaw moved from the singer-pianist format to working with his new band to an eventual move into jazz. Shaw has toured extensively in the UK – regular venues include the Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Blackheath Concert Halls, Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Soho Jazz Club, The Vortex, the Jazz Café and The Barbican. Ian has played at all of the major jazz festivals in the UK including Cork, Brecon, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh (where he was nominated for a Perrier Award), Grimsby, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Scarborough, Swanage and St. Ives.

In Europe he has proved popular in France, Germany and Italy with numerous live appearances. He has also performed regularly in the States including Jazz at the Lincoln Center (New York), Cine Grill (Hollywood), the Fairmont (Chicago), The Nest (Washington DC), Fez Club (New York), the Ellington Church (New York), the Pasadena Auditorium (California), the Miami Film and Music Festival and the Arizona Jazz Party. He has also performed at the Hanoi Opera House and Ho Chi Minh City Opera in Vietnam. More recently Ian has become a frequent visitor to Canada, as result of frequent play on the 24 hour JazzFM91 radio station where his Ronnie Scott’s Radio Show airs weekly.

His appearances on TV include guest slots with Jools Holland, Top of the Pops, The Jack Dee Show, Christmas Night with the Stars (BBC), Channel 4’s The Happening, TVAM, BBC Breakfast Show, BBC 2’s A Night of Love, BBC 2’s Jazz at the 606 alongside numerous appearances on the Performance and Artsworld channels. More recently Shaw featured in the prestigious live session slot of BBC 2’s The Review Show. Channel 4 filmed him with Liane Carroll for their series, Random Acts.

Collaborators over the years have been many and include Quincy Jones, Abudullah Ibrahim, Guy Barker, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Iain Ballamy, Mornington Lockett, Barb Jungr, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Cedar Walton, Joe Lovano and Joe Beck. Shaw’s ongoing and highly popular collaboration is a celebrated duet show with Claire Martin, the UK’s finest female jazz singer (he also guested on her 2002 album Too Darn Hot! (Linn AKD 243)). Together they have toured the world in an intimate duo setting with Shaw playing piano and with the BBC Big Band. They co-hosted the 2004 BBC Jazz Awards.

One of his recent songs, the self-penned Somewhere Towards Love, has been a radio favourite, chosen by both style icon, Molly Parkin, on her Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4) and by fellow performer Julian Clary on the Jools Holland Show (BBC Radio 2). Shaw’s 2008 album Lifejacket cemented his reputation as a fine song-writer as well as a great jazz singer.

Shaw was for some time the presenter on BBC Big Band Special on BBC Radio 2 and is a regular on BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4, BBC Radio London and the recently revamped JazzFM where he guest presented their legendary Dinner Jazz show alongside the likes of Bruce Forsyth. In October 2012 Shaw presented a show called Miles Symphonic live from the Tower Ballroom Blackpool for Radio 3. Ian currently presents The Ronnie Scott’s Radio Show, broadcast on JazzFM91 Canada, which started life on JazzFM UK. Shaw hosted the inaugural JazzFM Jazz Awards in January this year.

In 2011 Shaw joined Rory Bremner on a UK stand-up tour where he firmly returned to his roots by performing a mix of comedy and original songs. The tour picked up again in the Spring of 2012 starting with the Glasgow Comedy Festival and playing dates nationwide through the summer.

A Bit of Mouthful – An Evening With Ian Shaw, a delicious confectionery of witty songs and stories hit the Edinburgh Festival in August 2012 to great acclaim for a month’s run at the famous Stand comedy club.

ReDiviDeR

• Nick Roth – Saxophone
• Colm O’Hara – Trombone
• Derek Whyte – Bass
• Matt Jacobsen – Drums

This 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. While he failed to find such avid fellow followers of wordplays, he did find and enlist the help of creative and rhythmic specialists Derek Whyte (bass) and Nick Roth (alto sax), with trombonist Colm O’Hara arriving a little later. 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.

They have performed at many of Irelandʼs most prestigious festivals and events including the Galway Jazz Festival 2010 where they supported Chris Potterʼs Underground; representing Ireland at the 12Points! Festival 2010; and the Cork Jazz Festival 2011, where they were also awarded the accolade of ʻBest Young Irish Bandʼ. The group was also a recent recipient of the Music Network Recording Scheme Award 2012, to release their second album, featuring four top UK Musicians and to be recorded in Dublin in February 2013.

Since the release of their debut album ʻNever odd or eveNʼ on Diatribe Records, Irelandʼs leading Jazz and Experimental music record label in November 2011, the band have been busy performing new material both in Ireland and the UK. This yearʼs performance highlights so far include a short UK Tour with London band WSP including a gig in Londonʼs Vortex Jazz Club in January, as well as sets at the Bray Jazz Festival in May; the first ever Match&Fuse Festival in Dalstonʼs Gillett Sq in London in June; and the first ever DownWithJazz Festival in Dublinʼs Meeting House Sq in August. ReDiviDeR also featured on BBC Radio 3ʼs Somethinʼ Else show in July with a broadcast of their entire set and an interview with Jacobson from the previous monthʼs Match&Fuse Festival.

WorldService Project

• Dave Morecroft – keys
• Tim Ower – saxophones
• Raphael Clarkson – trombone
• Conor Chaplin – bass
• Neil Blandford – drums

Award winning* punk-jazz-funk specialists WorldService Project (WSP) have erupted across the UK and Europe through 2011/12. Alongside their innovative Match&Fuse programme they were chosen for the 12 Points+ European touring scheme, have featured on national radio stations in the UK, Portugal, Germany and Denmark and their intense live sound has taken numerous European cities and festivals by storm including the London Jazz Festival, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, 12 Points Festival (Porto), Brecon, Marsden, Swanage, Halesworth and Margate Jazz Festivals, Europe Day (Dublin), WDR Funkhaus (Cologne), and Match&Fuse double-headers taking in Italy, Norway, Germany, France and Ireland.

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).

Led by pianist/composer Dave Morecroft, WSP’s music speaks through dark, playful building passages, winding through dissonance, complex rhythmic manipulation and downright silliness. Other times it draws on the language of 20th Century Classical composers layered over boisterous grooves more commonly found in albums by heavy rock artists.
In essence, imagine a (loud!) four-way cage match between Frank Zappa, Loose Tubes, Stravinsky and Meshuggah.
The result is high-octane experimental but accessible music with a smile on its face.

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.”

Paul Dunlea – Trombone

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.

“Ireland’s jazz scene … (is) producing players and writers of undoubted talent. On the evidence of bi-polAr, trombonist Paul Dunlea can be added to that growing roster, especially for lovers of the funkier end of the jazz spectrum.” Bruce, Lindsay, All About Jazz

Paul started playing the trombone at the age of 11 with the Barrack Street band, a local concert band in Cork. Then joined the Defence Forces School of Music where he has have been working as principle trombone player in the Band of the First Southern Brigade, Cork for the past 12 years. During this time he has toured with the band to Canada, England, Belgium, and France.

Paul has become one of the most in demand trombone players on the Irish scene, playing and recording with big bands and jazz combos including the Cork City Jazz Band, Dublin City Jazz Orchestra, Hothouse Bigband (Dublin),Opus Pocus Big Band Waterford and The Bones of Cork. Sharing the stage with the likes of Bobby Watson, Rick Margitza, John Riley, Marshall Gilkes, Kyle Eastwood and Anders Bercrantz. Paul has also performed and toured with original artists including Fred, The Hard Ground, Avatar, The Frank and Walters and Mick Flannery.

Aside from the performing Paul is also a busy writer/arranger having recently written and arranged for Mick Flannery’s Number 1 album “Red To Blue” on EMI Records. One of Paul’s own compositions “Slightly” will also feature on an album soon to be released by the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra.

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.

22nd November

Dolans Warehouse

“Perfection. 360 degrees of soul and science in one human being. My kind of musician.”
– Quincy Jones

“Kenny Werner is a total musician. He feeds my heart and my brain and pushes me into fresh territories. I am grateful that our agendas can coincide that often.
P.S. He also wrote a book on how to “liberate” one’s own creativity!”
– Toots Thielemans

Ronan Guilfoyle is a major figure on the Irish jazz scene and has developed an international reputation as a performer, teacher and composer. He began his career with Louis Stewart’s group in the early 1980′s and studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1986 and 1987 where his teachers included John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, and Steve Coleman.

Performing on the acoustic bass guitar since the early 1980s, Ronan is now one of the instrument’s leading exponents, and is now much in demand as a bassist, both in his native Ireland and on the international jazz scene. Among the people he has performed with are Dave Liebman, Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, Kenny Wheeler, Keith Copeland, Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Jim McNeely, Sonny Fortune, Andrea Keller, Andy Laster, Emily Remler, Simon Nabatov, Richie Beirach, and Tom Rainey. He has also been leading his own groups since the mid 1980s, and his groups have toured extensively in Europe, Asia, and North America. He has recorded extensively both as a sideman and as a leader and his output includes the award winning “Devsirme” in 1997.

Dolans Upstairs

Nine Tales Of The Pendulum Album Launch Tour

David Binney (US )– Alto Saxophone

Josh Arcoleo (UK) – Tenor Saxophone

Ivo Neame – (UK) Piano

James Maddren (UK) – Drums

Mick Coady (Irl) – Bass

Mick Coady’s Synergy brings together five truly great young jazz musicians from the UK, Ireland and the US and features renowned composer and alto saxophonist David Binney. The concert is part of a UK/Ireland tour for the release of Nine Tales Of The Pendulum, Coady’s debut album, coming out this autumn on independent record label Jellymould Jazz.

Although tightly rooted in the jazz tradition Mick Coady’s original work reveals another side of his musical character, one that draws its inspiration from a wide diversity of influences. The rich harmony and angular melodies prominent in his compositions are a result of his long immersion in the jazz idiom, but the epic song forms and intense grooves that underly many of his pieces are evidence of an earlier exposure to rock and folk, and more recently African and Brazilian traditional music forms.

Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific young jazz musicians on the scene today. Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was recently singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “young players who have created an alternative jazz scene… all of whom are playing adventurous, original music.”

Born into a musical family in 1989 Josh Arcoleo was lucky enough to start saxophone lessons with the legendary Pee Wee Ellis when he was 13. At 18 he gained a place on the renowned jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music – where he graduated with a 1st class degree in 2011, that year also winning a Yamaha Parliamentary Jazz Scholarship and the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize. The latter being a recording contract with Edition Records. Josh’s debut album ‘Beginnings’ was released in February 2012 to widespread critical acclaim. He has also received awards from the EMI Music Sound Foundation and MBF Young Talent, and was nominated for a 2012 London Jazz Award.

Ivo Neame is a distinctive jazz musician in that he is equally at home on saxophone and piano. This double life has seen him make notable contributions to some of the finest jazz groups in the vanguard of the ever-burgeoning UK jazz scene. The Ivo Neame Quintet has performed to enthusiastic audiences up and down the country and beyond, plying the general public with freshly decanted musical offerings. Ivo’s music is a living, breathing contradiction – complex yet accesible, considered yet spontaneous, traditional yet forward-thinking.

Ivo studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he grappled with the hothouse music environment with varying degrees of success. Since leaving the Academy in 2003 he has reconnected more deeply with music, and has gone on to perform and record with highly esteemed musicians at home and abroad such as David Binney, Seamus Blake and Hermeto Pascoal.

As a bandleader he has recorded two critically acclaimed albums and has toured in the UK and abroad with the Ivo Neame Quintet. His Edition Records release ‘Caught in the Light of Day’ was rated the 4th best jazz album of 2010 by MOJO magazine and received 4 star reviews from the Guardian and the Irish Times among others. Forthcoming projects include a new Ivo Neame Octet album to be released on Edition  Records in October 2012. This album will feature regular cohorts Jasper Hoiby and Jim Hart and new collaborators such as Shabaka Hutchings and Tori Freestone.

Recently he has been lucky enough to receive various awards including a MOBO for best jazz act (Kairos Quartet), Album of the year 2010 in both Jazzwise and MOJO magazines (Phronesis) and winner of the Jazz category for the London Awards for Art and Performance 2012.

First up at 7pm is musician and broadcaster Chas Meredith AKA Rock Fox of the Merrion Gates. Chas will bring you through some of his thoughts on the history of jazz, with particular reference to our 7.45 screening of the movie ‘Round Midnight (1986) directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film’s protagonist, Dale Turner, is an amalgam of the characters of a number of African American musicians who spent extended stays in Europe. What makes the movie remarkable is that Dale Turner is played by one of those musicians, saxophonist Dexter Gordon, who received an Oscar nomination for his first ever acting role.

Just in case you’re wavering, Herbie Hancock won the best original score Oscar for his contribution and Martin Scorcese plays a cameo as Dale’s manager. We’ve even found the trailer for you!

10pm sees live music from Honor Heffernan and Phil Ware. Honor Heffernan has been performing as both a singer and actress for over 30 years now. Her Jazz singing career began in 1983 when she was invited by Songwriter, TV and Radio presenter Shay Healy to join with the Jim Doherty Trio in an experimental programme, where musicians from different backgrounds performed together. The experience lead to long associations with renowned jazz musicians Jim Doherty, Noel Kelehan and Louis Stewart, and many more of Irelands leading jazz musicians.

Check out Honor performing Joni Mitchell’s “Be Cool” at her 2009 Limerick gig.