" data-original-title="" title="">Trish Clowes, releases this live recording culled from gigs in Belfast and Galway in October 2019. Captured on Zoom recorder, Clewes has done an admirable job in producing a presentable sound on this digital-download, Bandcamp release. More importantly, in capturing for posterity one of the UK's leading jazz quartets in such fine form, MY IRIS Live! is an important document, and perhaps an overdue one in Clewes' decade-long discography.

It's not, however, MY IRIS' first live recording from Ireland. In February 2018, the quartet completed a successful, six-date Irish tour, organized by Music Network. The track "Lightning Les," from the February 9 gig at Bray's Mermaid Arts Centre, found its way onto Ninety Degrees Gravity (Basho Records, 2019)—one of the standout jazz releases of that year. Just over a year and a half after that Irish tour MY IRIS returned for two gigs in late 2019, at Belfast's Black Box and the now sadly defunct Galway Jazz Festival.

Though mostly highlighting Ninety Degrees Gravity, the recording instead opens with the unreleased "Amber," a knotty escapade with jazz-funk undertones. There are impressive early markers from Clewes, pianist