Barry Donohue

Ninety Degrees

By Tom Caraher

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Maybe; Ninety Degrees; Call The Cops!; Racecourse Waltz; Michelle; Then, Again.

Ebb And Flow

By Michael Buckley

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Strange Taste; In A Foul Mode; Golden Rod; May Story; Sea Legs; That's All Fowlkes; Chewie; Free-Ish; Sloppy in Time.

Tom Caraher: Ninety Degrees

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2025

For his debut as leader, Irish saxophonist Tom Caraher has roped in some of the country's finest jazz musicians to bring his music to life. The album clocks in around the length of an old vinyl, which, for some tastes is ideal in terms of attention span--it is easy to overegg it these days, with digital ...

Michael Buckley: Blowing Hot

by Ian Patterson
April 28, 2025

An early spring vacation to New York saw Michael Buckley and his wife take in what he describes as “the usual sights." But for the Dublin saxophonist that also meant trips to “three or four saxophone shops." Once a tenor saxophonist, always a tenor saxophonist. Buckley, in fact, started out on the flute, playing ...

Michael Buckley: Ebb And Flow

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2025

Given his world-class chops, tenor saxophonist Michael Buckley's albums have been too infrequent. This is a man who has played with George Coleman when he was still in shorts (Buckley that is), backed Jerry Lee Lewis, collaborated with Dave Liebman and Kenny Wheeler, and toured with The Mingus Big Band. His talents as a composer for ...

Look for the Silver Lining

By Stella Bass

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024

Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

By Aleka Potinga

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mociri?? Cu Trifoi ; P?n? C?nd Nu Te Iubeam ; Trece-un Noura? Pe Sus ; Song.

Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet At Bray Jazz Festival

by Ian Patterson
May 10, 2024

Zoe Rahman Quintet/Meilana Gillard Quartet Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Jazz Festival 2024 Bray, Ireland May 3, 2024 2024 should have marked Bray Jazz Festival's 25th anniversary but for those two years or more of you know what. The silver anniversary will have to wait; no matter, because each year ...

Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2024

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into the city's fluid jazz/improvised music scenes, working with Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty and Cello Ireland. Her debut album Person I Knew (Self-Produced, 2019) ...