Darren Beckett

All In Motion

By Dave Redmond

Label: Step By Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: All In Motion; Inner Way; Centro; Faultlines (trio); Pond Life; Windchill; Chilled Hymn; One Way Street; All In Motion (duo); Drip Dry.

At Swing, Two Birds

By Ronan Guilfoyle

Label: Livia Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Diversionary Tactics; Lenniesphere; At Swing Two Birds; Two Blues; Dulcetta; Langorous: Blue Angels.

Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars

By Lee Meehan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Boppin' For Pat; Danu; Some of us are Looking at the Stars; Make it Monk; Only Leonie; On a Misty Night; CBGB's.

Live At The Jazz Station

By St��phane Mercier

Label: Step By Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Quantum Stereo: My Ideal; Calling Colescott; Multi-Tonic Society; Belgian Flies; Blizz

Dave Redmond: All In Motion

by Ian Patterson
September 3, 2025

There is not too much down time for your average hard-working musician. Between scuffling for gigs wherever and whenever they fall, studio sessions and the inevitable teaching bag, it is often a struggle to keep all the balls in the air. Irish bassist Dave Redmond has managed better than many since the turn of the millennium. ...

Dave Redmond: The Next In Line

by Ian Patterson
September 3, 2025

Ireland probably has more good jazz bassists than at any time before but ask who the most in-demand bassist in the country is and the answer is most likely Dave Redmond. The Dubliner has been a key player on the Irish jazz scene since the early 2000s, playing with Irish guitar greats Louis Stewart and Tommy ...

Ronan Guilfoyle's Bemusement Arcade: At Swing, Two Birds

by Ian Patterson
May 13, 2025

If there were Grammys for the most punning name for a jazz band, or for the most enigmatic album title, then Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle could well bag a brace. The title of the wonderfully coined Bemusement Arcade's debut album is a wordplay on Irish humorist Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (Longman Green & Co., ...

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 ...

St��phane Mercier: Live At The Jazz Station

by Ian Patterson
April 21, 2025

A graduate of the Conservatoire Royale de Bruxelles and Berkley College of Music--where he was lead alto in Herb Pomeroy's big band--Belgian saxophonist St��phane Mercier has been leading/co-leading groups since the mid-'90s. This live album, captured from a gig at The Jazz Station, the famous Brussels venue in whose long-standing big band Mercier sits. That chair ...