Dave Redmond

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.

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.

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 ...

Meilana Gillard: Adventures In Sound

by Ian Patterson
June 12, 2024

To nurture a sound on one's instrument--a personal voice--that is instantly recognizable, is not necessarily easy. It can be especially hard if following in a line of historical heavy hitters. Meilana Gillard, the Ohio-raised, Northern Ireland-based tenor saxophonist has been compared to Johnny Hodges, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Lovano and Branford ...

George Colligan Quartet At Magy's Farm

by Ian Patterson
May 16, 2024

George Colligan Quartet Magy's Farm Dromara, N. Ireland May 8, 2024 Ordinarily the words George Colligan and Dromara would not belong in the same sentence. Colligan is one of the world's great modern jazz pianists. Dromara is a small village and sparsely populated townland in the County Down hills that ...

Only Leonie

April 5, 2024

Album: Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars
By Lee Meehan
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 08:07

Lee Meehan: Some Of Us Are Looking At The Stars

by Ian Patterson
February 22, 2024

Guitarist Lee Meehan has been a key player in Dublin blues and soul bands since the early 2000s. The blues proved to be a handy apprenticeship for the jazz degree Meehan would later pursue, graduating from Dublin City University in 2019. And it is to jazz that Meehan turns on his debut album as leader, a ...

BAN BAM: Bianca Gannon, Carole Nelson, Meilana Gillard and RBG Trio At Crescent Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
January 29, 2024

Bianca Gannon, Carole Nelson and Meilana Gillard / RBG TrioBAN BAMCrescent Arts Centre Belfast, N. Ireland January 21, 2024 What do an Indonesian candy floss seller, a Hawaiian bird and the video game Sega Genesis all have in common? Well, in one way or another, and to different degrees, they ...