Dominic Mullan

Busywork

By Charlie Moon

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Busywork; Gravy Waltz; Moonlight Dames; Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry; Hipsippy Blues; Skirts and Kidneys; Loads of Love; Here's To The Rest; St. James's Gate; Make Someone Happy; Milk and Honey; Cristo Redentor.

Organ Freeman: Busywork

by Ian Patterson
April 30, 2025

Not to be confused with the Los Angles-based organ trio of the same name--though it is hard to see how confusion will not reign--this Organ Freeman hails from Dublin, Ireland, where guitarist/vocalist Charlie Moon, organist Darragh Hennessy and drummer Dominic Mullan have held a Sunday residency at The Big Romance since 2018. For its debut album, ...

Look for the Silver Lining

By Stella Bass

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024

Stella Bass: Look For The Silver Lining

by Ian Patterson
February 7, 2024

It is an enviable trait to always look for the silver lining in troubled times. For Dublin vocalist Stella Bass, when gigs dried up during the Covid pandemic, the silver lining was the gift of time. She did not waste it, studying music production with Berklee College, Boston, and music composition & arranging with Studio Orchestrations, ...

Night Vision

By Carole Nelson

Label: Black Stairs Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Chrysalis; Dreaming of a Snake; Entomology; Night Vision; Enter Your Life; Mayfly; The Silence of Clouds; Depper Still; And Still The Birds Sing; Meditation.

Carole Nelson: Zen And The Art Of Music Making

by Ian Patterson
August 16, 2022

To what extent music is a product of nature versus nurture is impossible to qualify, but it is reasonable to assume that a musician's immediate environment plays into the music somehow. Difficult, certainly, to imagine bebop birthing anywhere other than in the hurly burly of 1940s New York, for example. For London-born, Ireland-based pianist Carole Nelson, ...

Carole Nelson Trio: Night Vision

by Ian Patterson
July 6, 2022

For good or for bad, the pandemic lockdowns spurred no end of introspective, soul-searching albums. Ireland-based English pianist Carole Nelson could have been heading that way when a 2020 residency in Mayo, with the Na Cailleach women's art collective, prompted her contemplation of the ancient peat-bog landscape, the wild sea and humans' story in place and ...

Brilliant Corners 2022

by Ian Patterson
March 31, 2022

Brilliant Corners 2022 The Black Box Belfast, N. Ireland March 4-12, 2022 Brilliant Corners is ten. Belfast's onliest jazz festival celebrated the milestone by welcoming audiences back to The Black Box after 2021's virtual edition. When Brilliant Corners was last held here before a live audience, in March 2020, Covid ...

Prim and Primal

By Adam Nolan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Expand the Tempo; The Modern Jazz Trio; Latin Jazz?; Ancient Mayan Jungle; The Magic Carpet; Kung Fu Master Vs The Ape (in a smoking area).