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for those who don't know what to do on a Sunday night, those of you who have or have not tried on some jazz before and everyone else who likes great music in a small intimate venue. Here are the listings coming up in April in JJ Smyth's Pendulum Club.
Listings and Event Information April 2010
Pendulum
Live jazz every Sunday night
JJ Smyth's, Aungier Street, Dublin 2
Doors: 8:00pm
Admission: 10 euro / 8 concession unless otherwise stated
www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 4th April
Event: Pendulum- NY NOW: Pete Robbins Trans Atlantic Quartet
Info: Our audit of who’s who among emerging New York artists continues with this transnational quartet led by industrious saxophonist Pete Robbins. In a city with an embarrassment of jazz riches, he’s becoming a talisman of the new generation and is a talking point of the city’s press as a force to be reckoned with. JazzTimes described, “dark and vivid colours, compositions that shift and mutate, falling in and out of grooves, bursting into rocking squeals. This is quirky 21st-century jazz, ably performed by a forward-thinking band that transforms a cerebral sound into something visceral”. Of Robbins’ nimble alto playing, The Village Voice was reminded of “just how pretty modern jazz can be.” The band in this instance is Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Canadian drummer Kevin Brow and one of Ireland’s most creative jazz exports in bass guitarist Simon Jermyn, now firmly established in Brooklyn’s music scene since moving there last summer.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €12/10
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: www.tickets.ie
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 11th April
Event: Pendulum- Ronan Guilfoyle plays Steve Coleman
Info: Love it or loathe it, the pioneering, uncompromising music of Chicago saxophonist Steve Coleman is proving a profound influence on the shape of jazz to come, as his M-BASE philosophy (Macro - Basic Array of Structured Extemporizations) soaks down into the bedrock of jazz and its fundamental relationship with rhythm. Over a career that includes a remarkable twenty five albums as leader and several tenures at the helm of the Banff’s influential residential jazz workshop, he has shaped the rhythmic terrain that’s increasingly to the fore in the work of adventurous young players. Back in the late 80’s Ronan Guilfoyle was one such musician, and Coleman has proved an enduring influence on the leading Irish bassist and composer. Here he convenes a band well up to the demands of Coleman’s spiky tunes and their many interlocking parts, with Michael Buckley (tenor), Justin Carroll (piano), Chris Guilfoyle (guitar) and Sean Carpio (drums).
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 18th April
Event: Pendulum- Greg Lloyd Quartet
Info: A hallmark of the Dublin jazz scene in recent years has been the steady influx of musicians from other shores, among them Australian Greg Lloyd. An assured pianist in the contemporary swinging mould, he’s recently returned from extensive travels working on El Gusto, a feature documentary on the life of Algerian pianist Maurice El Medina and other elder statesmen of the chaabi music scene. Chaabi is the music that predates rai and resonates across the Mahgreb states, and its loping grooves certainly contain some jazz DNA. Joining Lloyd in putting these charming arabesques though their jazz paces are bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, with guest percussionist Eddie McGinn.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 25th April
Event: Pendulum- Cormac Kenevey Sings Cole Porter
Info: "Kenevey brings heart, spirit and warmth to everything he sings "- Jazzwise . Singer Cormac Kenevey is his own man, both as a savvy interpreter of the jazz standard, and a songwriter with a keen eye for the quirks and contradictions of the contemporary world he inhabits. Though still in his twenties, there is maturity and no short regard for the artists whom he cites as major influences like Mel Torme and Frank Sinatra. He’s also a devotee of vocalese, the art of putting lyrics to great instrumental solos. Along with pianist Johnny Taylor, bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, this Candid recording artist takes you through a set of Cole Porter classics like Every time We Say Goodbye and Night and Day, songs that for all their familiarity still have the power to lyrically and melodically enthral.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
for those who don't know what to do on a Sunday night, those of you who have or have not tried on some jazz before and everyone else who likes great music in a small intimate venue. Here are the listings coming up in April in JJ Smyth's Pendulum Club.
Listings and Event Information April 2010
Pendulum
Live jazz every Sunday night
JJ Smyth's, Aungier Street, Dublin 2
Doors: 8:00pm
Admission: 10 euro / 8 concession unless otherwise stated
www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 4th April
Event: Pendulum- NY NOW: Pete Robbins Trans Atlantic Quartet
Info: Our audit of who’s who among emerging New York artists continues with this transnational quartet led by industrious saxophonist Pete Robbins. In a city with an embarrassment of jazz riches, he’s becoming a talisman of the new generation and is a talking point of the city’s press as a force to be reckoned with. JazzTimes described, “dark and vivid colours, compositions that shift and mutate, falling in and out of grooves, bursting into rocking squeals. This is quirky 21st-century jazz, ably performed by a forward-thinking band that transforms a cerebral sound into something visceral”. Of Robbins’ nimble alto playing, The Village Voice was reminded of “just how pretty modern jazz can be.” The band in this instance is Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug, Canadian drummer Kevin Brow and one of Ireland’s most creative jazz exports in bass guitarist Simon Jermyn, now firmly established in Brooklyn’s music scene since moving there last summer.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €12/10
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: www.tickets.ie
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 11th April
Event: Pendulum- Ronan Guilfoyle plays Steve Coleman
Info: Love it or loathe it, the pioneering, uncompromising music of Chicago saxophonist Steve Coleman is proving a profound influence on the shape of jazz to come, as his M-BASE philosophy (Macro - Basic Array of Structured Extemporizations) soaks down into the bedrock of jazz and its fundamental relationship with rhythm. Over a career that includes a remarkable twenty five albums as leader and several tenures at the helm of the Banff’s influential residential jazz workshop, he has shaped the rhythmic terrain that’s increasingly to the fore in the work of adventurous young players. Back in the late 80’s Ronan Guilfoyle was one such musician, and Coleman has proved an enduring influence on the leading Irish bassist and composer. Here he convenes a band well up to the demands of Coleman’s spiky tunes and their many interlocking parts, with Michael Buckley (tenor), Justin Carroll (piano), Chris Guilfoyle (guitar) and Sean Carpio (drums).
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 18th April
Event: Pendulum- Greg Lloyd Quartet
Info: A hallmark of the Dublin jazz scene in recent years has been the steady influx of musicians from other shores, among them Australian Greg Lloyd. An assured pianist in the contemporary swinging mould, he’s recently returned from extensive travels working on El Gusto, a feature documentary on the life of Algerian pianist Maurice El Medina and other elder statesmen of the chaabi music scene. Chaabi is the music that predates rai and resonates across the Mahgreb states, and its loping grooves certainly contain some jazz DNA. Joining Lloyd in putting these charming arabesques though their jazz paces are bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, with guest percussionist Eddie McGinn.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
Date: Sunday 25th April
Event: Pendulum- Cormac Kenevey Sings Cole Porter
Info: "Kenevey brings heart, spirit and warmth to everything he sings "- Jazzwise . Singer Cormac Kenevey is his own man, both as a savvy interpreter of the jazz standard, and a songwriter with a keen eye for the quirks and contradictions of the contemporary world he inhabits. Though still in his twenties, there is maturity and no short regard for the artists whom he cites as major influences like Mel Torme and Frank Sinatra. He’s also a devotee of vocalese, the art of putting lyrics to great instrumental solos. Along with pianist Johnny Taylor, bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady, this Candid recording artist takes you through a set of Cole Porter classics like Every time We Say Goodbye and Night and Day, songs that for all their familiarity still have the power to lyrically and melodically enthral.
Time: Doors 8.00pm Stage 8.30pm
Price: €10/8
Venue: JJ Smyth’s, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2
To Book: On Door
Email: [email protected]
Website www.improvisedmusic.ie
