Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry

Music with pizza in the Liberties, a festival in the Donegal Gaeltacht

Naked Allies drums up the harmonic adventure and compositional depth of the Brooklyn scene

A slow burner that turns into a deliriously renewable energy source

You may not think you like free jazz, but when you hear it live, with a group like the Instant Composer’s Pool, you get it

Blue Sky Music and Contempoary Jazz at Arthurs, 100 world musicians at the 13th Sligo Jazz Project and the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys play the Sugar Club

Fireplace Dragon; Chick Corea & Béla Fleck; Tommy Halferty’s Lifetime and Joey Alexander

Ruba Shamshoum, Shamat, ***, Self-Released