2025 in music: The five best Irish jazz albums of the year

Including releases by Simon Jermyn, Snowpoet, Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle and Nils Kavanagh

Daniel Rorke: Naked Allies review – Flare, dense interplay and moments of individual brilliance

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

Best jazz gigs to see this week

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

Sabbagh/Jermyn/Miller - Lean review: Fresh, fearless music

Trot A Mouse: Pictorial Atlas of Mammals | Album Review

New York City: is it still a Mecca for musicians on the make?

For many jazz musicians, taking a bite from the Big Apple is an essential rite of passage. Here, some of the city’s Irish players talk about their experiences