Donny Mccaslin
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Rising stars and a celebration of Sarah Vaughan: This week’s best jazz gigs
- Music
- July 13, 2019, 05:00
Saturday, July 13 Rodrigo Almonte Trio Arthurs, Dublin Sometime Dublin-based Peruvian guitarist Rodrigo Almonte is studying for a masters in jazz pe(...)

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival director has ‘contract terminated’ after a year
- Music
- March 8, 2019, 11:19
The future direction of Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is in doubt after the departure of its director, Sinéad Dunphy, after just a year in the role. Du(...)

Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off
- Irish News
- October 26, 2018, 08:56
Loud enough to wake the dead – that might well be the motto for this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival which kicked off Thursday night. The streets (...)

No plans for the bank holiday and Halloween? You need to read this
- Culture
- October 25, 2018, 14:20
The final bank-holiday weekend before we give up the ghost for the year has, happily, plenty of ghostcentric events – and a whole lot more besides, ri(...)

The beat goes on: Guinness Cork Jazz Fest gets a reboot
- Music
- October 22, 2018, 05:00
In jazz’s journey towards artistic respectability in Ireland, the “good-time” image of the island’s principal jazz event hasn’t always been helpful. G(...)

Cork Guinness Jazz Festival to kick off with funeral procession
- Music
- May 14, 2018, 06:56
Jazz aficionados heading for Leeside this year are in for a novel treat when the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival kicks off with a meeting of Halloween and(...)

The best jazz gigs to see this week
- Music
- October 20, 2017, 05:00
Saturday 21st Zrazy. Baggots Hutton, Dublin, 8.30pm, €12, baggotshutton.com –Jazzy-pop (or is that poppy-jazz?) duo Zrazy - singer/flautist Maria Wal(...)

David Bowie remembered: What we’ve learned since his death
- Music
- January 10, 2017, 19:35
In the wake of David Bowie’s death, the impulse to treat Blackstar like a puzzle to be solved was understandable yet seemed to defeat the point of his(...)

Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now album review: Inspired by David Bowie
- Music
- October 27, 2016, 11:15
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin’s fiercely creative quartet chosen by David Bowie to play on Blackstar, the album that would be his swansong, after he hea(...)

The Maria Schneider Orchestra: The Thompson Fields | Album Review
- Music
- June 19, 2015, 00:00
Though a longtime New Yorker, composer Maria Schneider is still a midwesterner at heart. Her latest work for the celebrated ensemble that bears(...)