New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground

Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry

The best jazz concerts to go to in Ireland this week

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

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

Anna Mieke: Idle Mind review – Blue sky thinking, wide open horizons

A slow burner that turns into a deliriously renewable energy source

Jazz Previews: Saturday, November 4th – Friday, November 10th

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

The best jazz gigs to see this week

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

Best jazz gigs to see this week

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

Ruba Shamshoum - Shamat: east meets west in an impressive debut

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

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