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NB. Livenote no longer run the International Bar Jazz Nights This is the 2011 listings: Livenote Jazz Sessions Every Tuesday & Thursday, 9pm at the International Bar, 23 Wicklow St., Dublin 2. Find on Google Maps Started in October 2009, Livenote Jazz Sessions has now become one of Dublins hottest jazz spots for emerging Irish talent. We showcase many of Ireland's notable jazz talents every Tuesday and groups led by Alex Mathias such as the Alex Mathias Perspective perform every Thursday. The performances are supported by a donation of €8 which goes directly to the musicians. Keep up to date with who's playing each week on Facebook
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Every Thursday: The Alex Mathias Perspective Alex Mathias leads his own group playing originals and standards. Listen to his original music at www.alexmathias.com * Update * Alex will be touring from March 21st - April 3rd. Subsitute groups will play at Livenote Jazz Sessions: Thursday March 24th - Derek O'Connor Quartet Thursday March 31st - Dominic Mullan Quartet

Upcoming Performances: Every Tuesday
Tues March 22nd: Just The TRIO Us Max Zaska-Guitar Kevin Higgins-Bass Fiach O Brien-Drums Just the "TRIO" us is a relatively new project set up by Max Zaska (guitar) in November 2010. The band mostly play traditional standards (and also some originals) with high quality improvisation mixed with highly arranged sections (think a modern day ahmad jamal trio). The classic "BEBOP" sound is fused with anything from funk to contemporary. The bands vibe is a fun one with the personality of the band members projecting out through the trios spontanious communication with each other and the audience. Listening pleasure and good vibes is garenteed with this trio. Dont miss it.
	Tues March 29th: The Jazz Cats Sally Cat - Vocals Bryan Mullen - Piano Gordon Purdy -Trumpet James Dunne - Bass Cathal O' Leary - Drums The Jazz Cats are a jazz / swing quintet made up of a selection of up and coming young musicians on the jazz circuit in Dublin. Featuring Sally Cat, better known as the resident singer of The LoveCats Burlesque troupe, on vocals, Bryan Mullen on piano, Gordon Purdy on Trumpet, James Dunne on bass and Cathal O' Leary on drums, the band play an impressive mix of ballad, medium and up tempo standards, as well as modern classics with a twist.
Tues April 5th: Damian Evans Trio Damian Evans - Double Bass Johnny Taylor - Piano Dominic Mullan - Drums In addition to performing and arranging for his own group he is a regular on the Irish Jazz scene with groups including The Boylan/Buckley/Evans Trio, Isotope (with Richie Buckley, Hugh Buckley, Myles Drennan and Shane O'Donovan) and the Honor Heffernan Group. He has accompanied visiting International Artists such as Terrel Stafford, Tim Warfield, Soweto Kinch and Robert Mitchell and is one of the most in demand bassists in Ireland. Damian also plays in the DIT Symphony Orchestra. He established the Galway Jazz Club and the Galway Jazz Festival and recently completed a Masters in Jazz Performance at Dublin Institute of Technology with First Class Honours. He was recently awarded the Fiosraigh Dean of Graduate Students Award from DIT to study for a PhD.
	Tues April 12th: Edel Meade’s Swoo-Beh Project Edel Meade - Vocals Chris Guilfoyle - Guitar Darragh O’Kelly - Fender Rhodes Andrew Csibi - Double Bass Tommy Gray - Drums. Just when you thought jazz singing couldn’t get any more extraordinary, Dublin-based vocalist and composer Edel Meade presents The Swoo-Beh Project, establishing herself as one of the most exciting singers to emerge in recent years on the contemporary jazz scene. Drawing on everything from free improvisation and groove music to daytime radio and songwriters like Joni Mitchell, her bold compositional statements mark a refusal to accept musical boundaries and a willingness to explore new modes of expression. Noted for her uninhibited, expressive vocals, Meade integrates her instrument fully into the soundscapes of her music, playing with different textures and colours and putting the notion of the conventional jazz singer to bed. The line-up is completed by some of Ireland’s most promising up-and-coming jazz talents: “A unique voice dripping with soul…” Ian Shaw- BBC award-winning jazz vocalist www.myspace.com/edelmeade
Past Performances
Jan 25th: Emilie Conway and The Brazilian Jazz Trio Emilie Conway - Vocals Robson Rocha - Guitar Dave Mooney - Bass Andre Antunes - Drums www.emilieconway.ie
	Feb 1st: Dominic Mullan Quartet feat. Derek O'Connor Derek O' Connor - Tenor Sax Johnny Taylor - Piano Dan Bodwell - Double Bass Dominic Mullan - Drums Dominic Mullan graduated from Newpark School of Music in 2005, gaining a Diploma in Jazz performance (Guildhall, London). He has since been working in Dublin as a full-time musician, playing regularly as a side man to notable artists including Nigel Mooney, Alex Mathias and Aoife Doyle as well as leading his own projects. He has shared the stage with many of Ireland's finest musicians including Honor Heffernan, Michael Buckley, Hugh Buckley, Richie Buckley, Phil Ware and Tommy Halferty as well as international visiting artists such as trumpeter Ryan Quigley and pianist/singer Charlie Wood. In the last year, Dominic has toured and recorded extensively and features on the up coming albums of Nigel Mooney, Suzanne Savage, Ben Prevo, Emilie Conway as well as Alex Mathias's well received debut album “Goin’ Roamin’. Joining him is one of Ireland's finest Tenor players, Derek O'Conor who currently plays in the Late Late Show House Band and performs regularly with his own group Spectrum as well as the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra.
Feb 8th: Patrick Groenland Trio Patrick Groenland - Guitar Matt Jacobson - Drums Mick Cody - Double Bass www.patrickgroenland.com Born in 1984, Patrick Groenland was a choirboy, violinist, pianist and electric guitarist before settling on nylon-string guitar and being accepted into the Undergraduate Classical music program at NUI Maynooth, Ireland. Two years later he was able to study Jazz for the first time with Pierre Van Dormael - as well as contemporary Classical composition - at the Lemmensinstituut Conservatory of Leuven, Belgium, as part of the Erasmus exchange program. Upon his return Patrick was the first NUI student to major in Jazz performance in the colleges history, with a minor in composition. By then he had performed on various stages in Belgium and Ireland, most notably in the Irish National Concert Hall stage as a leader of the classical guitar collective Diversus Guitar Ensemble Awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in 2008 to study at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, as well as a world scholarship from Berklee itself, he then embarked upon the task of integrating his classical training with contemporary improvisation. In almost two years of intense study with world class instructors such as Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller, Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Mitch Haupers, Jamey Haddad and Dave Tronzo, he has performed regularly most notably in Ryles Jazz club with the Virtuous Circle Septet. As a composer, Patrick has had much original material performed by the Diversus guitar ensemble and the Virtuous Circle septet. A Recent Berklee Graduate, in 2009 Patrick was chosen to perform in the Guitar Department Showcase Concert as well as the Super bock em stock festival in Lisbon, Portugal, and in 2010 toured with the 4 guitar-led group Joint Ventures, opening for the Peter Erskine at the 16th Dobosgala drum festival in Cegled, Hungary, as well as playing in other Hungarian venues, and in Prague and Vienna. He has performed in Boston with the Armenian virtuoso Pianist Vardan Ovsepian, Cellist Eugene Friesen, as well as numerous other student groups in Berklee, and has recently led two successful tours of the Patrick Groenland Quartet around Ireland and Dublin.
	Feb 15th: So-Young Yoon Quintet Matt Berrill (alto/clarinet) Colm O'Hara (trombone) So-Young Yoon (piano) Damian Evans (bass) Shane O'Donavan (drums) www.myspace.com/soyoungyoon So-Young Yoon was classically trained from the age of five and won several local and national piano competitions in her native country, South Korea. She studied jazz piano at the Seoul Jazz Academy, a sister school of Boston's Berklee College of Music. She moved to Ireland in 2003 and acquired a First in the BA in Jazz Performance degree course at Newpark Music Centre in Dublin. So-Young has been performing with leading jazz musicians in Dublin such as Richie Buckley, Paul Williamson, Kevin Brady, Hugh Buckley, Cormac Kenevey and Nigel Mooney and regularly invited to Dublin's longest residency "Isotope" in JJ Smyth's and Dublin City Jazz Orchestra. As a leader, she conducted a four-piece band for over a year at Powerscourt Townhouse Centre in Dublin in 2007-2008. She has also been writing and recording with her four-piece band project "Yoi-Tang(2008)." So-Young is currently teaching classical and jazz piano in the Waltons School of Music and New Park Music Centre.
Tuesday 22nd February: Matt Jacobson Quartet with special guest Alex Binder (Germany) Matt Jacobson - Drums Alex Binder - Bass Darragh O'Kelly - Keyboards Alex Mathias - Tenor Sax Matthew Jacobson (drums, compositions) was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1986. He studied at Newpark Music Centre from 2005 – 2008 before moving to Switzerland to study for his Masters in Jazz Performance at Lucerne University. He also attended the Berklee College of Music Summer Programme, Boston, USA and the School for Improvised Music Workshops, New York, USA. He has studied privately with Norbert Pfammater, Gerry Hemingway, Jim Black and Gerald Cleaver among others, as well as attending masterclasses with Steve Coleman, Tim Berne, Vijay Iyer etc. Matthew has performed all over Europe with musicians including Ronan Guilfoyle (IRE), Louis Stewart (IRE), Peter Evans (USA), Mark Feldman (USA), Evan Parker (UK), the Niels Klein 4tet (DE) and the European Jazz Orchestra (Irish representative 2008). He also leads and co-leads several bands including ReDiviDeR (IRE), ORIGAMI Quartet (JP/CH/DE/IRE) and Blowout Fracture (DE/FR/IRE). Alex Binder (bass, compositions) was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1985. He studied in the ‘Franz Liszt’ Hochschule für Musik in Weimar from 2005 – 2008 before moving to Switzerland to study at Lucerne University with teachers including Manfred Brundl, Wolfgang Zwiauer, Herbie Kopf and Rainer Tempel. Alex performs and composes regularly for bands including ORIGAMI Quartet, trio.Schmetterling and Lilabungalow. He also has production credits with German bands ‘Clueso’ and ‘Bates’.
	Tues March 1st: Linley Hamilton Quintet Linley Hamilton - Trumpet Alex Mathias - Tenor Sax Johnny Taylor - Piano Damian Evans - Double Bass Dominic Mullan - Drums Trumpeter and BBC Radio Presenter leads his quintet with high energy swing from the 50's and 60's. Click the links below to learn more about Linley. www.linleyhamilton.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/aftermidnightlinley/
Tues March 8th: Johnny Taylor Trio Johnny Taylor - Piano Dan Bodwell - Double Bass Dominic Mullan - Drums Johnny currently plays with his own trio and also as a sideman to musicians including guitarist Nigel Mooney, singer Cormac Kenevey and saxophonist Alex Mathias. He has performed with different bands in Ireland, the UK, Italy and Finland including jazz festivals in Cork and Bray, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, a tour in Helsinki and the Umbria Jazz Festival amongst other events. He recently recorded with Mooney on his second album, has made various TV and radio sessions and played a one-off gig with US guitarist Russell Malone. Johnny teaches jazz piano and theory at Walton's New School of Music and plays with various different groups and jazz musicians in Dublin and around Ireland.
	Tues March 15th: Julien Colarossi Quartet Julien Colarossi - Guitar Alex Mathias - Tenor Sax Barry Donohue - Bass Tommy Gray - Drums Debut of the jazz quartet under the guide of Julien Colarossi performing for the first time original material as well as jazz standards. The band will feature some of the finest young talents of the Irish jazz scene. The quartet will perform a selection of original material written by the different members of the band as well as performing few well known jazz standards. The listener will be dragged into a vortex of different sonorities, from the more straight ahead jazz to modal music, from aggressive funk to sweet melodies influenced by classical music. You can't miss this gig, the Julien Colarossi Quartet will astonish the audience not only for the talent of his young members, but for the memorable music journey that the listener will be drawn into. Listen to Julien at http://juliencolarossi.hostwebs.com/