One of the bands playing the 'Jazz Is ..... Festival' in Dublin is the wonderful Mob Fandango:
Mob Fandango - Ghetto Life by RisingStars
Taken direct from the Press Release:
Jazz Is…mini-festival - presented by the Prime Collective
22-26 November in Dublin City Centre
A boutique musicfestival presented by The Prime Collective. Five days of gritty funk, smoothtones, hard-hitting jazz, acoustic instrumental and experimental improvisedmusic in Dublin’s City Centre - www.primecollectivedublin.com
Tue NOV 22 – International Bar, Wicklow St.
8pm (Suggested Donation €5) 01-6779250
Julyo'sLiMEN 8pm
Dublin based nu-jazz act LiMEN are Antonellod'Orazio on saxophone and flute and Julyo on bass and synthesizer. LiMENdescribe themselves as nu-ambient, dream pop, post-jazz, brain music, and aresure to sooth your ears.
http://soundcloud.com/limen/
Locoswing 9.45pm
Locoswing, a sassy gypsy jazz and swing band, payhomage to a bygone era. Taking their inspiration from the 20’s and 30’s, expectthis quintet to mix some old standards with some novel takes of contemporaryhits.
http://www.locoswing.ie/
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Tue NOV 22 – Sweeney’s, Dame St.
8pm €8 01-6779250
Max Zaska’sGRooVE 8pm
GRooVE is the work of Max Zaska - whose talentseven extend to spitting some rhymes when you least expect it. Expect ‘harmoniesgalore and the funkiest drums 'n bass section in Dublin’. Featuring KarenCowley, Andrew Hozier-Byrne, Sam Comerford, Kevin Higgins & Dylan Lynch.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Groove/116672828420854?sk=wall
Nature 9pm
Nature represents clashes between vocal &instrumental, human & mechanistic, pre-written & improvised. Thisgroove-jazz quartet is led by bassist Kevin Higgins, whose music fuses techno,swing, dub and funk into a brash, elemental style. Watch out for manic guitarfrom Chris Guilfoyle, trancy vocal hooks and textures from Georgia Cusack andstreet-smart beats by drummer Tommy Gray.
http://soundcloud.com/kevinhiggins/hard-time-killing-floor-blues
Superhands 10pm
What happens when you put top musicians BillBlackmore, Colm O'Hara, Shane Latimer, Darragh O'Kelly, Derek White, EddieMcGinn and Keith de Barra together on stage? Superhands, that’s what. Expectoriginals, 70's Herbie Hancock and Dave Douglas - plenty of funk and plenty ofimprovising.
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Wed NOV 23 – Crawdaddy, 35 Harcourt St. D2
8pm €5 01-6779250
TongueBundle 8pm
Tongue Bundle might just be the most exciting bandthat Dublin has yet to realise is in her midst. Thrilling to listen to, nearimpossible to categorise, the Tongues are guaranteed to open some ears.
http://www.tonguebundle.com/
Mob Fandango 9pm
This 10-piece band has been steadily rising inprofile since winning the ‘Rising Stars’ award in the Dublin City Soul Festivalin 2009. The Mob offer a unique brand of funk and soul, complete with brasssection.
http://www.mobfandango.com/
CreamyGoodness 10pm
Fresh from playing five gigs at Electric Picnicwhere they played five different sets, Creamy need little introduction. Theyhave built a solid reputation as one of the funkier bands on these isles.
http://www.myspace.com/creamygoodnessmusic
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Thu NOV 24 – International Bar,Wicklow St.
8pm (Suggested Donation €5) 01-6779250
Sandra Melo4tet 8pm
Sandra Melo is a vocalist from Minas Gerais,Brazil, and is currently finishing her studies here in Dublin - but that won’tstop her from breaking free and delivering a fiery performance of her favouriteMPB (Musica Populara Brasiliera) tunes.
http://www.myspace.com/sandrarmelo
Emilie singsElis 9.45pm
Through the lens of one of Brazil's most lovedsingers, the enigmatic Elis Regina, Emilie Conway & the Brazilian Jazz triopresent bossa nova and MPB from the country's greatest composers and lyricists:Jobim, Powell, Lins, Bosco, Buarque & more.
http://www.emilieconway.ie/
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Thu NOV 24 – SingSing (downstairs Mercantile,Dame St.)
8pm €5 01-6779250
Foluain Trio8pm
Dublin stalwarts Matt Jacobson (drums) and NeilO’Loghlen (bass) have gotten together and invited guest Parisian SaxophonistJonathan Orland. Jacobson and O’Loghlen are two of the next generation of Irishjazz musicians, while Orland is a seasoned performer across various continents.
Roller Trio 9.45pm
Roller Trio is an up and coming band from Leedsthat has recently signed to the F-IRE collective label in London. Leavingtraditional notions of a jazz trio behind, this one uses electric guitarinstead of bass, and delivers a powerful blow through the heavy tone of Tenorsaxophonist James Mainwairing.
http://rollertrio.blogspot.com/
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Fri NOV 25 – Back Loft, 7-11 St. Augustine St,Dublin 8
8pm €8 01-6779250
Leafzangsextet 8pm
Leafzang sextet takes the approach of adding cello,clarinet and sax to a guitar trio, resulting in a balance of warm acoustictones ranging from chamber ensemble to European jazz.
www.patrickgroenland.com
Bryan Quigley& Gordon Delap 8.45pm
Quigley plays the bass like few others, approachingit from the basis of pure sound rather than notes and rhythms. Delap providesthe electronic ammunition – live processing that results in an otherworldlysound world between the two.
http://www.myspace.com/bquigley2009
http://cmc.ie/composers/composer.cfm?composerID=173
Rhombus 9.20pm
Playing all originalmusic written by Dennis Wyers, Rhombus draws from Norwegian and British jazz,contemporary classical, blues and South-Indian music, moving between texturesto create colouristic and often rhythmic compositions.
www.denniswyers.ie
Paul Roe& Danny Roe 10.00pm
Everyone loves to see things kept in the family,and this is no exception – son Danny provides the percussion to his father’sethereal clarinet – Paul, who recently had an album released on Diatriberecords.
http://www.paulroe.org/
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Sat NOV 26 – Back Loft, 7-11 St. Augustine St,Dublin 8
8pm €8 01-6779250
Colm O’Harapresents Concrete Soup
Colm O’Hara is one of the best trombone playersaround - he’s been playing with all sorts of interesting musicians over thepast few years. Recently, he’s been curating a night that he dubs ‘ConcreteSoup’, an assortment of improvising musicians that O’Hara personally assemblesin one-off groupings. The result is an evening of music that will never beperformed the same way twice, but one that leaves a lasting impression.
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