CHRISTINE TOBIN & PHIL ROBSON

THURSDAY AUGUST 13

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Christine Tobin - vocals, Phil Robson - guitar

Multi-award winning Irish vocalist and composer Christine Tobin has had a base in both New York and London since 2014. She has earned a well deserved reputation as a spellbinding interpreter and writer with originality. A musical free spirit who blurs the lines to create her own unique style that is streetwise, eclectic, romantic and radical. In 2013 she won a “Herald Angel Award” at the Edinburgh Festival for this show and in a 5***** star review, the BBC Music Magazine wrote that she had ‘struck gold ’ with her album A Thousand Kisses Deep. She also won ‘Jazz Vocalist of the Year’ at the prestigious Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2014. The concert tonight also features the wonderful playing of Phil Robson on guitar.

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RONAN & CHRIS GUILFOYLE

FRIDAY AUGUST 14

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Ronan Guilfoye - Acoustic Bass Guitar, Chris Guilfoyle - guitar

Bassist Ronan Guilfoyle and his son, guitarist Chris have been playing together for over 10 years. Ronan is one of the major figures on the Irish jazz scene while Chris is steadily becoming one of the most renowned jazz guitarists of his generation in Ireland. With a shared interest in rhythm, composition, the jazz tradition, as well as being father and son, it is no surprise that there is an almost telepathic connection between them when they play together.

 Ronan Guilfoyle is a major figure on the Irish jazz scene with an international reputation as a performer, teacher and composer. He has performed internationally as a bassist with some of the world’s leading jazz musicians, (including Dave Liebman, Brad Mehldau and Joe Lovano), recorded extensively, and been a guest lecturer at more than seventy universities, focussing on the subject of rhythm, in which he is widely regarded as a major innovator. He is Director of Jazz Studies at Dublin City University.

 Ronan has been composing for classical, jazz, and mixed jazz and classical ensembles since 1993, specialising in compositions which feature both improvised and written music. He has a large body of work that ranges from solo piano pieces, to chamber works, to orchestral compositions.

 One of the central figures of the Irish jazz scene - Trinity College Journal

Chris Guilfoyle is a guitarist, composer, bandleader, and educator currently based Dublin. After completing his BA in Jazz Performance at Newpark Music Centre, Dublin in 2010 , He went on to receive a Masters Degree in Music Performance from Lucerne University, Switzerland in 2014

Over the last 10 years Chris has toured regularly around Ireland and abroad. Since 2011, he has been a member of faculty on Newpark Music Centre’s BA in Jazz Performance program, and has since become a Jazz Lecturer at Dublin City Univeristy where he teaches guitar and ensemble studies. He is also a founding member of the Dublin Jazz Co-op, a collective of Irish jazz musicians putting on weekly gigs in the Workman's Club, Dublin.

Chris leads his own group Umbra, a critically acclaimed quintet featuring some of the most promising musicians in the country. Umbra have released 2 records in the last 2 years and have toured extensively in Ireland and Europe. In his relatively short career, he has played with some of the biggest names in jazz including Dave Liebman, Jim Black, Tom Rainey, Theo Bleckmann, Nils Wogram, Ralph Peterson, John O'Gallagher and David Binney.

STEVE ASH & KATIE COSCO PIANO DUO

SATURDAY AUGUST 15

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Katie Cosco - piano, Steve Ash - piano

New York City pianist Steve Ash is a favorite of those in the know - the ultimate sideman, and an extremely fine trio pianist as well. In his 40 years on the scene, he has appeared with Frank Wess, Jon Hendricks, Kurt Elling, Sheila Jordan, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, Eddie Harris, Warren Vache, Harry Allen, Joe Magnarelli, Annie Ross, Mel Lewis and Vernell Fournier, just to name a few.

 He has performed in many New York City jazz clubs, including:

The Blue Note, Village Vanguard, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, Smoke Jazz and Supper Club, Smalls, Mezzrow, Jazz Gallery, Iridium, Django, 55 Bar, Zinc Bar, and the 75 Club.

Steve was honored to be selected by The Kennedy Center and The U.S. State Department to tour West Africa and France as part of The Jazz Ambassadors in 2004. His touring experience also includes performing at The Bern Jazz Festival with Warren Vache’s All Stars in 2001, The Caesarea Jazz Festival in Israel with The Harry Allen Quartet in 2006, The New Mexico Jazz Festival with Jon Hendricks in 2012, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai in 2018 with The Bruce Harris Quintet.

His recordings include Steve Ash, “Once I Loved”, The Steve Ash Trio, “Everything I Love,” Warren Vache’s “ Swingtime”, the Metropolitan Bopera-House, “Still Comin’ On Up”, Barbara Lea with The Loren Schoenberg Big Band, “Black Butterfly”, The Neal Miner Sextet,  “The Evening Sound”, and Fabien Mary, “Conception”.

Steve’s piano can be heard in the movie “Evening” (2007), accompanying Claire Danes on “Time After Time” as well as on the movie’s soundtrack recording, playing a solo version of “Pretend”.

            Kate Cosco is a talented New York City based jazz pianist. Kate began studying classical piano at the age of five. She continued her formal music education at Indiana University where she received her undergraduate degree in piano and audio engineering. She later completed a master’s degree in jazz piano performance at the University of Memphis. She currently is employed as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University.

            Her professional experience ranges from jazz to pop and gospel styles. She has performed in many concert venues, casinos, hotels and clubs in Las Vegas, Chicago, Philadelphia, Memphis and Manhattan.  Her credits include playing with many well-known recording artists; retaining a notable job as traveling keyboardist with the world famous Four Tops. Others include Smokey Robinson, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Temptations, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Ben E. King, Jack Sheldon, and Billy Eckstein.  Under the direction of Alan Balter and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra she has performed many “Pops” concert events. She was the musical director and arranger of the "Tribute to the Rat Pack" show at Goldstrike Casino in Tunica, MS.

Upon moving to New York City, she performed as the keyboardist/leader for Tony and Tina’s Wedding at the Edison Ballroom on 46th St and Broadway. She has often occupied the conductor/pianist chair with Little Anthony and the Imperials. Kate has been selected numerous times in recent years to perform at the annual International Women in Jazz and Lady Got Chops festivals. She also leads jazz groups in several well-known jazz clubs in Manhattan, including the Fat Cat, Smalls, Zinc Bar, Kitano Hotel, and the Roxy Hotel. In addition to teaching and playing private events, Kate currently retains weekly residencies at the Hotel Giraffe and Robert at MAD Restaurant in Manhattan She also freelances as an independent and in-demand jazz pianist across the tri-state area. 

JED LEVY & ALVESTER GARNETT

SUNDAY AUGUST 16

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Jed Levi - saxophone, Alvester Garnett - drums

  Jed Levy and Alvester Garnett have logged a lot of musical miles together. As part of the Jed Levy Quartet they toured South America for the US State Dept./Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rhythm Road program. This group also did a 16 city tour of Mainland China as well as recording 2 CD's "Travelogue" and "The Italian Suite". Under Alvester"s name, the two performed at JALC's club in Doha, Quatar and recorded a CD, yet to be released.They also performed as a Duo at NYC 's Zinc Bar.

 Saxophonist Jed Levy has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In addition to performing and recording as a leader, he has had long standing working relationships with such jazz luminaries as Jaki Byard (a musical mentor, 3 recordings and countless performances), Don Patterson, Jack McDuff (valuable road experience), Ron McClure (2 CDs and ongoing performances), and Headhunters drummer Mike Clark (2 CD's and new projects in the works.)   He has also been fortunate to have worked with, Junior Mance, Eddie Henderson, Jack Walrath,The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Shirley Scott, Kevin Mahogany, Gene Bertoncini,Don Friedman,Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, Chico O'Farrill, Attilla Zollar, Groove Holmes, Tom Harrell, and many others. 

Levy has toured Japan, Europe, China And South America as a leader and appeared at numerous international jazz festivals as well as leading bands at such New York venues as Sweet Basil, Blue Note, Birdland, Visiones and Zinno. 

Diversity has been the key to Levy's success on the New York scene. A recent week found him moving from a concert with the Cab Calloway Orchestra to a night with Mike Clark and Charley Hunter at the Knitting Factory, to the Apollo Theater with the Temptations and the Four Tops, to Birdland with Chico O'Farill's Afro Cuban Orchestra.    In his presentations as a leader, as well as in his compositions, Levy tries to incorporate these varied musical experiences. His compositions have been recorded by such artists as the Headhunters, Don Friedman, Eddie Henderson,Reuben Wilson, Mike Wolff ,Ron McCLure and Mike Clark    Current Projects include a co-lead quartet with UK guitarist Phil Robson along with Clarence Penn, and Peter Slavov, which played the London Jazz fest and tour the UK ,Spain and Germany in 2018.This group also toured Northern California in 2019 as well as gigs in NYC and Italy.

"Joy and spirited musical communication" are what characterize the artistry of Alvester Garnett's drumming. Singers such as the living legend Abbey Lincoln and the late great Betty Carter, to instrumentalists Wynton Marsalis, James Carter, Regina Carter, and Cyrus Chestnut have all called on Mr. Garnett for the energy and fire that he brings to the bandstand. Alvester Garnett is a world-renowned 1 st call drum set percussionist who's performed on the Broadway shows After Midnight and Shuffle Along. He has performed on an extensive list of major jazz festivals worldwide including the Newport Festival, The Montreal Jazz Festival, TheNew Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, The Atlanta Jazz Festival, The Umbria Jazz Festival, Jazz in Marciac, The Detroit Jazz Festival, The Capetown Jazz Festival, and Chicago Jazz Festival. Mr. Garnett is the chair of the Jazz Committee of Local 802 NYC and serves on the NY City Nightlife Advisory Board as it's only instrumentalist musician. He can be heard extensively touring and recording with MacArthur Genius and Doris Duke Award Recipient and fellow Local 802 member/bandleader Regina Carter.