Ronan Guilfoyle: Buy

A unique recording of a night in Dublin - a night of free-wheeling improvisation by three musicians - Julian Arguelles, Ronan Guilfoyle and Jim Black - at the top of their game.

This is jazz as 'the sound of surprise' - virtuosic, vibrant and created on the spot, in front of an appreciative audience in a classic jazz club setting. "All of these were lengthy improvisations, full of surprise, textural variety, beautifully nuanced dynamics, and an uncanny collective sense of the dramatic arch of each performance.

When the trio settled on a composed piece, the thematic material was treated with the utmost freedom, in effect becoming poles around which they spun widening threads of improvisation before returning to the original reference point." -- The Irish Times

This recording, performed by internationally renowned jazz musicians, features adventurous new arrangements which explore new possibilities and angles of these classic Parker pieces.

"This album is a triumph for the chemistry within the quartet." -- Irish Times, April 20 2000

"Masterful playing and ingenious reworking of some classic tunes." -- Journal of Music in Ireland, Nov/Dec 2000

Julian Arguelles - Saxophones
Rick Peckham - Guitars
Ronan Guilfoyle - Bass
Tom Rainey - Drums

Music written by, for, or associated with the great Charlie Parker.

The music on this groundbreaking recording is based on classic tunes from the Irish traditional music canon - but these pieces now form the nucleus for new compositions that examine many different possibilities presented by the traditional music, while at the same time allowing the improvising skills of the musicians to be brought to bear on the material in a creative and regenerative way.

These pieces are NOT arrangements of Irish traditional music per se - this is new music composed around and inspired by the music of the Irish tradition.

Rather than the usual procedure of this being a new look at Irish traditional music, it is a new look at contemporary jazz and composition practices as influenced by the song forms and practices of Irish traditional music.