Music
03 Nov 09

Dublin City Jazz Orchestra takes up residency at the Button Factory

See the 17-piece band play every Monday in November.

The Dublin City Jazz Orchestra has started a 5 week residency in The Button Factory in Temple Bar. Their shows will be every Monday in November 2009, starting with November 2.

Admission is €10 at the door. Doors open at 8pm every night.

Come hear the band play music the musicians love to play themselves with arrangements by Irish arrangers Brian Byrne, David O’Rourke and Cormac McCarthy, as well as American arrangers Thad Jones, Count Bassey, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, and Oliver Nelson.

The band formed in 2007 and this is their second residency at The Button Factory. Originally called the Dublin City Big Band, the group was formed by Ciaran Wilde and Raymond Martin to showcase to children in the Ballymun Wind project the full experience of a Big Band sound to inspire their own musical projects. After this, they went on to play the Electric Picnic 2008 at the IMC World Music Stage, the reaction for which has spurred this residency into being, which is good news for Dubliners who want to have a great time dancing whilst appreciating fine musicianship.

The orchestra features 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, bass, drums and guitar all from professional full-time musicians who represent some of the finest in Europe, including the likes of Sketches of Now guitarist Hugh Buckley, leader of his piano trio, Phil Ware and Nick Roth, band leader of Klezmer group Yurodny. All musicians are prominent in both Irish and international scenes.

As individual session musicians, members have performed and recorded with the likes of U2, Oasis, Van Morrison, The Symphony and Concert Orchestra, movie soundtracks and top visiting artists like Dave Liebman, John Faddis, and Bobby Watson.

The Band:

www.tbmc.ie
www.improvisedmusic.ie