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Ronan Guilfoyle's 96 Miles at Bray Jazz Festival at Mermaid Arts Centre
Courtesy of Bray Jazz | Posted on March 26, 2023
When
Sun, April 30, 2023
14:00
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Miles Davis and his various bands created a huge repertoire of music that is regularly performed all over the world, and that forms a sizeable portion of the traditional jazz repertoire.
Written by Ronan Guilfoyle, one of Ireland’s leading bassists and composers, ’96Miles’ is a large scale work for sextet, dedicated to Miles, that references the various stages of his career from the acoustic music of the quintets to the electric groove-based music of his later years.
Featuring the renowned New York flautist Jamie Baum, and a roster of Ireland’s fines tperformers – including saxophonist Michael Buckley, Leo Osio and Chris Guilfoyle – ’96 Miles’ is a dedication to Miles as we near what would have been his 96th birthday....