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IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

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22 episodes

9 months ago

In this episode, IMC’s director Kenneth Kileen and guest host Matthew Winkler caught up with jazz guitarist Joe O’Callaghan. Matthew is a Dublin-based guitarist and has been running a YouTube channel with a series called Dublin Guitar Duets, and Joe - who was mostly self-taught guitar - has played with many leading Irish and international jazz musicians.Joe O’Callaghan is a genuine force in Irish jazz guitar, his playing characterised by extended tasteful lines, contemporary chord shapes and ...

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In this episode, IMC’s director Kenneth Kileen and guest host Matthew Winkler caught up with jazz guitarist Joe O’Callaghan. Matthew is a Dublin-based guitarist and has been running a YouTube channel with a series called Dublin Guitar Duets, and Joe - who was mostly self-taught guitar - has played with many leading Irish and international jazz musicians.Joe O’Callaghan is a genuine force in Irish jazz guitar, his playing characterised by extended tasteful lines, contemporary chord shapes and ...

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Music Interviews

Episodes (20/22)

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

Falling in love with the jazz guitar, with Joe O’Callaghan & guest host Matthias Winkler

In this episode, IMC’s director Kenneth Kileen and guest host Matthew Winkler caught up with jazz guitarist Joe O’Callaghan. Matthew is a Dublin-based guitarist and has been running a YouTube channel with a series called Dublin Guitar Duets, and Joe - who was mostly self-taught guitar - has played with many leading Irish and international jazz musicians.Joe O’Callaghan is a genuine force in Irish jazz guitar, his playing characterised by extended tasteful lines, contemporary chord shapes and ...

3 years ago

43 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

Out of the Shadows - talking improvisation with US pianist Craig Taborn

In this episode, IMC’s director Kenneth Killeen sat down with US pianist Craig Taborn to discuss all things improvisation prior to his triumphant Dublin concert. Craig was kicking off his European tour in support of his latest ECM solo release, “Shadow Plays” - released 10 years after his first offering, “Avenging Angels.”In this wide ranging conversation, they talked about Craig’s approach to improvisation and how it forms his distinctive process of spontaneous composition; Taborn is f...

3 years ago

45 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

Afrobeat in focus: Culture, message, and identity in Afrobeat music with Segun Akano & Uché Gabriel Akujobi of Yankari Afrobeat Collective

In this episode, IMC’s Kenneth Killeen caught up with Segun Akano & Uché Gabriel Akujobi from Yankari Afrobeat Collective at The Sugar Club. They talked about what makes Afrobeat - the culture, rhythm, & message that’s essential to it, and about identity, and transforming identities bringing cultures together. We also got a great insight into Yankari’s creative process, and how they work together making music.Die-hard Fela fans, Dublin-based band Yankari, aspire to advance the origina...

3 years ago

36 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

Afrobeat in focus: Being a Congolese musician in Ireland, and developing a guitar obsession - Niwel Tsumbu on IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

At The Sugar Club before a vibrant performance by Niwel Tsumbu’s Hearbeat (with special guest Shayan Coohe), IMC’s Kenneth Killeen caught up with Niwel in a long chat about musical explorations while growing up in Congo, falling in love with the guitar, meeting and collaborating with Irish-based musicians, and more. Since arriving in Ireland in 2004 from the Congo, Niwel Tsumbu has developed an enviable reputation as a masterfully elegant and fluent guitarist, vocalist, musician, collabo...

3 years ago

30 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

Poetry in music, international careers and returning to Ireland with Christine Tobin & Phil Robson

At the Sin É before a beautiful performance, IMC’s Kenneth Killeen caught up with singer Christine Tobin and guitarist Phil Robson in a long chat about returning to Ireland, approaches to creating music from poetry, working together and influence on each other’s work, jazz scenes in NY and the UK, and some words of advice for young musicians. Christine TobinRenowned for her kaleidoscopic musical palette, she can be a junkyard blues philosopher, snappy beat seductress, a conduit for exqui...

3 years ago

42 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast with Jim Black

Kenneth Killeen of IMC caught up with legendary Detroit-born drummer Jim Black amidst his pan-European tour as a mentor of a musical laboratory, Criss Cross Europe.Jim is currently coaching the band of six rising stars of the European jazz scene, whose tour stops in Dublin at the Freemasons’ Hall on Thursday 9th December 2021. https://www.improvisedmusic.ie/events/details/criss-cross-dublin Berlin-based American drummer Jim Black - is one of the most influential voices in cont...

3 years ago

54 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 6: Meilana Gillard & Chris Guilfoyle

Welcome to the sixth Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up guitarist Chris Guilfoyle with tenor saxophonist Meilana Gillard.Each episode in Blind Date Jazz is a new encounter between 2 artists , playing ‘blind’ with no knowledge who the other person is, no advance preparation or even an indication of instrumentation. Halfway through we drop the curtain and they suddenly see who their new improvising partner is - can you hear a...

4 years ago

33 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 5: Sean Carpio + Colm O'Hara

Welcome to the fifth Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up percussionist Sean Carpio with trombone players Colm O’Hara.Each episode in Blind Date Jazz is a new encounter between 2 artists , playing ‘blind’ with no knowledge who the other person is, no advance preparation or even an indication of instrumentation. Halfway through we drop the curtain and they can see who their new improvising partner is -can we hear a change in t...

4 years ago

31 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 4: Hugh Buckley + Derek Whyte

Welcome to the second Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up guitarist Hugh Buckley with bassist Derek Whyte. Each episode in Blind Date Jazz is a new encounter between 2 artists , playing ‘blind’ with no knowledge who the other person is, no advance preparation or even an indication of instrumentation. Halfway through we drop the curtain and they can see who their new improvising partner is -can we hear a change in the mu...

4 years ago

24 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 3: Mike Nielsen + Cathal Roche

Welcome to the second Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up guitarist Mike Nielsen and saxophonist/clarinetist Cathal Roche.Each episode in Blind Date Jazz is a new encounter between 2 artists , playing ‘blind’ with no knowledge who the other person is, no advance preparation or even an indication of instrumentation. Halfway through we drop the curtain and they can see who their new improvising partner is -can we hear a change...

4 years ago

27 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 2: Izumi Kimura + Lina Andonovska

Welcome to the second Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up pianist Izumi Kimura with flautist Lina Andonovska.Each episode in Blind Date Jazz is a new encounter between 2 artists , playing ‘blind’ with no knowledge who the other person is, no advance preparation or even an indication of instrumentation. Half way through we drop the curtain and they can see who their new improvising partner is -can we hear a change in the musi...

4 years ago

26 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's Blind Date Jazz Episode 1: Matthew Jacobson + Olesya Zdorovetska

Welcome to the first Blind Date Jazz episode of IMC’s Creative About Music Podcast. For this musical blind date, we paired up vocalist and pianist Olesya Zdorovetska with percussionist Matthew Jacobson.Blind Date Jazz brings listening and creative improvisation into focus, with some of Ireland’s leading improvisers coming into the studio to create an exciting, new, musical conversation.The twist?Neither musician has any idea who they are playing with. Hear the musicians reflect on what i...

4 years ago

31 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep 10 with Sarah Raine

Welcome to a new episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest today is researcher and author Dr. Sarah Raine.We talk about her roots in anthropology and museum work, dance, and her interest in the experiences of women in music. She shares thoughts about women, and the representation of women in different roles in jazz, from th...

4 years ago

41 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep 9 with Emilie Conway

Welcome to a new episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest today is jazz singer, composer and lyricist Emilie Conway from Dublin.We chat about how music has been a guiding light for her throughout her life, as a person with serious visual impairment. She shares about her interdisciplinary approach to creativity and recent p...

4 years ago

46 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep 8 with Catherine Sikora

Welcome to a new episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest today is Catherine Sikora, a powerful saxophonist and improviser born and raised in West Cork, and based in New York for over 20 years.We chat about her teenage determination to learn the saxophone, despite many obstacles. The gently discipline of her creativity - a...

4 years ago

45 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep 7 with Izumi Kimura

Welcome to a new episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest today is Izumi Kimura, a celebrated pianist, improviser and collaborator based in Co. Wicklow. We explore her musical background, from strict classical training to free improvisation, as well as her reverse compositional approach that is reflective of her intui...

4 years ago

35 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM podcast: Episode 6 with Lina Andonovska

Welcome to the sixth episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest on the show today is Lina Andonovska, a flautist, improviser, composer and collaborator born in Serbia, raised in Australia and who now calls Ireland home. We talk about the importance of capturing moments of inspiration, be it words, melody or collaborativ...

4 years ago

44 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep 5 with Meilana Gillard

Welcome to the fifth episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest on the show today is Meilana Gillard, an impressive tenor saxophonist and composer, originally from Ohio but based in Northern Ireland since 2012. We talk about her multi-instrumental approach to composing, her early experience of playing in a big band in h...

4 years ago

30 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM podcast: Episode 4 with guest Ríona Sally Hartman

Welcome to the fourth episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. My guest on this show is Ríona Sally Hartman, a vocalist, composer and educator from Dublin. Ríona is also a board member of IMC as a representative of the Irish musician community, and a collaborator with IMC in developing the BAN BAM initiative to support women in jazz...

4 years ago

39 minutes

IMC's Creative About Music Podcast

IMC's BAN BAM Podcast Ep3 with Úna Monaghan

Welcome to the third episode of IMC’s weekly BAN BAM podcast, where we explore creative work from inspiration to execution, through conversations with a host of women working in jazz and creative improvised music today. Our guest on the show today is Úna Monaghan, a harpist, sound artist and composer from Belfast, and one of three recipients of the BAN BAM commissioning award in 2020.We talk about the exciting new work she is developing for the BAN BAM commission award, and the parallels...

4 years ago

37 minutes