Suggestions for irish flute music played in jazzy style?

[squirrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTn4qbUIBU

Beautiful, thanks

[Tjones]

Here are a couple of my favorites ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmOWV5F-Ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05PntwH07g

Not sure it"s Jazz ~ But It's pretty nice.

[Unseen122]

Keep forgetting to mention these guys on threads like this; did so on the session the other day. Anyway Ensemble Eriu is one of my favorite trad bands of recent years; only so much flute content (the bass player plays some flute and whistle) but definitely jazzy (like full on clarinet solos and everything!)



Edited to fix typo and add to post.

[chas]

This question has been asked many times before
and I usually recoil from the lameness of the examples
put forth as "jazz" or (please don't let me wretch) "jazzy".
Traditional Irish, Scottish or what have you players noodling
around bending their notes, playing pentatonic, pentatonic minor
and whole note scales is not jazz. It might be masterfully conceived
and virtuosically played but it ain't jazz,
This is the only recording that I've ever heard that meets any part of
the description. Not because of the melody players who are fabulous,
but the rhythm section who are in fact dyed in the wool jazz players.
So here it is. Traditional Irish music (mostly) with jazz accompaniment
played by real jazz players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bQ7Nr ... o6&index=5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrqDiq ... _iSEaJAMo6

p.s.
Regina Carter who plays violin on some
of these cuts isn't really a jazz player either.
She's a classically trained violinist that plays
the above mentioned scales and calls it jazz.

Jazz is a pretty big tent. There's a lot of trad jazz that doesn't fit your model, and bands like Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra that don't fit my father's model. They're all dyed-in-the-wool jazz players. I like them all, even if they can't be pigeonholed.

[oleorezinator]

Jazz is a pretty big tent. There's a lot of trad jazz that doesn't fit your model, and bands like Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra that don't fit my father's model. They're all dyed-in-the-wool jazz players. I like them all, even if they can't be pigeonholed.

Jazz is a huge tent and I like lots of different wrinkles in that fabric.
My problem is with people who noodle and call it jazz when previously
they've played nothing but basic diatonic music. Like when classically
trained players start to improvise. Nu age Muzak and celtoid noodling
have a lot in common.

[chas]

Jazz is a pretty big tent. There's a lot of trad jazz that doesn't fit your model, and bands like Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra that don't fit my father's model. They're all dyed-in-the-wool jazz players. I like them all, even if they can't be pigeonholed.

Jazz is a huge tent and I like lots of different wrinkles in that fabric.
My problem is with people who noodle and call it jazz when previously
they've played nothing but basic diatonic music. Like when classically
trained players start to improvise. Nu age Muzak and celtoid noodling
have a lot in common.

I saw a great documentary on Stephane Grapelli. Sometime, I think in the 60's or 70's, he did some shows with Yehudi Menuhin. They'd play a set of classical and a set of jazz. Menuhin never did learn to improvise, so had to have solos written out for him. At least he admitted it rather than as you said, noodling and calling it jazz.

[squirrel]

Keep forgetting to mention these guys on threads like this; did so on the session the other day. Anyway Ensemble Eriu is one of my favorite trad bands of recent years; only so much flute content (the bass player plays some flute and whistle) but definitely jazzy (like full on clarinet solos and everything!)

Interesting band... seems like Philip Glass meets Irish music

[s1m0n]

I saw a great documentary on Stephane Grapelli. Sometime, I think in the 60's or 70's, he did some shows with Yehudi Menuhin. They'd play a set of classical and a set of jazz. Menuhin never did learn to improvise, so had to have solos written out for him. At least he admitted it rather than as you said, noodling and calling it jazz.

My fave Grapelli quote came when someone asked him if it was difficult to improvise. He thought about it and said, "No, it's not difficult, if you can do it at all."

[Unseen122]

Keep forgetting to mention these guys on threads like this; did so on the session the other day. Anyway Ensemble Eriu is one of my favorite trad bands of recent years; only so much flute content (the bass player plays some flute and whistle) but definitely jazzy (like full on clarinet solos and everything!)

Interesting band... seems like Philip Glass meets Irish music

I think they have taken the most creative approach to trad I've hard in a long time!