Renowned jazz musician Linley Hamilton and his quartet delighted our audience on a landmark First Friday performance. The concert has been the highlight of the Castlereagh Arts Summer programme thus far, as the quartet has just released their new album and they were on tour to promote it.
Described as ‘a trumpeter whose playing combines formidable technical expertise with verve and passion’, Linley Hamilton entertained the audience with his brisk Dublin-based Quartet with Johnny Taylor at the piano, Dan Bodwell at the bass and Dominic Mullan on drums. The set was drawn from hard hitting contemporary tunes such as Woody Shaw’s ‘Rosewood’, to adaptations of ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ and Abbey Lincoln’s ‘Throw It Away’. The new album is called ‘Taylor Made’ as it was highly influenced by the pianist Johnny Taylor.
There were more than 25 people attending the gig and several council staff were drawn in the function suite by the quality of the music.
This first ‘First Friday Concert’ of our summer season was a great success and we want to thank the great musicians that made it happen! Our next performance, in July we have the pleasure of hosting another fantastic musician, Anthony Toner, who is going to perform songs from the album ‘Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon’ by James Taylor, celebrating the album’s 40th anniversary…a different Taylor but still great music!
Don’t miss it out!
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