@philipwatson

philipwatson has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in April 2023. The social media accounts linked to from philipwatson are: X. Besides social media accounts, philipwatson has populated their site with ‘My sister was, like, you don’t have to fit in – you’re weird, and it’s okay that you’re weird’ – The Irish Times, Review of Insufficient Funs | Chunk | Sam Comerford and Matthew Jacobson | Journal of Music in Ireland, www.philipwatson.info, Musician and composer Mary Halvorson: ‘I’m not trying to be weird. It’s just how I see things’ – The Irish Times, The music of Makaya McCraven: Editing as composition, the studio as instrument – The Irish Times, Jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson: ‘I didn’t register it was actually Louis Armstrong showing me how to play’ – The Irish Times, Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert: An epic journey into the unknown – The Irish Times, ‘It was as if Louis Stewart and James Joyce were kindred spirits’ – The Irish Times, Jazz pianist Kris Davis: ‘I remember feeling at 13 that this is what I want to do forever’ – The Irish Times, Review of Obsany by Simon Jermyn, Otis Sandsjö, Lukas Akintaya and Petter Eldh | Journal of Music, www.irishjournalismawards.ie, What’s gone wrong at Guinness Cork Jazz Festival? – The Irish Times, Review of Nils Kavanagh Trio Album No Expectations | Journal of Music, www.irishtimes.com, Big Band Evolution pianist Cormac McCarthy: ‘I’m still not able to understand how I played. It was painful to hit the keys’, Seamus Murphy took his camera from the Rust Belt to Russia. What he s…, Emma Rawicz: ‘I think jazz is made for people who don’t necessarily fit into life’s prescribed boxes’, A Tenderness Created in the Moment, Irish drummer Kevin Brady: ‘Most nights you’re able to hear great live jazz. But we need something like classical has in the NCH’, www.philipwatson.info, www.thewire.co.uk, ‘You have to be delusional to be successful in anything’ – Bray Jazz Festival star Nubya Garcia, The Music of Kenny Wheeler review: All-star Irish line-up keeps jazz virtuoso’s legacy vibrantly alive, Ethan Iverson at Triskel review: Jazz pianist shows off his harmonic elegance, delicate touch and winningly relaxed manner, ‘The holy men thought it was vulgar and obscene’: Irish jazz pianist Jim Doherty on 70 years in music, Danish guitarist Jakob Bro on Paul Motian: ‘It was the most surreal thing ever, like calling someone from a different planet’, Nubya Garcia: Odyssey – An exhilarating mix of jazz, reggae, dub, neosoul and R&B, Arooj Aftab: ‘If we all listened to more things that surprise us, we’d all be better for it’, Ezra Collective: ‘The Irish and Nigerians have got a lot more in common than Guinness!’, Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding: Milton + Esperanza – Mini-masterpiece with the near-magical melding of two voices, Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland – Brilliant, seamless debut from an outstanding, forward-thinking new jazz quartet, Matt Wilson: Good Trouble – Right from the first notes, you know you’re in expert hands, Arooj Aftab: Night Reign – Powerful, affecting and unlike anything else, Saxophonist Linda Fredriksson: ‘If I’m able to reach somebody who is not a jazz enthusiast or nerd, that’s the best possible goal’, 60% OFF Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music, Kamasi Washington: Fearless Movement – Somehow both more and less than The Epic and Heaven and Earth, Dave Douglas: ‘I wanted my music to be authentic and never the same twice. So there were a lot of years in the wilderness’, Bill Frisell: Orchestras – Guitarist, trio and ensembles become one multifaceted whole, Samara Joy in Dublin: The young jazz star who earned a standing ovation from Adele, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley: Journey to Where – Swing, emotion and atmosphere, Ches Smith: Laugh Ash – thrilling, unpredictable album that plays by its own extravagant set of rules, ‘You’re playing like a girl’: Why is jazz still so male?, Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song – One of the jazz albums of the year, Nitai Hershkovits: Call on the Old Wise – Exquisitely executed inventions, Ireland in 50 Albums, No 23: Out On His Own, by Louis Stewart (1977), Matthew Halsall: ‘I wanted to paint through sound and transport the listener to special places that I found beautiful’, Unlimited Editions: Red Hook - The Wire, Garech Browne: The irascible Guinness heir who did so much for Irish music, www.audiobooks.com, Faber Radio Presents 'Ultimate' Bill Frisell | Journal | Faber, The Blue of the Night with Bernard Clarke - RTÉ lyric fm, Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer - Audiobook, Gerald Clayton: ‘Craft, rhythm, expression – the parallels between music and surfing are endless’.