Sligo Jazz 2019:

Cathal Roche's Blues and the Sligo Truth is a new jazz suite which mines local reels, jigs and hornpipes to assimilate the melodic and modal intensities of the Sligo musical tradition within a jazz setting.  Through an harmonic and temporal sensibility of the post-bop era, Roche drives pulsating and elusive melodies through improvisational forms and modulating time.  The group of Irish jazz musicians assembled for the session include saxophonists Cathal Roche and Matt Halpin, pianist Scott Flanagan, bassist Conor Murray, with drummer Steve Davis being joined by John Joe Kelly on Bodhrán.