Rural Electrification Scheme
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About this event
The Sofa Sessions presents Cormac Larkin’s Rural Electrification Scheme
Kilkenny-based drummer and Irish Times jazz critic leads a quintet of top-notch Dublin musicians playing late '60s Miles Davis, Weather Report, etc.
9pm, No CC
Bill Blackmore - trumpet
Chris Engel - saxophones
Darragh William O'Ceallaigh - keboards
Barry Donohue - bass
Cormac Larkin - drums
Sometime around the late 1960s, around the time that top Irish jazz drummer Cormac Larkin was being born, Miles Davis began using electric instruments. It was a move that caused much anguish and soul searching in the jazz community, but once the genie was out of the bottle, there was no going back. Jazz-rock ‘fusion’ was born and groups like Weather Report, Return to Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra were soon more popular than jazz groups had ever been before.
This new group, led by Sofa Sessions curator and Irish Times jazz critic, Cormac Larkin, explores the first few years of that ‘switch on’, when Miles Davis’ groups - featuring future stars like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin and Dave Holland - applied the rules of jazz to sounds and grooves more associated with R&B and funk.
Location
39 John Street Lower
Venue details
Billy Byrnes is a family run tradional Irish bar and first opened its doors in 1954. We are centrally located in Kilkenny City, just around the corner from the train and bus station.
