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31/01/2026

✨ 2025 Best Jazz Release Award — Nominees ✨

We’re delighted to reveal the 14 nominated albums for the 2025 Best Jazz Release Award — a vibrant snapshot of creativity across today’s jazz scene.

The nominees are:

Danny Groenland – burning rome
Adam Nolan Trio – Camouflage
Orlando Molina – Autorretrato En Tres Colores
Julyo – The Willow Doesn’t Weep
Nils Kavanagh – No Expectations
The Tolka Hot Club – Tolka Hot Club
Brian Byrne – She Must Go
John Donegan Trio, with Special Guest Richie Buckley – Interfuse
Ronan Guilfoyle's Bemusement Arcade – AT SWING, TWO BIRDS
Carole Nelson Trio – THROUGH THE STORM
emily jane – To Promenade
Chris Doherty – Call Me Jonah, I'm Geppetto
Tom Caraher – Ninety Degrees
Rodrigo Almonte – Sounds of the Blue Book

🎧 Listen to our playlist of singles from all the nominated albums — link in our bio.
🗳️ Vote for your favourite album here:
https://forms.gle/iL9KPiCXzje33quf9
⏰ Voting closes on 15th of February.

🏆 Winner to be announced soon

28/09/2025

Chops chops!!! with and

27/09/2025

Win 2 tickets for tomorrow's gig in , the Backroom. Doors at 3 PM! Music at 3.30!
Come and enjoy some mathrockjazz with and !!!
I think it's a new genre 🙊😸👀😆🙃

Tag a friend in the comments and like thus post and you can win 2 tickets 😀!

22/09/2025

Don't miss this great gig coming up Sunday 28th of September! MACH2 are ready to blast the roof off of The Back Room of The Cobblestone! Get your tickets via the link in our bio! Doors at 3pm

20/09/2025

Mach2 in full flow! 🔥 Next week in is going to be unmissable! Get your tickets via the link in our bio!

13/09/2025

A new second venue for The Dublin Jazz Co-op!
We are bringing jazz to Dun Laoghaire into the lovely !

A Tribute To Billie Holiday, Friday the 3rd of October, 19:00.
Info and tickets in our Bio Link!

Join vocalist Aleka, guitarist Chris Guilfoyle, bassist Derek Whyte, and drummer Conor Guilfoyle for an intimate celebration of the life and works of Billie Holiday — one of jazz’s most iconic and influential voices.

Billie Holiday’s singing, instantly recognisable for its smoky warmth and aching sincerity, reshaped how jazz could tell a story. With her ability to infuse every lyric with raw emotion and lived experience, she brought unvarnished truth to classics like Don’t Explain, Fine and Mellow, and God Bless the Child. Her repertoire overflows with songs of love, loss, resilience, and quiet defiance — music that still resonates deeply today.

This performance features fresh arrangements of her best-loved works alongside other gems from her storied career, capturing both the tenderness and fire that defined “Lady Day.”

09/09/2025

Next up at the Co-op! Math-Rock inspired grooves from MACH2. MACH2 are a guitar and drums duo who take influence from the world of Math-Rock including bands like Hella, Town Portal, Meshuggah and Chon, alongside contemporary jazz giants like Jim Black, Vijay Iyer and Skuli Sverisson. Expect an afternoon of heavy riffs, cyclical grooves and high octane improvisation from two of Dublin's leading jazz musicians.

Sunday, 28th of October in the Backroom of The
Doors: 3pm - Music: 3.30pm
Tickets via the link in our bio!

28/08/2025

Our friends at have launched an Ireland-wide survey for improvising musicians and artists and we would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it. Data such as this is vital when it comes to changing policies that directly jazz and improvising artists. The link to complete is in our story and there is more information below.

Improvising Across Boundaries (a Research Ireland research project led by Dr Sarah Raine [UCD School of Music] and in partnership with IMC) has launched an anonymous Ireland-wide survey for improvising musicians/artists.

Improvising Across Boundaries aims to support the continued development and health of improvised music in Ireland and to provide the necessary tools for musicians, promoters, educators, and media professionals to ensure that improvised music is inclusive and sustainable. The findings from this survey will be made available through Open Access reports (to be published online in 2027), alongside recommendations for improvised music in Ireland. The Open Access reports will offer evidence of the current issues relating to improvised music and will be designed for musician/artist use in applying for funding, lobbying policymakers, or instigating conversations with key gatekeepers or organisations.

This survey represents an essential opportunity for us all to produce a significant body of evidence, available to all. Please do ensure that your voice is heard by filling in this survey by the 5th of October.

https://forms.gle/ShWWzYLK45pDyZVX9

05/08/2025

Next up we have our very own curator, Hayley Kavanagh and her quartet playing the The Backroom of The Cobblestone on August 31st! Doors at 3pm, music at 3.30. Get tickets now via Eventbrite, they're already going fast!

29/07/2025

The Dublin Jazz Co-op would like to invite you to an open Zoom meeting on Wednesday, August 6th at 7 pm (Dublin time) to discuss how we can grow the audience for jazz in Dublin—both at our gigs and in the broader music scene.

This meeting will be hosted by members of the Dublin Jazz Co-op: Aleka Potinga, Hayley Kavanagh, and Chris Guilfoyle.

Please complete the short questionnaire below to register for the meeting.
You will receive a Zoom meeting link via email closer to the date.
👉 https://forms.gle/ojNKfuGHKgBzUSoD8

This meeting is relevant to:

Professional and emerging jazz/improvised musicians, and music students

Promoters and bookers for jazz and improvised music in Dublin

Live music venues interested in jazz

Jazz journalists and writers

Amateur jazz musicians, hobbyists, and regular gig-goers

Topics to be discussed:

How to reach and grow the jazz audience in Dublin

Strategies for better audience engagement at gigs

Collaboration opportunities with venues, media, and cultural organisations

What’s missing in the current scene—and how we can improve it

Other ideas and suggestions raised in the questionnaire

We look forward to hearing your input and working together to bring jazz to more ears across Dublin!

28/07/2025

A clip from yesterday's great gig with the trio! Thanks to everyone who came down!

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