John Donegan

About the show

Pianist John Donegan has visited annually to promote his series of sextet albums, but this year has returned to quartet format for his latest CD Interfuse, recorded in Dublin, May 2025. The recording features the cream of Ireland's jazz scene including former Van Morrison saxophonist Richie Buckley, but as on previous occasions tonight we present John's music with a specially formed Bristol version.
For the first time John will be joined by Dan Newberry on sax duties - Dan is a firebrand player whose musical maturity belies his relative youth and his playing never fails to impress. The rock solid rhythm team of Chris Jones and Ryan Thrupp have played for John's previous sextet visits.
Originally from Cork in Ireland, John Donegan lived in Bristol during the 90s and was a mainstay of the jazz scene here before work took him to London. Now retired from his day job, over the past few years John has been able to dedicate his time exclusively to music and has released several recordings demonstrating his compositional skills including his three sextet albums Shadows Linger [2022], Light Streams [2023] and We Will Meet Again, Sometime [2024].
Once again John has gained a hard to achieve four star review in Jazzwise Magazine "In short, superb music; and brilliant production" alongside other excellent reviews you will find in Jazz Journal, UK Jazz News and All About Jazz.