Bray Jazz Festival, Ireland, with Meilana Gillard's Quartet

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Meilana Gillard Quartet (US/UK/Ireland)

Mermaid Arts Centre, Friday 3rd - Opening for Zoe Rahman

Opens for Zoe Rahman Quintet

Tenor saxophonist Meilana Gillard’s gutsy playing recalls jazz  legends Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins, as well as modern masters such  as Joe Lovano.

Raised in the US but now living in Derry, she studied Jazz at The New  School University in NYC where she resided for eight years. She was a  member of Charli Persip’s Big Band ‘Supersound’ and his Quintet, and has  performed at such celebrated jazz venues as  Birdland, Jazz Standard,  Blue Note, Minton’s Playhouse and Dizzy’s Club.

Gillard joined forces with drummer Kevin Brady and bassist Dave  Redmond in 2019, whose ‘RGB Trio’, release was one of the Irish jazz  albums of last year. As band leader here, Meilana Gillard will be joined  in a quartet by the great UK guitarist Phil Robson, by drummer Kevin  Brady and bassist Barry Donohue.

The Irish Times“… a gutsy, inventive player with a forceful melodic sense and an open, old-school tenor sound.”