Jazz
Livia Records · 5 November 2026
Piano, bass and drums, and on three tracks the piano on its own. “Made in Dublin”, released by Livia Records on 5 November on CD (catalogue number LRCD2603), captures a Tommy Flanagan studio session that had never been issued, with Dublin drummer John Wadham and a young New York bassist, Lindsey Horner. According to the label, it was an impromptu session, suggested by Wadham after a concert the trio had played in August 1984.
The album opens with two Charlie Parker tunes, “Relaxin’ at Camarillo” and “Donna Lee”, and the three solo piano pieces are spread through the running order: Jerome Kern’s “The Way You Look Tonight” as track three, Thad Jones’s “A Child Is Born” at six and George Gershwin’s “Lady Be Good” at eight. In between, the trio plays Thelonious Monk’s “Straight, No Chaser”, Gershwin’s “Summertime” and Oscar Pettiford’s “Blues in the Closet”. The label’s tracklist adds a ninth, Coltrane’s “Naima”.
The tape surfaced in Wadham’s archive, where fellow drummer Conor Guilfoyle tracked it down, and Horner wrote the sleeve notes. How Flanagan came to be in Dublin, on holiday, is told in our news piece on the release.
Text by Aina Torrents