Dublin based drummer /composer Kevin Brady has been performing professionally for 18 years. He is a founder member of the Hammond organ group Organics and is also a member of the critically acclaimed piano trio led by UK pianist Phil Ware. After studying classical piano and trumpet from an early age. His interest in drums began at 19 first at Newpark Music Centre. He later attended the Drummers Collective in New York, where his teachers were Kim Plainfield and Bobby Sanabrias.
Previous teachers have included Jeff Ballard, Matt Wilson, Ben Perowsky, Ralph Peterson, Joe Cusatis, Casey Scheurell, Elliot Zigmund and Keith Copeland and in Havana, Cuba with Jose Eladio. He achieved a Diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School Hall of Music in London and received a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. In recent times he has performed with international jazz musicians; Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone), Ian Shaw (vocalist/pianist), Brian Kelloch (Piano), Tim Ries (saxophone),
Jesse Davis (saxophone), Guy Barker (trumpet), Jim Mullen (guitar), Bobby Watson (alto), Ulf Wakenius (guitar), Giovanni Mirabassi (piano), Tim Whitehead (sax) and on the home front has worked with Van Morrison and Choice Award nominee singer Dave Geraghty (BellX1). In 2004 he performed at the Sydney Opera House, Australia, with award winning contemporary Irish group, Grada. He has performed at many jazz clubs and festivals worldwide including; Ronnie Scotts, Pizza Express London, the Jazz Utsav Festival in India, Euro Jazz
Festival Mexico, Cork, Glasgow, and numerous other European jazz festivals and clubs. In 2008, he was invited to represent Ireland in the European Jazz Colours, Jazz Orchestra in Italy.
He was recently endorsed by Bosphorus Cymbals, Vater Drumsticks and Evans Drumheads.

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After three critically acclaimed tours & festival performances throughout Ireland & the UK, Irish jazz musician Kevin Brady continues his collaboration with the innovative US pianist  Bill Carrothers. Brady has many years experience playing with some of lreland's most prominent trios including Hammond trio Organics and the Phil Ware Trio.



"One of the most dynamic forces in the Irish jazz scene” Sunday Tribune
Bill Carrothers is quite exceptional in this setting, having recorded with many acclaimed trios. Performed & recorded with luminaries such as Gary Peacock, Billy Higgins, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller and is quoted by the Chicago Tribune to be: “(Carrothers) a relentlessly inventive
pianist with harmonic sophistication has to be heard to be believed."
This is a rare opportunity for audiences to listen to some fine exponents of the jazz piano trio as some of 
Ireland's leading talents perform with one of the USA's great modern improvising musicians. The music performed by the trio features compositions from their critically acclaimed 2007 release entitled ‘Common Ground’ and from their latest recording ‘Zeitgeist’. The new album includes newly written compositions by all three members of the group, as well as featuring re-workings of jazz standards such as Black Nile, by Wayne Shorter.
‘Zeitgeist’ will be released  by the renowned jazz label Fresh Sound Records. In May 2009,  the trio begin their Irish & European Tour.

Kevin Brady Trio  debut album  entitled ‘Common Ground’ selected as one of the Top 20 album releases of 2008 by ejazznews

‘One of the finest drummers to emerge in recent years’
The Sunday Independent

‘Common Ground, Highly Recommended!’  
All About Jazz (USA)

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Montreal Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, and the Marciac Festival in France.
In October of 2000, Mr. Carrothers headlined the prestigious Rising Star Tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He has been a leader on fifteen recordings, all of which have received critical acclaim. His side-man credits have included some
Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for over 25 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival in Brussels, the Nevers Jazz Festival (where he shared the bill with Abbey Lincoln), the
of the greatest names in jazz, including; Joe Beck, Scott Colley, Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Eric Gravatt, Drew Gress, Marc Copland, Billy Higgins, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Gary Peacock, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, James Spaulding, Bill Stewart, Ira Sullivan, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Wallace.

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David began playing electric bass at the age of 16 and played in a rock band, he continued to study music throughout his early years. He attended The Newpark Music Centre, Dublin for three years (!999-2002) where he began studying double bass and received the Associate in Jazz Double Bass Performance, awarded by the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
In the summer of 2003 he continued his studies and travelled to New York to The School for Improvisational Music and studied under Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Don Byron and other leading jazz musicians. In 2005, he studied with bassist Drew Gress and in 2007 with Ben Allison. Redmond has performed with visiting artists such as Bob Dorough, Keith Copeland,
Dave Leibman, Jason Rigby, Bobby Wellins, Guy Barker, Ian Shaw, Jacqui Dankworth, Scott Hamilton, and Jim Mullen. He has peformed at numerous festivals and clubs throughout the world such as Ronnie Scotts and Pizza Express (London), Mexico (Tour with Phil Ware trio), N.Y.C, Dubai and Abu Dhabi (Cormac Kenevey Quartet), Switzerland, Hungry, (Yurodny) and Spain.

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