Dublin-based Livia Records releases its first album of a new era when saxophonist Michael Buckley’s Ebb and Flow hits the streets on Friday 28th February.
Set up originally to release the music of the late Irish jazz guitar virtuoso, Louis Stewart, Livia ceased trading with the death of its founder, Gerald Davis, in 2005. The label was reactivated by Dublin radio presenter and music enthusiast Dermot Rogers in 2021 and albums including Stewart’s legendary solo album, Out on His Own, and his debut recording, Louis the First, were re-released.
Following the release of a previously unknown duo recording by Stewart and the great American guitarist Jim Hall, Rogers moved to promote musicians on the current Irish scene.
Ebb and Flow, which features the vastly experienced Buckley alongside pianist Greg Felton, bassist Barry Donohue and drummer Shane O’Donovan, is launched at Arthur’s Blues and Jazz Club in Dublin on Thursday, 27th February.
It will be released in tandem with the reissue of Dublin pianist Jim Doherty’s Spondance, which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1986 and features Louis Stewart and Doherty in an octet with top LA players including trumpeter Bobby Shew and saxophonist Bob Sheppard.