Day 3 of 12 Points festival opens with the standout trumpeter Laura Jurd Quartet - think electric era Miles Davis, with a folkloric twist, as Laura's unique compositional style brings her influences together in a distinctive world of groove and improvisation.
Copenhagen’s SVIN create a sometimes dark, drone of heavy riffs and detuned instruments, but can then break gasping, into a fragile chamber melody.
Sassy, sexy super jazz from Amsterdam by BRUUT! will be a perfect Friday night closer, making brutal jazz out of juicy boogaloo and fat rhythm & blues.
The freshest, hottest sounds in jazz and contemporary experimental music” - The Irish Times
12 Points is a 4 day festival presenting 12 young cutting-edge acts from 12 different European countries with widely diverse sounds; rebelling and reinterpreting any fixed notions of ‘jazz’. This April sees the 9th edition of exuberant European jazz festival 12 Points, back home in Dublin after a 2014 edition in Sweden.
