Come in, Europe!

A fresh take on jazz featuring up and coming jazzists from around Europe, courtesy of Improvised Music Company's annual 12 Points! Festival. It's all happening at Project, with 3 concerts nightly from Wed 11 to Sat 14 Feb (that's, like, NOW), and a healthy diversity of sounds which should appeal to jazz lovers in all their many shapes and sizes. You can take your pick of pianistic lyricism from London's Curios and Helsinki's Aki Risannen; varying degrees of electronica from Dublin's Morla and Rome's Luca Aquino; rhythmic traditionalism with a new twist from Spanish bassist Giulia Valle and Poland's Audiofeeling; looser sounds from Oslo's Albatrosh and Berlin's Hyperactive Kid; shades of contemporary classical from Stockholm's Paavo; and just about everything else from Copenhagen's Magnus Fra Gaarden. Me, I'm planning on checking out French saxophonist Emile Parisien and Amsterdam's Zapp. Visit www.12points.ie for myspace links etc