Linley Hamilton Quartet

Linley Hamilton is a trumpeter, educator and broadcaster from Belfast who has been part of the jazz scene for over 40 years. He is an artist with 6 studio albums: Up to Now (2001), Taylor Made (2011), In Transition (2014), Making Other Arrangements (2018), For the Record (2020) and Ginger’s Hollow (2022). Making Other Arrangements was a large-ensemble with strings album made with Camden Recording Studios Dublin, while the follow-up album, For the Record, was made with Linley’s quintet. These two albums spent twenty-five weeks in the US Jazzweek charts and generated an international profile for Linley who has been working in recent years in the UK and Europe as band leader.

Linley has been a part of the Irish music scene for over thirty-five years and since then he has juggled a career as a trumpet player with being a BBC Jazz Broadcaster and an educator. There have been many career highlights in the past with significant performances or recordings with Paul Brady, Van Morrison, Foy Vance, Andrew Strong and the Commitments to name a few, but he is working just as hard as ever these days and is celebrating success with his own recent albums ‘Taylor Made’ and ‘In Transition’, ‘Making Other Arrangements’, ‘For the Record’ and ‘Ginger’s Hollow’, as well as three albums with the celebrated John Donegan Sextet.

In February 2014, Jazz UK dedicated 3 pages of their magazine to profiling him and his continued work in the UK. In 2019, Linley and his wife Maggie established the celebrated jazz venue Magy’s Farm, which overlooks the Mournes, and has featured concerts by a number of Grammy winners including keyboardist Jim Beard, also the Larry Goldings Trio and Trio Grande, from the US. He has headlined Cork Jazz Festival twice, and continues performing his own music as an international touring musician.