Yurodny — Red Hora (Oleg Ponomarev)Live at Cork Jazz Festival, Everyman Palace Theatre, 2009 · Video
A landmark performance with Irish based composer Nick Roth’s ‘Yurodny’ featuring an extraordinary international ensemble including Miklós Lukács — one of the world's foremost cimbalom players and soloist with the BBC SymphonyOrchestra; Mihály Borbély — Kossuth and Liszt Prize-winning multi-reedist and professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest; and Tom Arthurs — BBC New Generation Artist and Head of Jazz at Bern University of the Arts. Alongside leading Irish based improvisers including Cora Venus Lunny, Kate Ellis and Grammy Award-winning Francesco Turrisi.
Crash Ensemble — Wingform (Barry O'Halpin) Live at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 2022
Colm O'Hara performs trombone on this major work by composer Barry O'Halpin, selected by the Arts Council of Ireland as a case study in their Digital Arts Policy as "a perfect example of boundary-pushing creative collaboration." Conducted by Maestro Ryan McAdams (US) and directed by Kate Ellis (UK).
Lisa O'Neill — Old Note, from All of This is Chance Rough Trade Records, 2023
Colm O'Hara performs trombone on Old Note, the lead single from Lisa O'Neill's fifth and most acclaimed album, released on Rough Trade to universal critical praise. Described by the Guardian as "raw and unvarnished folk for austere times" and named Folk Album of the Year. Featuring Colm Mac Con Iomaire violin, Kate Ellis cello, Cormac Begley concertina and Joseph Doyle bass.
Laura Jurd — Human Spirit Live at the Barbican, London Jazz Festival, 2014
Colm O'Hara performs on this acclaimed recording by award-winning British trumpeter and composer Laura Jurd, receiving four stars from Jazzwise and described by the Irish Times as featuring "two fast-rising Irish improvisers." Featuring Laura Jurd trumpet, Lauren Kinsella vocals, Alex Roth guitar and Corrie Dick drums, Chris Batchelor trumpet - founder member of the legendary Pigfoot and Loose Tubes bands, and Paul Hamlyn Award winning composer, Mick Foster bass saxophone whose film credits include Prometheus, Vice and Don't Look Up.
John Francis Flynn — Dirty Old Town, from Look Over the Wall, See the Sky River Lea Records, 2023
Colm O'Hara performs trombone on the closing track of John Francis Flynn's second album, described by The Quietus as featuring "soft brass... beautiful and hallucinatory, transformed from social realism to a dream in which the past arrives as a visitation." The album was named Album of the Week by Stereogum and described as "a radical and unsettling addition to the living tradition of Irish folk song.
ReDiviDeR — Haiku, from Mere Nation Diatribe Records, 2020
The closing track from ReDiviDeR's acclaimed third album, described by All About Jazz as "a beguiling hybrid of simplicity and complexity, tunefulness and adventure." Featuring Matthew Jacobson drums, Nick Roth alto saxophone, Derek Whyte electric bass and Colm O'Hara trombone.