CD – Remastered with an extra track, a 16-page booklet with the original sleeve notes and new, extended notes including recollections from Louis’ long-term friend, pianist Jim Doherty, and a trove of previously unseen photographs. The long-awaited re-release of guitar genius Louis Stewart’s 1976 debut as a leader. Beautifully remastered, this edition allows listeners to […]
Livia Records is pleased to announce the release of ALONE TOGETHER from Louis Stewart and Brian Dunning, our final release of 2025.ALONE TOGETHER is a remixed and remastered release of a live duet album from great Irish jazz musicians, Louis Stewart, guitar, and Brian Dunning, flute.Recorded in Dublin’s Peacock Theatre over a series of three […]
Louis’s 2013 duet recording with pianist Jim Doherty.In the fifty or so years since these two guys first met they worked on literally hundreds of musical projects together, while always promising that some day they’d record an album of guitar and piano duets. They did this with the encouragement of Daire Winston at Beechpark Studios […]
THE DUBLIN CONCERT is a previously unreleased album of Louis Stewart and Jim Hall recorded live in concert to a delighted Dublin audience on 26th December 1982. Tapes discovered in 2022 have been carefully digitized and mastered to present the captivating, empathetic and poetic playing of this outstanding duo. This album will be a delight […]
SPONDANCE is the 1986 octet album of pianist Jim Doherty’s jazz suite, recorded with close friends Louis Stewart and Bobby Shew, and the cream of Los Angeles musicians (Bob Sheppard: alto, Gordon Brisker: tenor, Randy Aldcroft: trombone, Tom Warrington: bass, and Billy Mintz: drums). The six tracks deliver a fine example of modern jazz ensemble […]
SOME OTHER BLUES is a major release from Irish guitar giant Louis Stewart and his friend and collaborator, pianist, Noel Kelehan (pronounce keel-a-han) This previously unreleased gem reinforces Louis Stewart’s reputation and reveals Noel Kelehan, whose Bill Evans-like playing wasn’t widely known. SOME OTHER BLUES features 8 standards, including the title track by John Coltrane, […]
LP – Limited Edition 180g Black Vinyl. Recorded in late 1976 and released in 1977 (LP and cassette) and CD in 1995, this new edition includes extensive sleeve notes by Irish Times jazz critic Cormac Larkin and a trove of previously unseen photographs. The 1977 solo album by Louis Stewart – Ireland’s major contribution to […]
I Thought About You is a major remixed, remastered, and extended release of Irish jazz guitar master Louis Stewart’s 1977 quartet album with the English pianist John Taylor and the American rhythm team of bassist Sam Jones and drummer Billy Higgins. Recorded when Louis was working with Ronnie Scott’s house band (as was John Taylor), the session coincided with pianist Cedar Walton’s […]
James Stewart gives one of his finest performances in Harvey, the lighthearted film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Stewart stars as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood’s obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in the […]
In the early 60s, blues and R&B was ‘the’ sound among the cool youngsters of Great Britain. That obsession with black music (which extended to soul music too), along an unbridled passion for elegance pave the way to mod culture, which was the stepping stone for some of the greatest British pop artists of all […]
