Jazz Guitarist / Electronica Producer
We had an absolute blast performing yesterday at Bray Jazz Festival! Great appreciative audience and it was wonderful to see plenty of young kids and adults there too! Very generous words here about Aengus Hackett Trio, huge thanks to wonderful jazz critic Philip Watson. "Flying multi-coloured musical flags for Ireland..(trio) featuring the first-call rhythm section … Continue reading Bray Jazz Festival
I am delighted to announce that my album Aengus Hackett Trio has been selected for the most extensive and comprehensive jazz critics poll in the world, The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll ! The full poll is curated by renowned critic Tom Hull and published in prestigious Boston arts magazine The Arts Fuse and … Continue reading Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll 2024
Irish Times jazz critic Philip Watson has selected my trio album as one of the top five Irish jazz albums of 2024! I'm in seriously heavy company, along with the mighty Mary Coughlan, Niwel Tsumbu, Sue Rynhart and Adjunct Ensemble. This is a huge recognition for me, I'm completely blown away! You can read the … Continue reading Irish Times – Top five Irish jazz albums of 2024
I am very chuffed that one of my favourite RTÉ radio presenters Peadar MacCurtain has chosen to include 'Jasper' from my trio album, on his Best of Irish Mixtape for 2024! In very good company too, so much amazing music has been released in Ireland this year. You can have a listen here on RTÉ2XM. … Continue reading Best of Irish Releases 2024 – RTÉ2XM
Looking forward to co-presenting the Jazz and Classical show with Richard Moore on Loughrea Community Radiothis Sunday at 9-11pm. I have a lovely playlist prepared both from my own output and my influences, and will also be chatting about an exciting upcoming event with Galway Music Residency on 9 Nov. You can tune in online … Continue reading Co-presenting community radio show
Delighted with this wonderful review of the trio record by Ian Patterson at All About Jazz! Lovely words about my bandmates Matthew Jacobson and Derek Whyte too. You can read the full review here.
Very chuffed with this lovely review of the album by UK Vibe! Truly humbled to be compared to serious jazz greats Pat Metheny, Lage Lund and Rotem Sivan 🤯Kind words by Steve Williams Heath, thanks so much! Full review below at ukvibe.org https://ukvibe.org/album_reviews/aengus-hackett-trio/
Very thrilled with the first review of the Aengus Hackett Trio album!Lovely words from Stephen Graham of UK jazz blog Marlbank. Truly humbled to be compared to the mighty Mary Halvorson and Eivind Aarset! 😯 "Tunes make you stick around. Best track is the electronics shrouded 'Gerrymandering' that has firm bass developmental scene setting from … Continue reading Album review
Leading Irish publication The Journal of Music have written an extremely positive review of my Penji EP! Here’s a nice extract: "Adopting the name of Penji for his solo project, Hackett appears to have taken his most interesting musical digression...in the process (Penji) has created a groove-laden sound that is augmented by weighty beats, shimmering … Continue reading ‘Up to the surface’ – Penji EP reviewed by Journal of Music
A friend of mine AKA Black Tongue Visual Media, made a beautiful video about me recently. It was the first in a series of featurettes on creative people in Galway and further afield. Check it out below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Uh_SXBKrU