Louis Stewart JOYCE NOTES

JOYCE NOTES is the recording of Irish guitarist Louis Stewart’s six-part suite based on scenes from James Joyce’s groundbreaking novel, Ulysses, performed at the Cork Jazz Festival in 1982 by an Irish-American octet with readings from Dublin-born actor Eamon Morrissey. Though not renowned as a composer, in JOYCE NOTES Stewart produced an artistically bold and adventurous work, merging jazz composition with modern literature. Both he and Livia Records founder, Gerald Davis were Joyce enthusiasts and conceived the suite to coincide with the centenary of Joyce’s birth in 1982.