There’s no one quite like Peter Brötzmann, the fiery German reedist who continues to exert a global influence on free jazz, improv and avant rock alike.

Brötzmann as a young man was a painter aligning himself with the Fluxus movement. But it was music particularly from 1968’s octet album Machine Gun on that he would best make his considerable presence felt particularly on the European free jazz movement and global community of improvisers that took their cues from late-period Coltrane, and the music of Albert Ayler. And it’s a rare chance for an Irish audience to hear the Brötz in the flesh in Dublin at the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall in duo with Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth on 22 January.
• Brötzmann, with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, a week later play club dates at east London venue Cafe Oto from 27-29 January