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Wed 05 May 2007Fiddling at the edges of jazzWhat do you get when you mix a master jazz guitarist, an American playing Irish trad, and a virtuoso fiddle player? Martin Hayes and Bill Frisell explain the combination to Ray ComiskeyThe delays Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had in meeting up in Sleepless In Seattle were nothing to those experienced by Bill Frisell and Martin Hayes in finally getting together to make music - and that's despite the fact that they were both living in Bill Gates's home town. And it's ironic that, now, when this meeting of jazz and Irish traditional music is at last about to happen, in a one-off Irish tour organised by Note Productions, Hayes doesn't live in Seattle any more, having moved to Connecticut about 18 months ago.