Pianist, composer and arranger Cormac McCarthy directing the brass section of the Cork School of Music Jazz Big Band in the Curtis Auditorium at the school. Photograph: John Cronin
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Various venues
★★★★☆
The Canadian jazz writer John Kelman had a single yardstick to measure whether a jazz festival is actually, in fact, a jazz festival. “Can you attend the event for its entire run,” he once wrote, “ignore the non-jazz programming, and still be immersed in a broad cross-section of jazz each and every day, even facing difficult choices about what you decide to see?”
By that criterion, despite the plethora of soul, funk, hip-hop and Afrobeat acts in this year’s line-up, and the proudly proclaimed “jazz-free zone” of concerts at Cork City Hall, this year’s Gu
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