A swing about the city

Difficult choices and an eclectic mix of genres didn’t stop Kieran Bohane from enjoying the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

AS Wallace Roney’s shrill trumpet faded away, the final curtain fell, bringing this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival to a close ’round about midnight at the Everyman Theatre on Sunday.

For most people this was the traditional ending — apart from the final fling on Monday — to the jazz weekend on Leeside. But this year things were a little different. As trumpets, trombones and saxophones blew hard and fast in the city’s many bars and hotels, the winds of change that have been steadily building over the past number of years were more evident than ever.