Poetry in motion — and all that jazz

Christine Tobin’s ninth album is a selection of WB Yeats’s work set to music. Nicki ffrench Davis elaborates

DUBLIN-BORN jazz musician Christine Tobin’s ninth album, Sailing to Byzantium, is a re-imagining of a selection of WB Yeats’s best-loved poems.

Tobin’s album won the Contemporary Jazz Composition category at the 2012 British Composer Awards in December.