VIDEO: Marcus Miller lights up Everyman as Cork Jazz Festival highlight

Despite a dilution of the jazz content, there was quality music to be had in Cork, says Alan O’Riordan.

AT THE end of an enthralling session in the company of Ireland’s best side men, Dave Redmond (bass) and Kevin Brady (drums), and joined by US guitar great Peter Bernstein, pianist Phil Ware delivered a polite cri de coeur to a packed Triskel Christchurch.

He finished by inverting Frank Zappa’s famous quip about jazz (“It’s not dead, it just smells funny”), to proclaim, “It’s very much alive, and it smells lovely”.