Live music: ECM Weekend - Triskel Christchurch, Cork

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Hardwired into the very nature of jazz, right from its earliest beginnings, was a daring and compelling counterpoint between composition and improvisation, structure and freedom, personal expression and group dynamics. Over the course of the music’s past century or so, these forces have been in constant motion, continually being redefined and reimagined, often to thrilling effect and startling transformation.

It was some of these essential elements and energies that were explored during a few nights of fine music at Cork’s Triskel Christchurch, under the banner of the ECM Weekend. The second annual mini-festival dedicated to the renowned German independent record label ECM, the Weekend showcased world-class musicians whose playing miraculously defies genre, geography and generation.