Ronnie Scott’s squares the circle on 40 years of Jazz

Cork’s long-running jazz festival provided a mix of old and new sounds, writes Alan O’Riordan

It was fitting for the 40th instalment of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival that there was rather more of the titular music to be heard in the Metropole Hotel, where it all began, than in recent years.

This was in large part due to a Ronnie Scott’s strand, part of a new link-up with the famed London club run by the late saxophonist who also played Cork’s first jazz festival at the Metropole back in 1978.