Missing the Cork Jazz Festival? Magic memories of ten classic gigs

It's the first October bank holiday since 1977 that the sound of jazz hasn't been belting out across Leeside. We look back on some of the performances that have made the event so special through the decades 

Revellers enjoy  Rent Party at the Country Club during the 1987 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

RONNIE SCOTT, 1978

For Cork jazz veterans, it’s an ‘I was there moment’ – the first gig of the first jazz festival. Event founder Jim Mountjoy recalled: