UK star Matthew Halsall on returning to Cork for the city's jazz festival

Matthew Halsall has been to the forefront of the recent resurgence in British jazz. After a triumphant gig in 2021, he's looking forward to being back on Leeside for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 

Matthew Halsall plays an afternoon gig and a night concert at the Everyman for Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. 

Matthew Halsall isn’t one to blow his own trumpet. But ask a knowledgeable jazz fan, and they will tell you the Manchester-based artist is a pioneering figure in the genre today. He runs the influential label Gondwana Records, which has put out material by Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet and Polish composer Hania Rani.

He’s also a successful composer and band leader in his own right. Halsall has released a series of acclaimed albums, including the recent An Ever Changing View, praised by the UK’s Guardian for mixing “ambient percussion and yearning melodies”. “Just what the doctor ordered,” agreed All About Jazz.