Cork Jazz Festival reviews: Marilyn Mazur, Michael Buckley, Amadou & Mariam

A percussion legend and a Grammy-winning African duo featured among the Saturday highlights of Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2024 

Amadou & Mariam at  Cork Opera House as part of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Darragh Kane

Marilyn Mazur Special 4, Triskel Christchurch 

The American-born Danish percussionist Marilyn Mazur has a pedigree like few other artists who’ve come to Cork this year, having played with the likes of Jan Garbarek, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and many more over five decades. She’s here on the last leg of her Music Network tour of Ireland, flanked by Jakob Buchanan on flugelhorn, Makiko Hirabayahshi on piano, and Klavs Hovman on double bass. “Special 4” they call themselves, and it proves an accurate label through an expansive and engrossing show.