Cork Jazz Fest reviews: Triskel delights with Daniel Herskedal, Mas Exodus, and James Holden

The Guinness Jazz Festival programme has taken some flak this year from the jazz camp, but they would have had plenty to enjoy at Triskel on Saturday 

 Daniel Herskedal and his band at Triskel Arts Centre during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Darragh Kane

In a year when the ever-present tension between what’s jazz and what isn’t in the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival lineup appeared to reach breaking point, with few jazz acts at all among the headliners, Triskel Arts Center has once more provided a haven for improvised music and deep listening amid the festival fever in the surrounding streets.

 Whatever complaints jazz aficionados might have about the broader programme, Saturday at the Christchurch venue provided a satisfying day’s music, with three distinctive acts representing the kind of broad scope a modern jazz festival should always aim for.