Kurt Elling, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Mica Paris, and a live orchestral rendition of Dr Dre’s classic hip-hop album 2001 were some of the highlights of the 42nd Guinness Cork Jazz Festival over the weekend.

A tear-inducing tribute to the human trafficking victims was among the highlights of Sinead O'Connor's magnificent gig in Cork, writes Aine Bonner.

From old-style vocalists to cutting edge innovators, there was some fine music to be heard at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

A guide to what's on for this weekend's Cork Jazz Festival.

In conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

Des O'Driscoll on the musicians Cork Jazz Festival down through the years.

London songstress Mica Paris’s show might be a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, but she isn’t at all interested in delivering an Ella Fitzgerald impression.

Cork has, rightly, for many years styled itself as a City of Festivals. Many, many other cites; many, many other communities, host many and varied festivals but not that many do so with such natural, unfettered gusto and enthusiasm.

Mica Paris kicks off the Cork Jazz Festival tomorrow night with a show featuring the songs of Ella Fitzgerald. She tells Ellie O’Byrne about her own rise to fame and her love of the American legend.

The international acts get most of the attention but Alan O’Riordan says there is no shortage of home-grown talent playing on Leeside this weekend.

The family-friendly parade will mix red-hot jazz bands with fiery Cork characters who will dance through the city streets in a dramatic musical procession.

Sue Rynhart sings at the Green Room in Cork Opera House on Saturday as part of Guinnness Cork Jazz Festival. She is from Dublin and is the mother of three boys.

As UK legend John Surman gets ready to play at Cork’s jazz fest, he tells Philip Watson about his well-travelled career and why he’s so angry about Brexit.

The 2019 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival was officially launched last night, with the 42nd incarnation of the event hosting a number of big names across the 70 city venues on the weekend of October 24-26.

Cork has enthusiastically promoted itself as a city of festivals for decades.

The woman credited with rejuvenating the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has been axed from her job.

One of Cork Business Association’s top awards went to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, which we are told now generates €40m for the city and the regional economy.

The director of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival would like to see the city centre become a designated festival zone next year, with key streets pedestrianised for the four-day music event.

A look back at some of the highlights from this year's festival.

All that jazz!

After almost a decade working in larger ensembles, Tord Gustavsen has made a return to the trio, the format in which he first made his name.

Jazz weekend at the Everyman really got into its stride on Saturday afternoon with Paul Booth and the Bansangu Orchestra.

Triskel’s annual mini-festival dedicated to the acclaimed German record label ECM moved this year, its fourth, from its regular slot at the end of November to the October Bank Holiday weekend, and a space within the wider Cork Jazz Festival.

At one point during the vibrant Dia De Los Muertos street parade that opened the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, the corpse of a woman lying in a coffin in an old black carriage-style hearse sprang suddenly to life and began clawing desperately at the glass windows.

One of the most ambitious undertakings of this year's Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has been to book three concerts at the City Hall, a sizeable new venue for the event. Rostered for the Saturday night slot was Laura Mvula, the British soul singer who burst on the scene in 2013 with her debut album Sing To The Moon.

Cork jazz fest continues to brighten the spirits of visitors and locals alike with buskers and musical acts taking to the streets of Cork city.

There’s no shortage of music options at the newly-expanded festival.

Des O’Driscoll looks back on the strange set of circumstances that led to the founding of the festival in 1978.

A parade of the dead has helped breathe new life into the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival.

Drum roll please — the grand dame of Cork hotels has unveiled a new bar, restaurant, and tea-room just in time for the city’s jazz festival which is expected to inject up to €35m into the local economy.

The bar in Cork’s Metropole Hotel has got itself all done-up for the Jazz Festival.

A New Orleans-inspired ‘day of the dead’ musical parade through the streets of Cork will bring the city’s Guinness Jazz Festival to life next week.

Sinead Dunphy is festival director of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

Maria Schneider has collaborated with Bowie and won a flock of Grammy awards. No wonder her orchestra's visit to Cork is being hailed as a coup for the upcoming jazz festival, writes Philip Watson

Following two sold out shows Live at the Marquee this summer, one of Ireland’s most successful DJs ever, Jenny Greene, returns to Cork to play a headliner at Cork Opera House on Sunday October 28 with special guests.

The Cork Guinness Jazz Festival’s new programme director, Sinead Dunphy, says she hopes to bring a more long-term approach to planning one of the city’s biggest annual events.

Two women enjoying the Cork Jazz Festival on MacCurtain St had the upset of having their handbags containing mobile phones and cash stolen from them.

Youngsters from the Cork Music Generation joining the New York Brass Band to play Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on the open-air stage in Emmet Place encapsulated an unofficial theme for this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz festival: The international musical connections the festival has built up over its 40-year history.

A party atmosphere kicked off the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival when large crowds thronged a free open-air concert, signalling the start of celebrations for the festival’s 40th birthday.

Up to 40,000 people are expected to jive their way through the 40th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this bank holiday weekend, with free open-air gigs, a jazz parade, and an open top jazz bus among the highlights.

With a Congolese heritage and a penchant for electronic r’n’b, Dublin singer Soulé is being hailed as one of the leading lights of an emerging scene in Ireland, writes Ed Power

The First Lady of Song played two memorable concerts at the jazz festival in 1980, writes Des O’Driscoll

A strange set of circumstances led Jim Mountjoy to suggest a jazz festival for Cork in 1978. Little did he know how his idea would snowball, writes Des O’Driscoll

We’ve delved into the archives to share some of our favourite stories from the last 40 years of the Cork Jazz Festival.