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

In conversation with Richard Fitzpatrick.

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.

All that jazz!

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

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.

Tord Gustavsen’s Nordic leanings could help produce one of the gigs of the jazz weekend, writes Alan O’Riordan.

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

“Woodwind instrumentalist, composer, and music producer” is how Seán Mac Erlaine is described on his official website. That doesn’t shed much light. Nor, to be blunt, does the Dubliner’s (admittedly playful) assertion that he is a “jazz saxophone player who doesn’t play saxophone or jazz”.

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.

Cork’s long-running jazz festival provided a mix of old and new sounds, writes Alan O’Riordan

Nicholas Payton is looking forward to bringing his boundary bursting tunes to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this weekend, writes Ed Power.

It’s that time of year again: the nights are getting longer, the days are getting cooler, and Cork is gearing up to celebate its 40th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

David Lyttle’s US journey was more of a jazz-playing road-trip than a conventional music tour. Along the way he played at Art Blakey’s house and used an assault rifle as a percussion instrument, writes Alan O’Riordan

Joey Alexander is just 14, but he’s already being hailed as one of the brightest new stars in jazz, writes Alan O’Riordan

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Just jazzin' around.

Well, as good as you can expect for October in Ireland.

David Lyttle from Co Down was the first ever Irish musician to be nominated for a Music of Black Origin Award (MOBO). The awards take place next Wednesday and will be broadcast on ITV2. Lyttle was nominated in the best jazz act on the back of his Faces album, which features collaborations with the likes of Talib Kweli and Duke Special.

Honda sales are going really well here in Ireland now — the company had a 73% increase month-on-month in July when compared to last year — with strong growth recorded in the updated 2015 Civic (+79%) and CR-V (+169%). 

Alice Barker was a dancer in the 1930s and 1940s and danced with Fran Sinatra and Gene Kelly

WITH the May weekend fast approaching we thought we should make a bit of a song and dance about the fact today is International Dance Day and tomorrow, International Jazz Day.

It was almost lost due to a lack of funding and resources but, in a triumph of people-power, the eighth edition of the Ballydehob Jazz Festival will be launched this week.