As the Cork Jazz Festival turns 40, Richard Fitzpatrick asked a few familiar faces to share their fondest memories of the famous festival. 

Alan O’Riordan had mixed feelings about the programme at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival got into full swing last night on a weekend which will see almost 1,000 musicians from 18 countries performing in various venues around the city.

JAZZ FESTIVAL: The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is already under way, and choruses of ‘not as good as it was’ will (mostly) be drowned out by a whole new generation of revellers at the wide range of offerings.