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

MUSIC NEWS: Despite still being in the midst of an extensive Joshua Tree tour, U2’s release of a new song earlier this week shows the band are not planning to stand still any time soon.

The City of Light is also the city of the night — the city of the poor, outcasts, criminals, prostitutes, eccentrics and the wilfully nonconforming. TP O’Mahony leafs through Luc Sante’s salute to his beloved Paris

LAURA Jurd is one of the most remarkable young musicians to emerge in Britain in many years.

 

Martin Hayes is from Co Clare and his various musical projects include being a member of The Gloaming. He describes music as “my life, its my passion, my hobby and my career”. Hayes performs in concert with Paul Brady, Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Altan and dancer Colin Dunne at the Blas Summer School 20th anniversary concert at the University Concert Hall Limerick on Sunday.

It’s as if this year, the 24-hour channels have effectively turned into around-the-clock tribute-obituary shows.

A round-up of all the best entertainment news

A round-up of all the best entertainment news

Des O’Driscoll shares five things to do this week in the world of arts

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Bill Laurance has taken a break from jazz heroes Snarky Puppy to work on some incredible solo

Don Cheadle stars in a Don Cheadle film written by Don Cheadle about Miles Davis. It's called Miles Ahead and the first trailer is here.

He had mixed feelings about some of the year’s big sellers, so music writer Ed Power selected a personal list of the best albums of 2015

Despite a stunning performance at the Isle of Wight that’s about to be released on DVD, Rory Gallagher had a mixed time in his seminal early band, writes Ed Power

MUSIC NEWS: You may have seen poor Florence Welch sitting on a stool for her performance with The Machine on Later With Jools on Tuesday (longer version on BBC Two tonight). Apparently she broke her foot while leaping off the stage at the Coachella festival in the US. 

Tell me again what pride comes before? Well, almost… Brendan’s in a good place right now, and the Miles Davis of own-trumpet-blowers wasn’t slow in telling everyone.

Rose Mary Roche explores the theory that character, from which genuine coolness is derived, is much more fascinating than pure good looks. Faddy fashions peak and then die while genuine cool is consistent and enduring.

A Florida woman has become the fourth in recent weeks to accuse veteran actor Bill Cosby of giving her pills that made her feel groggy, then forcing himself on her.

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Boxing: Bernard Hopkins has warned you might not see his like again ahead of his light-heavyweight unification match against Sergey Kovalev tomorrow night-

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

Jazz album:Marius Neset/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

Tune into BBC1 at 10.35pm tonight as Graham Norton is joined by Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe, screen siren Cameron Diaz, and comic actor and director Richard Ayoade. Plus music from the queen of pop, Kylie Minogue.

As a lifelong fan of classical guitar legend John Williams, he’d always have been at the top of my all-time wish-list of interviewees.

IN ITS 35 years, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has grown and broadened so far beyond its roots that it’s possible most years to preview it on two fronts: from the point of view of the jazz aficionado, and the perspective of the general music fan.

Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix’s sudden death in 1970.

If the late David Foster Wallace had been interested in hurling, instead of being some class of tennis fan who preferred to write about Roger Federer, he might have found his ideal subject yesterday in Croke Park.

Quirky Danish band Efterklang play in Dublin and Cork next weekend.

Does music’s referencing its own past stifle the rise of anything truly original, Carl Dixon asks rock writer Simon Reynolds

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

I STAND in the porch outside Andreas Varady’s house.

Munster SFC Semi-Final replay

Snoop Dogg thinks Tom Cruise wants to be him.

FREDDIE HUBBARD, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, has died.

DEMOCRATIC nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama is sharing one his most valuable assets — his top fundraisers — with former rival Hillary Clinton to help her pay off her debt, the latest effort to heal the wounds of a bruising primary campaign.

FOR the second year in a row, the Edge is putting his money where the music is.

Italian movie star Marcello Mastroianni, David Bowie, Steve McQueen, Bob Dylan and George Clooney have been named among the 50 Most Stylish Men in the Past 50 Years by men's magazine GQ.

HILLY KRISTAL, whose rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads, has died after a battle with lung cancer, his son said yesterday. He was 75.

Hilly Kristal, whose rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads, has died after a battle with lung cancer, his son said today. He was 75.