Losing the shackles and all that jazz

IT’S said jazz came to America in chains as the native rhythms of imported slaves but it breaks free from all shackles of convention and tradition in this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

Every imaginable variation of jazz is on the four-day programme which is set to bring music, merriment and mayhem to the streets of the southern capital over the bank holiday weekend from October 22-25th.

Dixie jazz, Detroit jazz and Dublin jazz mix with European, African and Australian versions in a line-up of acts that has performers and influences taken from every corner of the globe.