Tributes to 'visionary' Cork Jazz Festival founder Jim Mountjoy

The worlds of music, the arts, and business unite in praise of Mr Mounjoy's 'fantastic outlook' after he passed away this weekend 

Jim Mountjoy and Pearse Harvey (centre) accompanying jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald from her plane at Cork Airport in 1980 when she arrived to perform at the Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Irish Examiner Archive

Founder of the Cork Jazz Festival, Jim Mountjoy, was a "visionary" who leaves a legacy which will be felt for generations to come, business and community leaders have said following his death on Saturday.

Tributes have poured in for the man who had the idea for a mini-festival in 1978 to mark a newly declared bank holiday.