Colin Sheridan: Demonised by the Church, it's no wonder jazz caught on in Ireland

If there was ever a statement to inspire young men and women to dance, it was a priest describing jazz as 'borrowed from the African savages by the anti-God movement, with the object of destroying morals and religion'

Dubliner Louis Stewart may not be well known to music lovers now, but, in his heyday he was regarded as one of the finest jazz musicians in the world.

"Hot can be cool & cool can be hot & each can be both. But hot or cool man, jazz is jazz." — Louis Armstrong 

If history has taught us anything in this country, it is that if the Irish Catholic Church was against something in the first half of the 20th century, you should probably do it.