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The triple Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant makes music that’s restlessly experimental and entirely her own
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Samara Joy in Dublin: The young jazz star who earned a standing ovation from Adele, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
The Grammy winner, who performs at the National Concert Hall this month, only has to sing a note or two for you to realise how exceptional she is
‘All roads lead to Cork’ for return of jazz festival
Covid restrictions don’t kill the buzz after musicians ‘come home’ following year hiatus
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Gershwin and Dorothy Parker: This week’s jazz highlights
One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage
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Clicks, beeps and hisses: the music of the 1969 moon landing
Radio chatter from the Apollo 11 landing still sounds like science fiction 50 years on
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The cherry tree in bloom reminds me of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone
Striking a balance between surrendering the garden to nature and precision strimming
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival director has ‘contract terminated’ after a year
Sinéad Dunphy’s first programme, in October 2018, was widely regarded as a success
New artist of the week: Fia Moon
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Fears for future of Cork Jazz Festival as programmer’s contract is not renewed
Title sponsor Diageo made decision, says festival chair
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Cork Jazz Festival draws 40,000 fans and 1,000 musicians
Event started in 1978 as a last-minute replacement for cancelled bridge tournament
Cork jazz festival born out of cancelled bridge convention
Guitarist Larry Correll and New Orleans drummer Jason Marsalis among highlights
Brian Boyd: Why I sometimes pretend that I am not Irish on my holidays
What we have to endure from ill-informed foreigners is tantamount to a hate crime in today’s language
Swelter belters - 10 hot tunes to soundtrack the meltdown
On the hottest day of the summer, here’s a hot countdown of 10 sultry classics
Melody Gardot: ‘Music activates the brain at a high level’
Gardot began writing songs as therapy after a serious accident left her with memory and speech problems
Junior Cert music covers U2, Ella Fitzgerald and John Lennon
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Pieces of me: Lindsey Holmes, PR consultant
Lindsey Holmes’s house in Sandymount in Dublin contains a mixture of modern and old, bargain finds and antiquities
Laura Slattery: Time to adjust your media devices to new year resolutions
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Snake Eaters review: A soldier’s story gets lost in cliche
Among the three or so plays struggling to get out, an interesting human story is lost
USA breaks: City slickers
It’s been a busy summer for Fionn Davenport, as he criss-crossed the United States. Here are three of his favourite cities to visit
How the drug-like voice of Lotte Lenya led me to Kurt Weill
I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife
Nile Rogers and Chic pay tribute to Cork Jazz Festival
“Cork was the first in Ireland to book Chic at a concert. Tonight we came back and it was spectacular”
Beatlemania: the Fab Four’s Irish concerts, 50 years on
Dublin had already hosted JFK in 1963, but nothing prepared the city for the arrival of four mop-top lads from Liverpool – and the riots and hysteria that followed
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
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