Archive for the ‘Jazz’ Category

Vincent Herring

Monday, December 4th, 2006 Posted in Cork Jazz Festival, Jazz, Live Music, Photography | No Comments »

Vincent Herring and his band played in the Legends room in the Metropole at the Cork Jazz Festival.  I was flying through the rooms taking as many photos as possible but these guys were class. Pictures from the jazz festival can ...

10th Avenue Jazz Band at Cork Jazz Festival

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 Posted in B&W, Cork Jazz Festival, Ireland, Jazz, Live Music, Music, Photography | No Comments »

The 10th Avenue Jazz Band were playing on the Friday night in the Metropole Hotel.  They played some excellent stuff, obviously seasoned pros at this.  It was only afterwards that I spotted the musical tie above, I'd love a tie ...

The Bones of Cork

Monday, November 6th, 2006 Posted in Cork Jazz Festival, Ireland, Jazz, Live Music, Music, Photography | 2 Comments »

The Bones of Cork, who consist of 5 trombonists (hence the name!) plus a few more intsruments, played at the Cork Jazz Festival in the Metropole on Friday night the 27th October. It was a great way to start ...

Do Cork People Jazz?

Friday, October 27th, 2006 Posted in Ireland, Jazz | 5 Comments »

Seeing as it's the Jazz Festival weekend, I wonder if many Cork people actually enjoy jazz? Or do you just get out of the city? Here's a post I put on the Peoples Republic of Cork forum during ...

Big Band Sound of the Roaring Forties

Thursday, October 26th, 2006 Posted in Ireland, Jazz, Live Music, Music, Photography | 1 Comment »

Well it's coming to the end of the Roaring Forties week but you can go see them tonight in the Savoy.  I'm leaving the camera at home for this gig but expect to see a whole pile of jazz pictures from ...