23 October 2021 Cork Ireland getting ready for annual Guinness Jazz festival weekend

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions.

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As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed near the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.

The mid-1950s saw the emergence of hard bop, which introduced influences from rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing. Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation, as did free jazz, which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock music's rhythms, electric instruments, and highly amplified stage sound. In the early 1980s, a commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz.

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From big brass bands to solo sax players, visiting international musicians will be popping up all over the city.

Here’s where to catch the best street and unticketed performances:

1. The Big Jazz Bus

You can’t miss it; the open-top Big Jazz Bus makes a welcome return to the festival from Friday on and will tour the city until Sunday with lively bands on board. Listen out; you’ll hear it coming.

2. Jazz on the Plaza

Visiting international bands will tour through the city throughout the weekend, performing on the super dome stage at Emmet Place as part of Jazz on the Plaza.

Look out for New York Brass, Hyde Park Brass Band, Brass Kings, TBL8 Brass, Stomptown Brass along with Cork’s own Code of Behaviour, Rebel Brass, the Barrack Street Band and Blarney Concert Band who will perform at Daunt’s Square.

3. Harley Street Line-Up

For the first time ever this year, the city’s Victorian Quarter will stage the Harley Street Line-Up, with jazz spilling out of each venue on MacCurtain Street throughout the day from noon.

Pop along and grab a taco to go, then enjoy Voiceworks Indie Choir/The Cosmics, the Victorian Quarter All Star Jazz Quartet, Cork SM Saxophone Jazz Quartet, the Alison Ronayne Jazz Trio and more.

4. Afternoon jazz at The Met

No trip to the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival would be complete without a visit to the famous Guinness Cork Jazz Festival Club at the Metropole Hotel, which holds its place as the beating heart of the festival, staging free jazz shows for all the family on Saturday, Sunday and Monday afternoon, with ticketed shows each evening.
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