Aleka: Person I Knew review – Romanian singer recruits who’s-who for fine debut

The Dublin-based vocalist displays courage, confidence and technical skill

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

Pop-up jazz supergroup in Kilkenny: this week’s best jazz gigs

Chris Guilfoyle’s Superumbra. Plus: Súp, Maya Youssef and Camille O’Sullivan

A melting pot: this week’s must-see jazz gigs

From Ethiopian hybrid jazz to Michael Buckley’s new Thursday-night residency

Going out this weekend, here’s the jazz

Cormac Larkin selects some of the best bands and events around the country

Dancing on the ceiling and swinging on the sofa: this week’s jazz gigs

This week, we look at some of the best jam and regular jazz sessions happening around the country

The best jazz gigs to see this week

Blue Sky Music and Contempoary Jazz at Arthurs, 100 world musicians at the 13th Sligo Jazz Project and the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys play the Sugar Club

Magnus Öström: ‘It’s stupid to be a drummer and have your own band’

After his friend and EST bandmate Esbjörn Svensson died in 2008, Öström stopped playing music. Three solo albums later, he is getting used to being a frontman

Ronan Guilfoyle: Hands | Album review

12 Points festival is ‘a long way from three chords and the truth’

Jazz has become a ‘super-broad church’ and is no longer the preserve of middle-aged men, says Kenneth Killeen, the director of the four-day Dublin festival