So, now we are back from Cork after some fabulous days of Jazz, enjoyment and amazing nature…
It all started Friday with Carla Cook
and Michel Legrand (just check out the Oscars and other prices he got for his work)
Both are famous, well known, yet a wee bit too much show for our liking. The music was ok, but not the best you can imagine…
Around Cork you find plenty of entertainers, trying to make a living as well
Some of them really good!
So next day (Saturday) we opted out to find another concert (this time in a much smaller venue) and were totally mesmerized by the Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project – http://www.lulo-reinhardt-project.de/). He is the great-cousin of world famous Django Reinhardt and an extremely good musician with an amazing repertoire.
The club was very cosy
Lulo at the guitar
The drummer does a kind of “Skat” singing (Indian music)
And the violin was the “fiddler in the dark”
Double-bass was played by Harald Becher
Nice way of doing condom advertisements
Very stylish… a spermobile
In the evening the next concert started with Ed Cherry & The Bruce Barth Trio
All amazing musicians
Ed Cherry
This time at the side
And now Dianna Reeves
Again very poppy, American and showy – so not so much our cup of tea…
Showtime
Sunday we were heading for a small concert once more and were lucky to get tickets for the Triskel Christchurch – a converted church. First came the Vanbrugh Quartet (http://vanbrughquartet.com/) – actually a classical music quartet, but they played wonderful pieces by Maurice Ravel (String quartet – 1902) and Peter Schickele (String Quartet No. 1) – both classical with heavy Jazz influences.
For those of the non-faint hearted… Here is Ravel:
The second part were Italian classical pieces from the 16th century converted into Jazz format with a wonderful singer… Really 1st class!
He (Francesco Turrisi) plays and composes very nice!
Here is an example:
What do you do with some 3 h between 2 shows while in Cork? Eat & drink…
The good thing is that in most pubs there is good live music as well
And the waiters are costumed
Especially interesting if they don’t like the shot
Bars are cosy places
As it is Guinness Jazz Festival most pubs only serve Interbrew beverages (Guinness, Carlsberg, Heineken, Smithwicks, …), so this one here was a nice deviation
And this one as well. With the kind of food you get there you need some colour solver…
The following concert with Carmen Lundy was world class again
Her keyboarder is a Grammy winner as well
And her show really cool
A bit less, please…
Perfect double-bass
Wonderful! She looks relieved
As it was a double feature again the 2nd part – where we were not allowed to take pictures – was even better.. Ginger Baker and Pee Wee Ellis – outstanding!
Afterwards (it’s around 23:00 now) the streets are filling with the usual people going out in Cork
Security checks (age…) are very tight
And we just enjoyed ourselves
Watching the dress code
and various costumes
or not so much dress-code
legs are growing again this year
And the Gardai helping and protecting
Everybody contributes
to the show
and enjoys it obviously
In the end we had some time left so we were heading for our favourite spot – the West Coast…
Beautiful weather made it even better…
and our trip became an outstanding impression
A teeny bit too wet for walking without proper shoes
with magnificent countryside
endless
peat cutting
and again Nothing – but loads of it
Shy
The road to nowhere
comes from nowhere
it’s getting massive now
the and road just slopes through
sunny patches
and misty hillsides
cause instant admiration
These sharp images, the difference
make the landscape so special
As you continue it changes again and gets woodier
Old oaks and beeches
With patches of sunshine
create stunning images with
amazing colours
Due to the recent rains the rivers are all quite loaded
And fast running
Wonderful impressions
And the colours where just awesome
Yarrow is beautiful and so much searched for by bees
Even further down the road the coast gets closer
and suddenly is there
amazing landscapes
I just love these views
They are so diverse and beautiful
You can’t stop looking
Water created small rivulets
and patches of land
Before it gets really, really rocky
With the low sun the colours started to glow
and the pink stones were just outstanding
Reflections everywhere
And tidal pool inhabitants
A roadside
with strange markings – quite for sure some old art artefacts
Evening is coming
and sunset close
the last rays…
Rivers cut through the toughest stone
And the ever present fisher
Yet some people really consider this not too cold…
Back towards Dublin we had a nice background view of Mount St. Patrick
Again in full view
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