Jazz Articles

Louis Stewart / Egil Kapstad / Terje Venaas / Eyvind Olsen: Core Business

by Bev Stapleton
September 23, 2005

Given that music is one of Ireland's principal exports--be it rock from Van Morrison to U2, or the folk music that has found legions of followers across the globe--it's striking that there are so few international Irish jazz stars. Maybe the “craic" (and the porter) at those traditional sessions is so good that there's little incentive to lock yourself away learning jazz changes!The major exception, of course, is guitarist Louis Stewart, a veteran of the '60s Irish jazz ...