Jazz at Johnstown with Cormac Kenevey, Dave Redmond, Johnny Taylor and Conor Murray

 

Legendary crooner

for Christmas jazz

 

Many Christmas jazz classics were written in America in the 1940s, a period which also gave birth to the American crooner, performers who could exude an effortlessly cool swagger.

Very quickly, these iconic crooners became renowned for their  Christmas songs and their music of choice to emphasise the yuletide spirit was more often than not, cool jazz.

The type of jazz, as temperatures drop and days grow short, in which festive melodies marry perfectly with the instrumentation and style of a tight quartet. None come tighter than this year’s Jazz at Johnstown Christmas act: the Cormac Kenevey Quartet.

Cormac, who guested last year with the RTE Concert Orchestra at the Christmas Miscellany at the National Concert Hall, has a winning way with a song which reminds us of the effortless cool of singers like Tony Bennett, caressing a festive lyric comfortably to make it his own.

Cormac is backed by one of the hottest jazz trios in the business: Johnny Taylor on piano; Conor Murry on drums and Dave Redmond on bass.

So, you better watch out and not miss out, the lush baritone of Cormac Kenevey is coming to town on Friday, December 12, at 8 p.m.