Indigenous Artist in Residence, Noongar woman Bumpy. Image: RM REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 18 – 27 October 2024 Each concert has stories. Each listener finds their own. Each player shares some of what brought them to the stage – some of that journey. Do festivals have stories? Yes, but only in the way patrons (and reviewers) collate cues and clues along the way. After … Continue reading No Herbie, but plenty of telling stories
REVIEW Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival3 – 10 December 2023 The Jazzlab Synchronicity – it turns out on checking the definition – was the wrong word to sum up outings in this year’s MWIJF, though that initially came into my addled brain. A better word may be reciprocity, but more of that later. Synchronicity – “a simultaneous occurrence of events that appear related but have … Continue reading A thread opens, snails outpaced
PREVIEW Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival 2023 The Jazzlab It is appropriate that this year’s Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival will feature a live-streamed symposium bound to provide insights into a key feature of this year’s comprehensive program at The Jazzlab in Brunswick– vocalists. On Saturday 9 December, in a live-streamed session moderated by Australian pianist Andrea Keller – Head of Jazz and Improvisation at … Continue reading The voices have it
