UPTOWN’S WORTH CONSIDERING
PREVIEW Album launch, Uptown Jazz Cafe, Sunday, July 3 at 8pm Our perpetually smiling (currently caretaker) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has exhorted us to help make this country “agile”, by which I have taken him to mean that we must be readily adaptable to all sorts of changes … such as “no cuts” meaning lots of cuts, or copper wire NBN rather than fibre, or … Continue reading UPTOWN’S WORTH CONSIDERING
FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLLED IN 2016
NEWS Australian Jazz Bell Awards 2016 The word is well and truly out on this year’s winners of the Australian Jazz Bell Awards and the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame recipient. The awards ceremony at Bird’s Basement on Monday 20 June were photographed and filmed by so many that it was often difficult for those at the tables to catch sight of those handing over the … Continue reading FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLLED IN 2016
A WARM VIBE THAT JOY RADIATED
REVIEW A Brother Scratch and 30/70 Collective, The Reverence Hotel, Footscray, Saturday 4 June, 2016 at 8pm for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival I’m always keen to support live music in the western suburbs of Melbourne and the fact that Michael Tortoni, artistic director of the festival, has links to this part of town has brought a welcome stream of MIJF gigs over the past … Continue reading A WARM VIBE THAT JOY RADIATED