OF JAZZ HEROES AND HIGHLIGHTS
REVIEW / RAVE Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 to June 12, 2016 One of the most interesting conversations I’ve had during this jazz festival — and I’ve had a few, before and after attending 15 concerts — was about the jazz hero. The person I spoke to was a musician who said he wanted to move away from that approach or model in bands … Continue reading OF JAZZ HEROES AND HIGHLIGHTS
SADNESS LEAVE THIS PLACE
REVIEW Andrea Keller’s Transients I (Australia) Gary Bartz Quartet (USA/Australia) Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday 3 June 2016 7.30pm As Gary Bartz tells it, John Coltrane knew about him before he knew about Coltrane. Coltrane was working with R&B singer and saxophonist Bull Moose Jackson for two weeks in Baltimore and, when their second week was cancelled, they came to a jazz session at … Continue reading SADNESS LEAVE THIS PLACE
DO YOU LIKE YOUR MUSIC STRONG?
PREVIEW: Paul Grabowsky’s Moons of Jupiter, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, 8pm, Monday 30 May, 2016 If you don’t pale at the full force of Scott Tinkler‘s trumpah, or the extraordinarily rapid bow work of Erkki Veltheim, or the colossal keyboard antics of Paul Grabowsky, this music is for you. Not that there are not periods of lower intensity. But this is a monumental work … Continue reading DO YOU LIKE YOUR MUSIC STRONG?