LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL
PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 – 12, 2016 SOME of the main drawcards at this year’s festival are well-known knowns — Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Gary Bartz — but it’s a big program with plenty of other artists to be excited about. Stats don’t put flesh on the bones, but over 10 days the festival will stage 74 events involving 335 artists (75 international and 260 Australian), … Continue reading LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL
OF BIRD’S, BENNETTS AND BEYOND
REFLECTION Ravi Coltrane at Bird’s Basement, Singers Lane, Melbourne on Sunday, March 6, 2016 IT HAS been said often in recent months, but there’s a lot of live music happening in Melbourne, plenty of it being jazz / improvised. That can’t be bad. But as venues proliferate, the challenge remains to really get more Melburnians — and visitors to town — off their couches and out there listening, … Continue reading OF BIRD’S, BENNETTS AND BEYOND
LIVE A LITTLE WITH LIVE MUSIC
PREVIEWS Ben Winkelman Trio, The Salon, MRC, Melbourne, 11 March 2016 at 7pm It began in Perth, jumped to Portland and tonight the Ben Winkelman Trio National Tour 2016 arrives at Melbourne Recital Centre for a Melbourne Jazz Co-operative gig at 7pm. The tour, which takes in eight other cities after tonight, will launch the pianist / composer’s fourth album, The Knife, released in Australia … Continue reading LIVE A LITTLE WITH LIVE MUSIC