TRADITIONAL LOVE’S LABOURS NOT LOST
REVIEW: The Sugarfoot Ramblers / Denis Ball-Eugene Ball Sextet, Chapel Off Chapel, Sunday 18 May, 2pm for Stonnington Jazz The Sugarfoot Ramblers played at Wangaratta last year in a festival that offered quite a lot of so-called classic jazz. I missed that gig, by graduates or current students of the jazz course at Monash University who shared a fondness for New Orleans Jazz led by … Continue reading TRADITIONAL LOVE’S LABOURS NOT LOST
BRASIL PACKS THE HOUSE
REVIEW: SEXTETO ZONA SUL/PANORAMA DO BRASIL at Stonnington Jazz, 8pm 17 May 2014 at Chapel Off Chapel Brazilian choro (pronounced shoro) and maxixi (mashishi) were new to me, so I was hoping that the music would be accompanied by some explanations of the musical forms. I was not disappointed. The Chapel Off Chapel space was packed to hear Doug de Vries as an engaging advocate for the … Continue reading BRASIL PACKS THE HOUSE
THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT IS BACK
PREVIEW: Stonnington Jazz, 15-25 May 2014 Joe Hockey says the age of entitlement is over, but he is wrong. Over the next few weeks there will be no deficit of live improvised music in Melbourne and that is only fitting. As promises are broken and voters wake up to exactly what terrible things they initiated by voting to stop the boats, we are entitled to … Continue reading THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT IS BACK