IF ON A SUMMER EVE AN ENSEMBLE
PREVIEW: Network of Lines album launch, Melbourne Recital Centre’s Salon, 6pm Tuesday 11 February Tilman Robinson trombone/laptop, Peter Knight trumpet/laptop, Callum G’Froerer trumpet, Erkki Veltheim violin, Judith Hamann cello, Brett Thompson guitar/banjo, Berish Bilander piano, Sam Zerna bass, Hugh Harvey drums. Additional cello Melanie Robinson, additional percussion Joe Talia, Josh Barber and Tilman Robinson It’s very late to post about a performance the day before … Continue reading IF ON A SUMMER EVE AN ENSEMBLE
SPACE INVADERS DROP IN ON MELBS
PREVIEW: Sun Ra Arkestra, The Forum, Sunday January 18 at 7pm The Abbott Government reckons it has stopped the boats, without really meaning to invade Indonesia’s space too much (oops!), but there’s no way Scott Morrison can stop the invasion that will hit the Forum on Sunday, January 18. Anyone who heard Sun Ra collaborator Marshall Allen leading the 10-piece Sun Ra Arkestra when last they landed in 2011 … Continue reading SPACE INVADERS DROP IN ON MELBS
WINE, WOMEN AND SONG — IT’S A DREAM DROP
CD REVIEW / MWIJF PREVIEW Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival: Martha Baartz Quintet Dream Drops CD launch, Wednesday 11 December 2013, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, 8.30pm Alto saxophonist Martha Baartz was lost to the Melbourne jazz scene when she returned to northern New South Wales a while ago after 12 years down south, but she has visited for MWIJF gigs in 2010 and 2011. This … Continue reading WINE, WOMEN AND SONG — IT’S A DREAM DROP