HEY MAN*, IT’S MANRICKS
GIG PREVIEW Jacam Manricks Quartet (New York/Sydney/Melbourne), Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, 8.30pm Tuesday 20 August 2013, courtesy of the Melbourne Jazz C0-operative What a line-up. Jacam Manricks is visiting from New York to promote his album Cloud Nine, which was recorded in 2011 in Brooklyn with David Weiss on trumpet, Adam Rogers on guitar, Sam Yahel on organ and Matt Wilson on drums. They play … Continue reading HEY MAN*, IT’S MANRICKS
KEEP THIS NIGHT CLEAR FOR BERNIE
GIG: Benefit concert for Bernie McGann, Sunday 1 September, 2013, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, organised by Melbourne Jazz Co-operative This is one of my favourite pictures of Bernie McGann. I have plenty of others in which he is blowing up a storm, his brow covered in sweat, or gently transporting us with a ballad. But this picture shows Bernie seated, as is his habit, listening … Continue reading KEEP THIS NIGHT CLEAR FOR BERNIE
WHEN KEITH JARRETT COMPLAINED
REVIEW Sarah McKenzie Quartet and Silo String Quartet, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Friday 16 August 2013 Sarah McKenzie piano, vocals; Hugh Stuckey guitar; Hugh Harvey drums; Tamara Murphy bass Aaron Barnden violin, Andrea Keeble violin, Ceridwen Davies viola, Caerwen Martin cello There’s a story in every gig, and in this outing it came in the second set, when we learned that we would be treated to … Continue reading WHEN KEITH JARRETT COMPLAINED