REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1 – 10 June 2018 Paul Grabowsky AO wrote Tokyo Overpass with Haruki Murakami’s novel IQ84 as inspiration — the story of a young woman who climbs down a ladder from an elevated highway when her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam and enters a parallel universe. That could be a metaphor for this festival’s engrossing opening concert, The … Continue reading SUSTENANCE FOR THE SOUL
MIJF GALLERY The Gravity Project, Friday 1 June, 7pm, The Jazzlab, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2018 It’s a little early, perhaps, but I’m already declaring one concert on the opening night to be a festival highlight. It was The Gravity Project in which Paul Grabowsky on piano and Rob Burke on saxophone joined shakuhachi master Masaki Nakamura, koto virtuoso Kuniko Obina and Tokyo-based Aaron Choulai on laptop … Continue reading GRAVITY IN PICTURES
PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1-10 June, 2018 The 21st MIJF, which over 10 days in almost 100 events will feature almost 400 Australian, international and emerging artists, is only a day away. Already many concerts — An Evening with Branford Marsalis and Sun Ra Arkestra at Melbourne Recital Centre, and the 7pm outing by Nubya Garcia at The Jazzlab — are sold out. A … Continue reading STANDING ROOM ONLY
