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
CD LAUNCH: Andrea Keller launches her latest album, Wave Rider, with her quartet and a string quartet at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, 7pm, Wednesday 20 November Pianist and composer Andrea Keller has taken music composed over the past three years and arranged it to include a string quartet comprising Erkki Veltheim violin, Helen Ayres violin, Matt Laing viola and Zoe Knighton cello. The launch … Continue reading QUARTETS MAKE WAVES
ARTICLE Andrea Keller talks about her new album, Family Portraits, which she launches on Friday 24 May at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre The lives of those who we have loved and lost return to us in fragments. A photograph, a smell or a familiar location may bring to mind a parent or grandparent. Unconsciously we may pay homage in our sayings, our favourite recipes … Continue reading TO MY FAMILY, WITH LOVE
