REVIEW 2019 Melbourne International Jazz Festival – May 30 to June 9 “If music’s not intense, it’s not good.” That throwaway line by a wonderful Melbourne musician came as an instant response to my summation of the Vijay Iyer Trio’s outing at The Jazzlab on Sunday, June 2 as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. In the trio’s fourth outing at the festival, US … Continue reading IS INTENSE … IS GOOD?
Q&A The Mayor of Wangaratta, Cr Dean Rees, was quick to respond to these questions, put to him today (February 5), about the future of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, which has been postponed by a year until 2020: Ausjazz: In the Wangaratta Chronicle you were quoted as saying that the council would be staging a music festival in November this year that … Continue reading THE MAYOR’S PERSPECTIVE ON WANG
Ellen Kirkwood performs in [A]part with Gian Slater and Sandy Evans. Image: Roger Mitchell REVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, November 2-4, 2018 Music speaks for itself. That’s what visiting saxophonist from Holland, Yuri Honing – a man of few words – told the audience in Wangaratta’s Performing Arts Centre Theatre on Saturday night during his quartet’s second festival outing. He’s right, of course. The … Continue reading BEYOND, AND WITH, WORDS
