FIRST, SHE TAKES MELBOURNE

PREVIEW Chris McNulty Quartet (Australia/US), The Jazzlab, Friday 4 August and Saturday 5 August, 8pm Australian-American jazz vocalist Chris McNulty is giving two back-to-back performances in Melbourne next month before embarking on a world tour. The award-winning singer/composer will introduce her new trio — Darrin Archer piano, Hiroki Finn Hoshino bass and Aaron McCoullough drums — to Melbourne audiences in two concerts at Melbourne’s newest … Continue reading FIRST, SHE TAKES MELBOURNE

REVERBERATIONS OF SOUND

REVIEW: Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2017 KAGE: Out of Earshot, 7.30pm, June 1, 2017 at Chunky Move, 111 Sturt Street, South Melbourne What a change to review a performance that is not a one-off. The dance group KAGE, which was established in 1997 by Victorian College of the Arts dance graduates Kate Denborough and Gerard Van Dyck, will present this dance theatre  many times during the … Continue reading REVERBERATIONS OF SOUND

JAZZ STRIPPED NAKED — WELL, ALMOST

REVIEW: Wangaratta Jazz 2014 Ausjazz samples 25 concerts in the 25th year of the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival and finds many expectations fulfilled and many unexpected moments of magic The 1948 film entitled The Naked City closed with the line, “There are eight million stories in the Naked City and this has been one of them.” Well, one story to come out of the Wangaratta Jazz and … Continue reading JAZZ STRIPPED NAKED — WELL, ALMOST