REVIEW: Mingus Amongst Us, Chapel Off Chapel, Monday 19 May, 8pm for Stonnington Jazz Possibly it’s a little flippant to ask this, but how many flautists does it take to unhinge a trumpet player? The answer, it seems, is three. So, in the second — and spectacular — set invoking the spirit of Charles Mingus, three of the nonet’s reeds players put down their saxes … Continue reading WELL MAY CHARLES MINGUS SAY AMEN TO THAT
PREVIEW: Stonnington Jazz, 15-25 May 2014 Joe Hockey says the age of entitlement is over, but he is wrong. Over the next few weeks there will be no deficit of live improvised music in Melbourne and that is only fitting. As promises are broken and voters wake up to exactly what terrible things they initiated by voting to stop the boats, we are entitled to … Continue reading THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT IS BACK
CD REVIEW CD launch: March 1, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne, 9pm THIS debut as leader by Tasmanian-born pianist Matt Boden, now living in Paris, closes with an endearingly slow-swinging version of Mingus’s tune Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love. With mates Leigh Barker on acoustic bass, Alastair McGrath-Kerr on drums and Gideon Brazil on tenor sax, Boden retains that mood in his Berlin-inspired Revaler Strasse. McGrath-Kerr’s 5am, … Continue reading MB4 — MATT BODEN QUARTET
