PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, November 3 – 5, 2017 The 28th Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues will be the first without Adrian Jackson at the helm as artistic director. Instead, the programming team consists of Adam Simmons and Zoe Hauptmann for jazz, and Scott Solimo and Frank Davidson for blues. This change led to some understandable concern on the part of … Continue reading WANGARATTA 2017: JAM-PACKED JAZZ
GIG PREVIEW Jacam Manricks Quartet (New York/Sydney/Melbourne), Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, 8.30pm Tuesday 20 August 2013, courtesy of the Melbourne Jazz C0-operative What a line-up. Jacam Manricks is visiting from New York to promote his album Cloud Nine, which was recorded in 2011 in Brooklyn with David Weiss on trumpet, Adam Rogers on guitar, Sam Yahel on organ and Matt Wilson on drums. They play … Continue reading HEY MAN*, IT’S MANRICKS
REVIEW: Christopher Hale’s Sylvan Coda, presented by the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, 9 pm Tuesday 12 February 2013 This was a fantastic gig — one that will long sustain those who were there to hear it and cause those who missed out to wish they had managed to make it. Sylvan Coda live demonstrated the power of performers who are right there … Continue reading AUDIENCE APPLAUSE A FITTING CODA
