REVIEW: Jamie Oehlers Quartet featuring Robert Hurst — Jamie Oehlers saxophone, Robert Hurst bass, Tal Cohen piano, Jacob Evans drums — at Bennetts Lane, Melbourne, Friday, June 1 at 11pm for Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012 For reasons I don’t need to go into here I have been attending some career transition courses at work. One tip the instructor gave — and this has nothing … Continue reading SURF’S UP, BUT I’M NOT
REVIEW: Bernie McGann Quartet — Marc Hannaford piano, Bernie McGann alto sax, Phillip Rex bass, Dave Beck drums — at Bennetts Lane, Melbourne, Friday, June 1 at 8pm for Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012 When you think about it, there’s a hell of a lot of saxophonists in this year’s MIJF. The revered Bernie McGann‘s 75th birthday celebration was the first of the Club Sessions … Continue reading ON BERNIE’S BIRTHDAY, IN WALKED BUD
Ausjazz blog interviews Tim Stevens before the launch of his new solo album, Life’s Undertow, at 8pm in South Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday, May 26. In music and in art, indeed in life, the act of creating is surely marvelous. It is a cause for great wonder, at least to the unschooled observer. But what I find so awesome in a musical performance may … Continue reading TIM STEVENS — THE UNSENTIMENTAL BLOKE
