PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 – 12, 2016 SOME of the main drawcards at this year’s festival are well-known knowns — Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Gary Bartz — but it’s a big program with plenty of other artists to be excited about. Stats don’t put flesh on the bones, but over 10 days the festival will stage 74 events involving 335 artists (75 international and 260 Australian), … Continue reading LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL
WRAP-UP REVIEW: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2014, 30 May to 8 June So far for this year’s MIJF I’ve posted previews, pictorial updates and reflections that have sometimes ended up as mini reviews. But the intention was to leave most of the reviewing until the festival was over. So, I can report that I went to 23 concerts, counting each set of two double bills … Continue reading MANY HIGHLIGHTS, MANY FROM CLOSE TO HOME
COMING GIG: 9pm, Friday, July 8, Dizzy’s Jazz Club, 381 Burnley St, Richmond Sonya Veronica vocals, James Sherlock guitar, Howard Cairns double bass and Gideon Marcus drums. Sonya Veronica has requested that Ausjazz blog mention her performance on Friday night at Dizzy’s. Ausjazz blog has yet to catch Sonya in performance, but the names Howard Cairns and James Sherlock are a great recommendation that this … Continue reading James Sherlock joins Sonya Veronica
