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MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2011

THREE TURKS & A WASP / FRAN SWINN QUARTET & ROCKIE STONE: INFORM

Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival’s APRA Composer Commission Concert at BMW Edge, Friday May 6, 2011 Commission concerts are always a highlight of the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, but by their nature they involve taking risks. Whether it is Ren Walters carefully placing a group of musicians in the Iwaki Auditorium and giving them minimal guidelines in a work that could go anywhere, or Gian Slater … Continue reading THREE TURKS & A WASP / FRAN SWINN QUARTET & ROCKIE STONE: INFORM

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MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2011

THE OUTER LIMITS

Preview: Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, April 29 to May 8, 2011 Yes, the image above is unashamedly a bid to attract attention to this preview of this year’s MJFF, but in my defence it is the picture guitarist Mastaneh Nazarian chose to be used on the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival website, which is where all the details of this festival can be found. Nazarian, who … Continue reading THE OUTER LIMITS

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MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVALS 2009 & 2010

MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2010 — DAY 7

MOVEable Feast: Kings Artist Initiative The brainchild of Zoe Frater, this feast took us to two inner city galleries — Kings Artist Run Initiative in King St and Brood Box in Rankins Lane. The night began and ended with Bach. John Taylor Electric Guitar Quartet First up we heard the — shock horror — totally scripted and completely unimprovised The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst … Continue reading MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2010 — DAY 7

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