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THINGS HAPPEN — A FEW WORDS ON WANG

REVIEW: WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 ROGER MITCHELL attempts to sum up Australia’s major festival of improvised music in a few words WHEN Mike Nock’s New Quintet opened the 21st annual jazz festival at Wangaratta on Friday, the pianist told the audience, “This is jazz. Things happen.” It was good advice. The festival program had not seemed to promise as much as in recent years. But things … Continue reading THINGS HAPPEN — A FEW WORDS ON WANG

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REJAVANATION — THE JAVA QUARTET

CD REVIEW 3 stars JUSTIFIABLY The Java Quartet has many loyal fans. But will they follow bandleader Michael Galeazzi on his postgraduate research relating transcendental qualities of modal jazz (Miles, Coltrane) to traditional Hindustani music and modern dance electronica? Fans of digital culture may rave at the result, dubbed “jazz you can dare to dance to”, in which a hip-hop artist, vocalist, sarod and tabla … Continue reading REJAVANATION — THE JAVA QUARTET

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