PICTORIAL REVIEW Concert 1: Concerto for Piano and Toy Band Michael Kieran Harvey with Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble Composed by Adam Simmons Thursday 2 March 2017, fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne By the time this post appears the second performance of this concerto will be over, but there will be two more chances to join the audience — on Saturday at 7.30pm and on Sunday … Continue reading CONFUCIUS SAY, GIVE MUSICIANS LIBERTY
PICTORIAL UPDATE: Way Out West plays Footscray Community Arts Centre, 7.30pm Tuesday 3 June for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival It was a significant milestone last night when Peter Knight‘s ensemble Way Out West played in Footscray at the venue in which the band — with a slightly different line-up — played its first gig 14 years ago. It was also significant in that the … Continue reading BREAKING NEW GROUND OUT WEST
REVIEW: The Sugarfoot Ramblers / Denis Ball-Eugene Ball Sextet, Chapel Off Chapel, Sunday 18 May, 2pm for Stonnington Jazz The Sugarfoot Ramblers played at Wangaratta last year in a festival that offered quite a lot of so-called classic jazz. I missed that gig, by graduates or current students of the jazz course at Monash University who shared a fondness for New Orleans Jazz led by … Continue reading TRADITIONAL LOVE’S LABOURS NOT LOST
