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WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010

WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 — IAN DATE QUARTET

GIG: St Patrick’s Hall, 4pm, October 30 Ian Date guitar, Nigel Date guitar, Howard Cairns double bass, Ian Cooper violin WHAT a quick trip — from Japan to the Hot Club of France in a few easy steps. With a sense of fun and much agility on strings, Date’s quartet ushered us into the world of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, into gypsy jazz and … Continue reading WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 — IAN DATE QUARTET

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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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