ALBUM LAUNCH: The Monash Sessions: Enrico Rava, Thursday 30 October at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club in Melbourne It has become a tradition for Monash University to arrange for its students of improvised music to learn from some of the world’s great jazz musicians, either by having them visit or by taking the students overseass. The results of these working sessions have resulted in significant recordings … Continue reading AN ITALIAN COLLABORATION
CD REVIEW 4 stars Jazzhead Liminal opens with a closing. Saarelaht sums up Closing, written for a surgeon to whom he sent the piece, but from whom he never heard back, with the succinct subtitle “having dealt with a point infarct”. I had to look that up, but this piece feels more substantial than the eradication of “a small localised area of dead tissue resulting from failure … Continue reading LIMINAL — JEX SAARELAHT TRIO
CD LAUNCH: Andrea Keller launches her latest album, Wave Rider, with her quartet and a string quartet at The Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, 7pm, Wednesday 20 November Pianist and composer Andrea Keller has taken music composed over the past three years and arranged it to include a string quartet comprising Erkki Veltheim violin, Helen Ayres violin, Matt Laing viola and Zoe Knighton cello. The launch … Continue reading QUARTETS MAKE WAVES
