REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1 – 10 June 2018 Paul Grabowsky AO wrote Tokyo Overpass with Haruki Murakami’s novel IQ84 as inspiration — the story of a young woman who climbs down a ladder from an elevated highway when her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam and enters a parallel universe. That could be a metaphor for this festival’s engrossing opening concert, The … Continue reading SUSTENANCE FOR THE SOUL
PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1-10 June, 2018 The 21st MIJF, which over 10 days in almost 100 events will feature almost 400 Australian, international and emerging artists, is only a day away. Already many concerts — An Evening with Branford Marsalis and Sun Ra Arkestra at Melbourne Recital Centre, and the 7pm outing by Nubya Garcia at The Jazzlab — are sold out. A … Continue reading STANDING ROOM ONLY
INTERVIEW Kavita Shah will perform at Uptown Jazz Cafe on Monday, June 5, at 7.30pm as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Kavitah has kindly taken the trouble to respond to some questions from Roger Mitchell for Ausjazz blog. Originally it was intended that these responses be incorporated into an article, but lack of time has ruled that out, so they are presented in … Continue reading A FRACTION TOO MUCH FUSION?
