Ausjazz blog previews Stonnington Jazz 2011 — May 19 to May 29 The days are suddenly much colder and the nights have that stay-at-home chill. Many of us are suffering from sore throats, persistent coughs and similar energy-sapping afflictions. So what’s the incentive to venture out to hear live music? During the past few nights I’ve had some of the worst coughing bouts in years, … Continue reading WYNTON MARSALIS SENDS HIS APOLOGIES
Ausjazz blog could not be at the awards ceremony at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom last night, but congratulates the winners: Tarrawarra Estate Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album ― Elly Hoyt Gibson Guitars Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album: Mike Nock Trio ― An Accumulation of Subtleties Palace Cinemas Best Australian Jazz Blend Album The Subterraneans ― The Subterraneans Brand Partners Best Australian Traditional Jazz Album: Leigh Barker ― … Continue reading JAZZ BELL AWARDS 2011
CD REVIEW CD launch: March 1, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne, 9pm THIS debut as leader by Tasmanian-born pianist Matt Boden, now living in Paris, closes with an endearingly slow-swinging version of Mingus’s tune Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love. With mates Leigh Barker on acoustic bass, Alastair McGrath-Kerr on drums and Gideon Brazil on tenor sax, Boden retains that mood in his Berlin-inspired Revaler Strasse. McGrath-Kerr’s 5am, … Continue reading MB4 — MATT BODEN QUARTET
