Tag: Magnet

ARTICLES, WANGARATTA JAZZ 2012

WE DON’T SOUND LIKE CHARLIE PARKER

INTERVIEW The attraction of MAGNET lies in the collaboration of kindred spirits. As Roger Mitchell discovers, the quartet’s vocalist can play a right-handed drum kit the wrong way around, and its guitarist was dumped by text message during a recording session. More than one musician has likened improvisation to conversation, pointing out the ease with which we talk among friends, listening and speaking without planning … Continue reading WE DON’T SOUND LIKE CHARLIE PARKER

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MIJF 2011

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW

Saturday, June 4 — Monday, 13 June It’s eclectic. It’s like an octopus. Yes, just when you thought the word eclectic had become too hackneyed a term, there is really no better way to describe this year’s MIJF, which had its program launch at 6pm today. The program devised by Sophie Brous is indeed wide-ranging, broad-based, extensive, comprehensive, varied, diverse, catholic, all-embracing, multifaceted, multifarious, heterogeneous, miscellaneous … Continue reading MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW

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