LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL

PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 – 12, 2016 SOME of the main drawcards at this year’s festival are well-known knowns — Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Gary Bartz — but it’s a big program with plenty of other artists to be excited about. Stats don’t put flesh on the bones, but over 10 days the festival will stage 74 events involving 335 artists (75 international and 260 Australian), … Continue reading LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL

FROM CROWD TO CROWD

PICTORIAL UPDATE: Sunday 1 June, 2014 Ausjazz visits two very different Melbourne International Jazz gigs that attracted large audiences: How different can two concerts be? Hardly more so, it seemed, than The Greek Project at Melbourne’s town hall and Chris Dave with The Drumhedz at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. I had the chance to go to both. This is not a review (that’s for later), … Continue reading FROM CROWD TO CROWD