COMING GIG: 8pm, Thursday, March 31, Dizzy’s Jazz Club, 381 Burnley St, Richmond Sonya Veronica vocals, Mark Fitzgibbon piano, Howard Cairns double bass and Raj Jayaweera drums. Sonya Veronica has requested that Ausjazz blog mention her debut performance at Dizzy’s, which she says will be “a combination of jazz standards and a few chanson Francaise, like Léo Ferré’s Avec Le Temps“. ABC Jazz includes in … Continue reading Sonya Veronica @ Dizzy’s
BERNIE McGANN TRIO AND GUESTS MARK FITZGIBBON AND JULIEN WILSON at Chapel Off Chapel In the groove: Bernie Mcgann As usual, Adrian Jackson creates added interest by nudging artists into new situations — e.g. Vince Jones adding lyrics to Australian instrumental compositions — or facilitating meetings of musicians that ought to have occurred, but have not so far. New combo: McGann and Wilson I was … Continue reading STONNINGTON JAZZ 2010 — DAY 6
CD REVIEW JONES’S voice skates, floats, skips, darts and dives over an ever-changing sea of notes. The words — most from the pen of partner Deanne Adams — dance lightly, insightfully, into life’s pivotal and precious moments. Hayden, as on his ARIA-nominated 1997 album Whisper Not, is ably accompanied. This line-up — Mark Fitzgibbon on piano, Eugene Ball on trumpet, Sam Anning on bass and … Continue reading NINE LIVES SLIPPING — HAYDEN JONES
