PICTORIAL UPDATE: Way Out West plays Footscray Community Arts Centre, 7.30pm Tuesday 3 June for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival It was a significant milestone last night when Peter Knight‘s ensemble Way Out West played in Footscray at the venue in which the band — with a slightly different line-up — played its first gig 14 years ago. It was also significant in that the … Continue reading BREAKING NEW GROUND OUT WEST
REFLECTION: Livio Minafra (Italy), MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane 9.30pm Monday 2 June 2014 I plan to post a review of this festival — within the limits of those concerts I attend — as a whole, but this piano solo gig was so out of left field that it seemed to merit a “reflection”. After discussing this surprising performance by Minafra, I posted on … Continue reading AN ITALIAN SURPRISE TO WARM OUR HEARTS
PICTORIAL UPDATE MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 7pm Monday 2 June: Allan Browne Quintet performs The Drunken Boat I had not heard The Drunken Boat performed live, so it was great to hear this work “in the flesh”, played by an ensemble including the composers Geoff Hughes, Eugene Ball and Stella Browne. Scott McConnachie was on saxophone, but otherwise the line-up was … Continue reading EVERY FACE TELLS A STORY
