NEWS Headline artist announced, Melbourne International Jazz Festival, May 31 to June 9, 2019 Herbie Hancock will be back in town once again, this time to close this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival in June. Announcing this news today, festival artistic director Michael Tortoni said, “We are excited to make this early announcement and extremely honoured that Herbie Hancock is returning to Melbourne to close … Continue reading HERBIE HANCOCK’S RETURNING
REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1 – 10 June 2018 Paul Grabowsky AO wrote Tokyo Overpass with Haruki Murakami’s novel IQ84 as inspiration — the story of a young woman who climbs down a ladder from an elevated highway when her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam and enters a parallel universe. That could be a metaphor for this festival’s engrossing opening concert, The … Continue reading SUSTENANCE FOR THE SOUL
MIJF GALLERY The Gravity Project, Friday 1 June, 7pm, The Jazzlab, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2018 It’s a little early, perhaps, but I’m already declaring one concert on the opening night to be a festival highlight. It was The Gravity Project in which Paul Grabowsky on piano and Rob Burke on saxophone joined shakuhachi master Masaki Nakamura, koto virtuoso Kuniko Obina and Tokyo-based Aaron Choulai on laptop … Continue reading GRAVITY IN PICTURES
