Ausjazz blog previews the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2012, which was launched on March 13: The hubbub on level 24 of The Langham in Melbourne gave way to attentive silence yesterday evening as Murphy’s Law treated the assembled multitude to about four minutes of Big Creatures & Little Creatures: The Modular Suite. The music was a welcome relief from the necessary formalities of the official … Continue reading FESTIVAL TAKES TO THE SKIES
GIG: CD Launch at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, Tuesday, November 15, 8.30pm When Robert Burke, Tony Gould, Nick Haywood and Tony Floyd launch their album Live At Bennetts Lane (Jazzhead) this week by playing live at Bennetts Lane, one member of the quartet will be studying their performance closely. Bassist Haywood, who with his newly formed quartet of Colin Hopkins on piano, Stephen Magnusson … Continue reading LIVE AT BENNETTS LANE, BUT 15 YEARS IN THE MAKING
Sunday, March 20 at 9pm, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne Marinucci/Gould/Manins Gianni Marinucci trumpet and flugelhorn, Tony Gould piano and Imogen Manins cello Sundays used to be days of worship and reverence for many of us, and the chords and melodies of hymns are deeply embedded in our musical memory banks. Many of us have left that music behind in the process of shedding beliefs, but the … Continue reading GIGS NOT TO MISS 2 — SUNDAY
