REFLECTION Ravi Coltrane at Bird’s Basement, Singers Lane, Melbourne on Sunday, March 6, 2016 IT HAS been said often in recent months, but there’s a lot of live music happening in Melbourne, plenty of it being jazz / improvised. That can’t be bad. But as venues proliferate, the challenge remains to really get more Melburnians — and visitors to town — off their couches and out there listening, … Continue reading OF BIRD’S, BENNETTS AND BEYOND
PREVIEW: 17th Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club and The VCA Grant Street Theatre, December 7 to 14, 2014 This festival is always one to look forward to as the year’s end approaches and this year Sonja Horbelt has put together a comprehensive program. Budgets are often a constraint, but this year the MWIF has a little more funding and it shows in the line-up, … Continue reading MELBOURNE CELEBRATES WOMEN IN JAZZ
NEWS: Melbourne International Jazz Festival, until Sunday, June 9 Just announced! More Snarky Puppy love can be expressed in two club sessions this Tuesday night, 4 June. The one at 8pm at Bennetts Lane is sold out, but there is now another at 10pm. Tickets are strictly limited. So the gigs at the Lane that night will be: In the club (smaller room): Open Loose (8pm) … Continue reading PUPPY LOVE OVERFLOWS
