James Sherlock joins Sonya Veronica

COMING GIG: 9pm, Friday, July 8, Dizzy’s Jazz Club, 381 Burnley St, Richmond Sonya Veronica vocals, James Sherlock guitar, Howard Cairns double bass and Gideon Marcus drums. Sonya Veronica has requested that Ausjazz blog mention her performance on Friday night at Dizzy’s. Ausjazz blog has yet to catch Sonya in performance, but the names Howard Cairns and James Sherlock are a great recommendation that this … Continue reading James Sherlock joins Sonya Veronica

Sonya Veronica @ Dizzy’s

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

MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW

Saturday, June 4 — Monday, 13 June It’s eclectic. It’s like an octopus. Yes, just when you thought the word eclectic had become too hackneyed a term, there is really no better way to describe this year’s MIJF, which had its program launch at 6pm today. The program devised by Sophie Brous is indeed wide-ranging, broad-based, extensive, comprehensive, varied, diverse, catholic, all-embracing, multifaceted, multifarious, heterogeneous, miscellaneous … Continue reading MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011 — PREVIEW