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WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010

WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 — JOHANNES LUEBBERS DECTET

GIG: St Patrick’s Hall, Friday, October 29, 9:30pm Emily Thomas flute, Steph Nicholls oboe, Ben Collins clarinet and alto sax, Sean Little tenor sax, Callum G’Froerer trumpet, Wendy Tait french horn, Tillman Robinson trombone and bass trombone, Chris Foster piano, Nick Abbey bass, Ben Falle drums, Johannes Luebbers conductor WILD the west may be, but this dectet, under the “baton” of Johannes Luebbers, was all … Continue reading WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 — JOHANNES LUEBBERS DECTET

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CD REVIEWS

PRESENCE — _MOTION

CD REVIEW 3.5 stars THE predominant feature of _motion‘s debut album is beauty, whether in the poetry of Andrew Brooks‘s saxophones, bell-like peals from Berish Bilander‘s piano, the delicacy of Hugh Harvey‘s cymbals or luminosity of guest Gian Slater‘s wordless vocals. Lyrical reedman Graeme Lyall was teaching in WA when Brooks, Bilander and bassist Nick Abbey were students there and it’s easy to imagine his … Continue reading PRESENCE — _MOTION

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GIGS

SAM ANNING QUARTET at Bennetts Lane

GIG REVIEW: Sam Anning’s penultimate farewell gig before going to New York, NY. Sam Anning, bass Eugene Ball, trumpet Andrea Keller, piano Rajiv Jayaweera, drums SAM Anning is now in New York, studying for a Master’s at the Manhattan School of Music. Now that he’s gone, we can talk about him. Not that there’s much to say that’s negative about the lad, except that he … Continue reading SAM ANNING QUARTET at Bennetts Lane

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