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MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2011

THREE TURKS & A WASP / FRAN SWINN QUARTET & ROCKIE STONE: INFORM

Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival’s APRA Composer Commission Concert at BMW Edge, Friday May 6, 2011 Commission concerts are always a highlight of the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, but by their nature they involve taking risks. Whether it is Ren Walters carefully placing a group of musicians in the Iwaki Auditorium and giving them minimal guidelines in a work that could go anywhere, or Gian Slater … Continue reading THREE TURKS & A WASP / FRAN SWINN QUARTET & ROCKIE STONE: INFORM

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MELBOURNE JAZZ FRINGE FESTIVAL 2011

THE OUTER LIMITS

Preview: Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, April 29 to May 8, 2011 Yes, the image above is unashamedly a bid to attract attention to this preview of this year’s MJFF, but in my defence it is the picture guitarist Mastaneh Nazarian chose to be used on the Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival website, which is where all the details of this festival can be found. Nazarian, who … Continue reading THE OUTER LIMITS

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CD REVIEWS

UNE SAISON EN ENFER — ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET

CD REVIEW (A SEASON IN HELL) 4 stars HELL has never been this appealing. In its second interpretative journey into the works of Arthur Rimbaud — after The Drunken Boat — the quintet takes as inspiration the prose poem A Season in Hell, written after the poet’s unhappy relationship with Paul Verlaine. Composers Eugene Ball (trumpet) and Geoff Hughes (guitar) bring eight harmonically rich and … Continue reading UNE SAISON EN ENFER — ALLAN BROWNE QUINTET

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