PREVIEW: Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival 2018 It’s time to once again do what we ought to be doing all year — celebrating the importance and contribution of women in the valuable work of making music, especially jazz. Melbourne and Sydney have excellent festivals to help us enjoy the work of women composers and improvisers, so let’s support these gigs. I was unable to make … Continue reading ENJOY WOMEN AT WORK
PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, November 2-4, 2018 Most music fans going to “Wang” this year will have made that decision some time ago, so this is intended as a guide to the myriad jazz gigs on offer. With the Invictus Games fresh in our minds, the Australian Art Orchestra’s Friday night concert (8pm WPAC Theatre) entitled Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than … Continue reading CHORDS REFLECT CRISES, CULTURES
PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1-10 June, 2018 The 21st MIJF, which over 10 days in almost 100 events will feature almost 400 Australian, international and emerging artists, is only a day away. Already many concerts — An Evening with Branford Marsalis and Sun Ra Arkestra at Melbourne Recital Centre, and the 7pm outing by Nubya Garcia at The Jazzlab — are sold out. A … Continue reading STANDING ROOM ONLY
