REVIEW 2019 Melbourne International Jazz Festival – May 30 to June 9 “If music’s not intense, it’s not good.” That throwaway line by a wonderful Melbourne musician came as an instant response to my summation of the Vijay Iyer Trio’s outing at The Jazzlab on Sunday, June 2 as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. In the trio’s fourth outing at the festival, US … Continue reading IS INTENSE … IS GOOD?
Ellen Kirkwood performs in [A]part with Gian Slater and Sandy Evans. Image: Roger Mitchell REVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, November 2-4, 2018 Music speaks for itself. That’s what visiting saxophonist from Holland, Yuri Honing – a man of few words – told the audience in Wangaratta’s Performing Arts Centre Theatre on Saturday night during his quartet’s second festival outing. He’s right, of course. The … Continue reading BEYOND, AND WITH, WORDS
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
