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
REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, 1 – 10 June 2018 Paul Grabowsky AO wrote Tokyo Overpass with Haruki Murakami’s novel IQ84 as inspiration — the story of a young woman who climbs down a ladder from an elevated highway when her taxi is stuck in a traffic jam and enters a parallel universe. That could be a metaphor for this festival’s engrossing opening concert, The … Continue reading SUSTENANCE FOR THE SOUL
