DOUBLE PREVIEW Monash Art Ensemble CD launch: Barney McAll’s Zephryix, 7.30pm Thursday, April 19, Bird’s Basement, Tickets from $29 + booking fee John McAll’s Black Money launches new album, Secular, 5pm Sunday, April 22, Bird’s Basement, Tickets from $27 + booking fee You don’t often catch the brothers McAll together on stage, but this week they are coming close to that congruence — performing in the … Continue reading ALMOST TOGETHER AGAIN
REVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues 2017 Julian “Cannonball” Adderley was in the car on the way back from this year’s Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, along with Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones, Art Blakey and a bunch of others from the fifties. They were not wearing seatbelts. They soothed my aching ears. They oozed class and they came uncluttered — clear … Continue reading LOUD AND PROUD V SUBTLY VARIED
REVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 1 – 11, 2017 To say this festival ended on a high note is undeniable. It was also a long note — or collection of many notes. Speedball — a quintet formed in Perth 17 years ago and whose members now mostly live in Melbourne — played possibly the longest set of the festival to a packed house at … Continue reading REVOLVING DOORS: 17 GIGS IN 10 DAYS
