CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET AT MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE ANDREA KELLER QUARTET OPENING It’s always exciting to hear an artist perform if you have interviewed them, and I had spent an hour and a half on the phone to Charles Lloyd. So I was ready for this concert — just not ready enough to be early, so the usual parking scramble ensued. Andrea Keller Quartet The … Continue reading MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL — DAY 4
OVERGROUND AT MELBOURNE TOWN HALL Han Bennink … and again Lots of gigs. Lots of noise, but some quiet moments as well. Music non-stop from 2pm Saturday until 8:30pm in four Melbourne Town Hall venues. Having emerged late the previous night from the finale of Melbourne’s jazz fringe festival, which has for years had its full day of music entitled Big Arse Sunday, I could … Continue reading MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2010 — DAY 2
GIG What a blast! On trumpets we heard Paul Williamson, Scott Tinkler, Eugene Ball and Phil Slater. On keyboard was Marc Hannaford, on bass Sam Anning and on drums Simon Barker. The trumpets, each distinctive in tone and colour (Is that nonsense? It seems right, somehow.) wove such mingling magic as well as soloing — again each so differently — that I was swooning quietly … Continue reading TRUMPET ARMAGEDDON AT UPTOWN JAZZ CAFE
