JAZZ BELL AWARDS 2011

Ausjazz blog could not be at the awards ceremony at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom last night, but congratulates the winners: Tarrawarra Estate Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album ― Elly Hoyt Gibson Guitars Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album: Mike Nock Trio ― An Accumulation of Subtleties Palace Cinemas Best Australian Jazz Blend Album The Subterraneans ― The Subterraneans Brand Partners Best Australian Traditional Jazz Album: Leigh Barker ― … Continue reading JAZZ BELL AWARDS 2011

GIGS NOT TO MISS 2 — SUNDAY

Sunday, March 20 at 9pm, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne Marinucci/Gould/Manins Gianni Marinucci trumpet and flugelhorn, Tony Gould piano and Imogen Manins cello Sundays used to be days of worship and reverence for many of us, and the chords and melodies of hymns are deeply embedded in our musical memory banks. Many of us have left that music behind in the process of shedding beliefs, but the … Continue reading GIGS NOT TO MISS 2 — SUNDAY

HERE — ROB BURKE & TONY GOULD

CD REVIEW ROB Bourke and Tony Gould say in the liner notes that they want the listener to be “challenged” and to understand that every note has a reason for existing. But their third album as a duo — after 1996’s Gateway and 1999’s Tin Roof for Rain — is an easy challenge, with carefully crafted explorations into the melodic beauty, space, timbre and dynamic … Continue reading HERE — ROB BURKE & TONY GOULD