INTERVIEW Kavita Shah will perform at Uptown Jazz Cafe on Monday, June 5, at 7.30pm as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Kavitah has kindly taken the trouble to respond to some questions from Roger Mitchell for Ausjazz blog. Originally it was intended that these responses be incorporated into an article, but lack of time has ruled that out, so they are presented in … Continue reading A FRACTION TOO MUCH FUSION?
PREVIEW Album launch, Uptown Jazz Cafe, Sunday, July 3 at 8pm Our perpetually smiling (currently caretaker) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has exhorted us to help make this country “agile”, by which I have taken him to mean that we must be readily adaptable to all sorts of changes … such as “no cuts” meaning lots of cuts, or copper wire NBN rather than fibre, or … Continue reading UPTOWN’S WORTH CONSIDERING
REVIEW / RAVE Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 to June 12, 2016 One of the most interesting conversations I’ve had during this jazz festival — and I’ve had a few, before and after attending 15 concerts — was about the jazz hero. The person I spoke to was a musician who said he wanted to move away from that approach or model in bands … Continue reading OF JAZZ HEROES AND HIGHLIGHTS
