REVIEW Still Night: Music in Poetry, Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Friday 25 November 2016, 7pm There is a gradually growing section in our hallway book shelves that contains poetry, yet it is all too rarely visited. In that respect it is like death, which we too often avoid confronting until it is thrust upon us. So much can be conveyed in poetry if we give … Continue reading FINDING CONSOLATION IN SADNESS
PREVIEW Melbourne International Jazz Festival, June 3 – 12, 2016 SOME of the main drawcards at this year’s festival are well-known knowns — Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Gary Bartz — but it’s a big program with plenty of other artists to be excited about. Stats don’t put flesh on the bones, but over 10 days the festival will stage 74 events involving 335 artists (75 international and 260 Australian), … Continue reading LONG LOOK AT A SHORTER FESTIVAL
PREVIEW: Perth International Jazz Festival, Friday 24 May to Sunday 26 May, 2013 If you’ve never heard of this festival, that’s because this is the first. Co-owner of the Ellington Jazz Club Graham Wood, who is also Program Director of Music at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, has planned the festival as an extension of the club, though PIJF is a not-for-profit incorporated association. … Continue reading ADD JOE LOVANO AND STIR
