PREVIEW Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, November 3 – 5, 2017 The 28th Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues will be the first without Adrian Jackson at the helm as artistic director. Instead, the programming team consists of Adam Simmons and Zoe Hauptmann for jazz, and Scott Solimo and Frank Davidson for blues. This change led to some understandable concern on the part of … Continue reading WANGARATTA 2017: JAM-PACKED JAZZ
REVIEW: Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues 2015 MICHAEL Ondaatje, in his novel The Cat’s Table, paints a view of life in which “there is a story ahead of you, barely existing”. He says “only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it” so that “you find in this way the path of your life”. It is a stretch, perhaps, to compare this view … Continue reading MUSICAL COLOSSUS LEAVES AN INDELIBLE MARK
PREVIEW: Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, October 30 to November 2, 2015 Ausjazz takes a look at what’s in store as a landmark festival of jazz and blues hits the reset button in a bid to broaden its appeal and invite new patrons into Wangaratta’s moonlit gardens to sample genre-hopping musical combos and chill-out lounges After 25 years of fairly settled venues and a reasonably … Continue reading SURPRISES AFTER DARK, QUINOA IN THE SALAD
