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WANGARATTA JAZZ 2009

WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — BARNEY McALL & SYLENT RUNNING

Barney McAll on keyboards, Gian Slater vocals, Chris Hale on electric bass, Ben Vanderwal on drums, Dan West on laptop, toys, electronics, Nir Felder (New York) on guitar This was quite different from what I’d expected from the notes promising experiments in relationships “between silence and non-silence, beauty and its opposites … pristine acoustics and botched, ‘confused robot’ electronics”. Barney explained the set would explore … Continue reading WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — BARNEY McALL & SYLENT RUNNING

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WANGARATTA JAZZ 2009

WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — ARI HOENIG QUARTET

Ari Hoenig drums, Gilad Hekselman guitar, Jamie Oehlers tenor sax, Sam Anning bass Ari Hoenig Ari Hoenig is a fantastic drummer. His skill and obvious delight in displaying his party trick of varying the pitch on his drums provided my first festival highlight during the quartet’s performance of Bobby Timmons’s Moanin’ (made famous by Art Blakey, Hoenig reminded us). He tuned the drums, then used … Continue reading WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — ARI HOENIG QUARTET

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