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
REVIEW: Wangaratta Jazz 2014 Ausjazz samples 25 concerts in the 25th year of the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival and finds many expectations fulfilled and many unexpected moments of magic The 1948 film entitled The Naked City closed with the line, “There are eight million stories in the Naked City and this has been one of them.” Well, one story to come out of the Wangaratta Jazz and … Continue reading JAZZ STRIPPED NAKED — WELL, ALMOST
On loan from New York City, pianist and composer Barney McAll has two gigs in Melbourne before his return to the US. At Bennetts Lane Jazz Club at 9pm tonight (November 13, 2013) he will be in his Non-Compliance Trio with Jonathan Zwartz on bass and Hamish Stuart on drums. I’ll be working ’til midnight, but luckily I heard the trio at the recent Wangaratta … Continue reading TWO FROM BARNEY — BE QUICK
