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
(Extreme) ONE look at the garish album art is enough to show this is going to be fun. The successor to Volume I: Smokin’ Da Bone swaps Zoe Hauptmann for Brendan Clarke on bass, but preserves the line-up of Zoe’s brothers Ben, on guitar, and James, on drums, with irrepressible ‘bone player Jeremy Borthwick. Apart from two tracks, by Arne Hanna and James, these lively … Continue reading Vol II: Plugged! — Exposed Bone
(Jazzgroove) GLOOMY winter days and a world in carbon-induced meltdown calls for a dose of cheery, foot-stompin’ music to salve the soul. Enter Zoe Hauptmann and her jazz-influenced hoedown hillbillies. Original compositions by acoustic bassist Hauptmann, guitarist Aaron Flower, trombonist John Hibbard and saxophonist Dan Waples warm the heart from the opening Pigly Wigly Hoe Down. Hauptmann brothers Ben, on guitar, and James, on drums, … Continue reading Zoe and the Buttercups — self-titled
