WANGARATTA OPENS WARM & A LITTLE WACKY
Ausjazz blog catches the flavour of Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival on Friday, October 28, 2011 Linda Oh It was balmy, warm and threatening rain when festival artistic director Adrian Jackson...
View ArticleTHE STING IN THE TAILFIN
Taking shape or taking off? Paul Grabowsky conducts Shapeshifter GIG REVIEW: Shapeshifter, Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, Melbourne, Wednesday 24 October 2012 Take two groups of musicians, add Paul Grabowsky...
View ArticleFOUR FELLOWS BAG FELLOWSHIPS
The Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced its 2012 fellowship recipients. Two-year fellowships were awarded to four artists: trumpeter and composer Peter Knight, jazz...
View ArticleCARRIED AWAY BY AN ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC CLIMAX
Alister Spence and Paul Grabowsky in ElectroACOUSTIC, ACOUSTICelectro ‘It seemed as if they were hunters and collectors, fossicking and ferreting, gathering and creating, building and engineering,...
View ArticleTHE ONE THAT DIDN’T GET AWAY — ENRICO RAVA
Enrico Rava BREAKING NEWS: Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival line-up announced for its 25th year, Friday 31 October to Monday 3 November. The embargo has just been lifted and Adrian Jackson‘s...
View ArticleSCOTT TINKLER IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
Hard core: Scott Tinkler PREVIEW: Hard Core on the Fly, Australian Art Orchestra, 7, 14, 21 and 28 August at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, 8.30pm Hecklers can gird their loins and other lovers of improvised...
View ArticleBEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE — WANGARATTA
The inimitable James Greening, leader of Greening From Ear to Ear A FESTIVAL GUIDE: Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival, Friday 31 October to Monday 3 November. It’s that time of year when excitement...
View ArticleTHE PIPES, THE PIPES ARE CALLING
Austin Buckett and Claire Edwardes Image: Traianos-Pakioufakis PREVIEW: Exit Ceremonies, Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring, Austin Buckett (Aus), Simon James Phillips (Germany),...
View ArticleTHE PIPES CALLED FOR CONCENTRATION
Austin Buckett at the organ console as a patron experiences Alvin Lucier’s Swing Bridge. REVIEW: Exit Ceremonies, Australian Art Orchestra and Ensemble Offspring, Austin Buckett (Aus), Simon James...
View ArticleHEAR HEAR! (OR DID WE?)
Peter Knight (composer) and Georgie Darvidis (voice) in Diomira. Image supplied PREVIEW Diomira, The Australian Art Orchestra, The Substation, Newport Saturday, October 7 at 8pm. 1 hr, no interval...
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