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ALBARE - Review, May 18th at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Coming just a little after the end of the exhaustingly large-scale Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the opening night of guitarist Albare’s three week season at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club on May 18th. could have been expected to be a low-key affair to gently usher in his return to public performance after a break of almost 9 years. However, because the artist known as Albare is also such a great patron of the Australian jazz scene in his ‘daytime’ persona as Al... Victoria | Martin Jackson | Sunday, 30 May 2010 | Hits: 143 Read more |
Bruce Cale Quartet - On Fire – The Sydney Concert (1980)Bruce Cale QuartetOn Fire – The Sydney Concert (1980)(Tall Poppies Records)Rating: ****1/2It’s 29 years since this concert was recorded by the NSW Jazz Action Society at the Sydney Musicians’ Club. A long time emerging from the archives, it’s an important, historic album and the record company has overcome technical problems to reproduce a live recording of acceptable quality.The compositions are by bassist/leader Bruce Cale or the late genius Roger Frampton on piano, and the musical concepts are as fresh as ... New South Wales | John McBeath | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Hits: 65 Read more |
Darren Heinrich Trio - New Vintage Tunes for Hammond OrganDarren Heinrich TrioNew Vintage Tunes for Hammond Organ(Independent)Rating: ****After the popularity of the Hammond organ in the 1950s and 1960s, the instrument mostly receded from jazz until its reappearance in the 1990s. Sydney organist/composer Darren Heinrich keeps the traditional trio format of organ, guitar and drums for his debut album of original compositions.The tunes vary, from the relaxed ballad I Don’t Know, through bluesy pieces like Slinky to the bop influences of Easy Autumn. Heinrich uses two different trios here, ... New South Wales | John McBeath | Tuesday, 12 May 2009 | Hits: 61 Read more |
My Goodness McGuiness - The BasementMy Goodness McGuinessThe Basement – 13 July 2009By Greg LevineThe Argentinian theorist, Nestor Garcia Canclini, asked the question, “How can we understand the presence of indigenous crafts and vanguard art catalogues on the same coffee table?” The answer may be that we make no attempt to understand, we simply accept it and move on. The cultural landscape through which we now travel has become a coffee table: we pick things up and browse through them without giving them our full ... New South Wales | Greg Levine | Saturday, 12 July 2008 | Hits: 32 Read more |
Bunbury International Jazz FestivalBunbury International Jazz Festival Bunbury 10-11 May For the second year running the City of Bunbury has sponsored an international Jazz festival. The City has a winner. This year the festival attracted a balanced and exciting program of local, national and international artists and, importantly, a good audience of music lovers. The major concert of the festival on Saturday night featured Hank Marvin. Marvin was the lead guitarist of the Shadows, that iconic group of the 60s and ... New South Wales | Peter Kenyon | Sunday, 25 May 2008 | Hits: 46 Read more |
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