SoundOut 2025-3
Canberra Jazz blog - Tue 4 Feb 2025
Then the internationals again, this time for a sax quartet of Richard, Bertrand, Rhys and Jean-Luc playing steady, slowly shifting tones with perhaps some circular breathing in the mix. All this to visual projected accompaniment from Nicci Hayes who had appeared in the previous year.... ...
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SoundOut 2025-2
Canberra Jazz blog - Mon 3 Feb 2025
Then Zosha Warpena from USA playing hardanger d'amore. This caused quite a thrill, both for the performance, sometimes drone-like or rhythmic developing from a 3-feel, all with overlaid vocals. We weren't alone in being perplexed by the instrument. Hardanger is a Norwegian viola... ...
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SoundOut 2025-1
Canberra Jazz blog - Sun 2 Feb 2025
There are 4 SoundOut sessions and 3 workshops, but it's a busy weekend so I can just get to one session. Unfortunate, as it's a big year with a slew of internationals, even a whole band from France, as well as our locals and others. My session was no.3, Saturday evening. I walke... ...
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Bigs and littles
Canberra Jazz blog - Sun 2 Feb 2025
Callum Allardice appeared upstairs at Smiths, in McGregor Hall, in quartet format. Interestingly, his merch was essentially two albums: one of this very quartet playing this format in this concert and this music and the other a much bigger outing called his Cinematic Light Orchestra, ... ...
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Anglicana
Canberra Jazz blog - Wed 29 Jan 2025
Americana is not something I've ever gone to hear and I've played a few times at the National Folk Festival but didn't manage to stay the day. But I noticed an English Americana duo performing at Smiths and watched their associated video and I was entranced. It's essentially a thing o... ...
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Pomes
Canberra Jazz blog - Tue 28 Jan 2025
My previous appearance to read lyrics at the That Poetry Thing Big Open Mic night was a great success. For me, this time was a letdown. Maybe it was my poetry (...) or maybe the reading which was pretty rushed or the writing which could be obscure. But then I did particula... ...
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Women doing it for themselves
Canberra Jazz blog - Sat 25 Jan 2025
Matriarch advertised a free gig on FB and a club dinner appealed. In the end, we walked in to an Irish instrumental jam in the foyer then Guinness and a beef and Guinness pie (somewhat a pie, but a nice stew none-the-less) and a string of mates who happened to be there and the women doing g... ...
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Bohemia
Canberra Jazz blog - Wed 22 Jan 2025
Bastien and Julien were over from France for just days, playing in the Sydney Festival, at the ACO pier and the Whiteley garden. Then Smiths in Canberra, staying with some mates Celeste and Bill and then Melbourne, perhaps other gigs. They are a woodwind duo, mostly soprano sax and ba... ...
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Mr Jones' offsider
Canberra Jazz blog - Mon 20 Jan 2025
Eric Ajaye hosted a Q&A with bassist Gene Perla at the end of his concert for the Jazz Haus at Tuggeranong Arts Centre and my ear particularly picked up at the mention of Mingus. Amongst some questions about his technique, GP mentioned Mingus' influence after attending his gig. As... ...
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Names and mates
Canberra Jazz blog - Mon 20 Jan 2025
I'd seen an exhibition of photos of Carol Jerrems a few years back at the National Gallery. This one at the National Portrait Gallery was bigger. I noticed works from on loan from the National Gallery, the National Library, presumably the NPG, perhaps more, and there were scenes, coll... ...
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