Canberra Jazz blog

Shortis and Simpson often appear with offsiders and this was one and it was apt, given the theme was 1966 and all that, about that key year ...

We discovered the ACT HUB with another play just weeks before, Five lesbians eating a quiche.  The ACT HUB is located in that century-old co...

I'll put a spot here for Tilt Alt. gig at Molly just because I really enjoyed it.  A Thursday night, shorter but later, 9.30pm start.  T...

It's a different gig when Ben Hoadley plays with Ariana Odermatt, not for the music itself or the competence (both are mightily worthy) ...

Maruki always aims for a challenge and this concert was no different.  Strangely, we started with a symphony, then ended with smaller works,...

Many jazz players tend to post-bop and instrumentals but I have huge respect for lyrics and love a singer.  Tilly Street is a walk back to t...

I reckon hard bop is the fave, the high peak, of any jamming jazz instrumentalist.  I dropped in on Molly after the Cowboy Shakespeare and t...

Well, how do you conceive of this?  Actors with glasses, presumably of plonk, or beer cans performing Macbeth as a cowboy play.  Given the c...

This was fun.  A session recording at ANUSOM that ended up in the recording studio, although I wasn't on the massive Neve desk.  But a d...

Piano teacher Elena Nikulina returned to Wesley with 3 current students and they were mightily impressive and this was not unexpected.  It...

A day of both pleasure and confusions but it all worked out well in the end.  I planned to record Apeiron Baroque and expected a 3pm start b...

The National Gallery appears to own all the Arthur Boyd tapestries in his series on St Francis and they are all on display together for the ...

This was the Canberra Men's Choir in its 40th anniversary year singing in Wesley and slightly amusingly directed by a woman.  But so wha...

I got to another Smiths jazz jam and the host band was playing a cute tune/song in Cantonese called Eyes on me from the computer game Final ...

This was a fascinating choral outing, perhaps limited in theme and definitely in lyrics but consistent and varied in style and periods.  Thi...