Canberra Jazz blog

Good to get out for some jazz.   I'm busy with all manner of classical music, which I love and some of which I play, but jazz remains ...

I usually think of Linus Lee as an organist and I love his performances and I love organ, especially for the dramatic, deep, pensive nature ...

I caught Stuart Long doing a lighter piano concert than normal.   This was music of films and Satie and Glass and Nyman and Morricone and ...

It was a very busy night.   We had a jazz gig that I couldn't do, and thank you tickets to Luminescence that we couldn't take up and...

It feels a strange outcome for me to be bass in the string section assisting at a jazz big band gig.   But there I was.   Nice that the ja...

I ran into some fellow classical players and one had just started going to CSO concerts because she was approaching 35 and that's the ...

  This was a combination of bassoon and harpsichord from Ben Hoadley and Ariana Odermatt at Wesley.   It's not a common combination, b...

The Canberra Blues Society jam session is a blast from the past in several ways, not least that I return to an e-bass.   Fretted or fretle...

Luminescence Chamber Singers needed a host for a member joining temporarily from Melbourne.   We do this stuff and it's fun and intrig...

As I write this I regret that I hadn't read the generous and informative program notes before this performance.   This was Oriana Chor...

  I should advise a potential conflict of interest but it is nice when the Canberra Theatre Centre invites you to a performance.  I guess ...

It's been a break for family visits and long drives but now it's back on for young and old.   First up is my regular Wesley Luncht...

I'd played with Hugh Magri-Bull but it was only at a jam session and a jam session is just a few tunes on different gear and nothing l...

I'd talked of baroque music, but this is really earlier, I guess, still baroque but early?   It's certainly not Bach.   Perhaps I ...

I think of Chopin as I remember playing it, a very inarticulate student take.   It wasn't pretty.   But to hear Chopin played by someo...