Canberra Jazz blog

Rhythm Syndicate did a concert of two halves: the first a series of songs from musical theatre and film; the second various carols and Chris...

Family friend Alysa invited me to the jam session at Smiths given her band were the hosts for the night.  It was upstairs and I managed a be...

Kompactus performed a 1.25 hour work in 24 parts with huge complexity and obviously considerable emotional depth at Wesley.  I got to record...

I can't say completely different because I know and enjoy spoken word and I've done 10 albums of the stuff anyway, but this was poet...

We often use the term chamber music for smaller groups playing older music in smaller spaces but when I heard Austral Harmony at Sally and P...

It was a busy musical weekend, what with 2 jazz gigs and a Beethoven 7 rehearsal and later a concert and a committee meeting.  No pics for t...

What is it about early music that's so welcoming.  Do we have it in our bones the memory of the occasional troubadour visit?  They didn...

We expected a rush but NCO finished early enough and we relaxed.  Nice, because the next outing was something particularly special.  Guitari...

Last year NCO's modern popular concert was film music and it was a roaring success.  This year it was musical theatre and again the audi...

I had the inside goss as tenor Jack Jordan was staying with us for a few days to prepare and perform the first Living Collection session at ...

I'd seen Jennifer Hou play only days before when she performed for Michael Dooley and his revisit to his compositions in Anachronisms.  ...

C'est vrai!  Paris is strong on jazz and, as I understand, also on earlier jazz styles and we have our own authentic Canberra-cum-Austra...

It's a work of art and myth but I find it difficult to think of the planets other than in a sense of astronomy, that being a hobby of mi...

The Evans  Robson Quartet were on tour and they are royalty in Australian jazz and I was lucky enough to be free for their Smiths gig.  This...

Robert Schmidli has other work but an abiding interest in music and his piano performance and an impressive history in younger days of perfo...