Canberra Jazz blog

Promoting modern jazz and other arts in Canberra, Australia

24 July 2025

Direct lineage

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Given this concert's Bohemian theme, I would no longer think of Simandl as unconventional but artistic, yes.   Simandl developed the m...
22 July 2025

Parliament no.48 opens

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'Twenty-eight countries, including Australia, the UK and France, are demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for Israel to l...
19 July 2025

Delights

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In so many ways, this concert by Salut! Baroque was delightful.   It's a throwaway description but worthy and apt in this case.   The ...
17 July 2025

Popular B1 of 3B

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Beethoven Septet Ebmaj op.20 was somewhat the most popular of his works, so a pillar of BBB admiration.   But he didn't like it.   Too...
12 July 2025

One for NAIDOC

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I was wondering what to do for NAIDOC week and I had the opportunity to attend Big name, no blankets at the Canberra Theatre Centre.   It...
11 July 2025

Death thoes?

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Oh well, here we go again.  Changes to ANU; changes to the School of Music.  The School took a while to recover from the damage of the last ...
10 July 2025

Annual outings

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Again Jinbo Huang brought his students to Wesley for a concert outing.   I've seen several of these and they are always rewarding, sta...
08 July 2025

Bass and beyond

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Pippa Macmillan was coming to play with John and Marie in Apeiron Baroque and I was in.   Pippa is now in Australia but is quite and inter...
07 July 2025

Our annual songs meet

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I love my jazz and other gigs but my longed-for favourite each year has to be NCO with CCS.   That's a full orchestra and choir at L...
04 July 2025

The allure of standards

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Apparently Geoff had suggested a standards trio and I was not alone in thanking him for it.   Jazzers can become a bit blasé about our Ame...
03 July 2025

Early days

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Zachary Li was new to me but he'd started playing piano at 4 and achieved his AMEB Grade 8 at 14 so I shouldn't have been surprise...
30 June 2025

Tastefully typical

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Sally Whitwell is a Canberra resident and it was she who designed a deliciously effective description on her day.   She earlier spoke of...
29 June 2025

Joy of the dance

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It was a pleasure to take in Musica da Camera with 2 basses from the audience.   This was such an interesting and inviting program and wel...
25 June 2025

Reminiscent of improv

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An impromptu is a classical piece that's "reminiscent of improvisation".     Today I heard four impromptus on piano.   It...
23 June 2025

CJ's 20th

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It was just a week or so ago when I published CJ's 3,000th blog post.   Today I/we celebrate CJ's 20th birthday.   20 years!   T...
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