Canberra Jazz blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

I’m in Adelaide again to visit family. I always check out the jazz around and this particularly interested me: COMA Creative Original Music...

I last wrote of this pair at Wesley with great admiration and pleasure, especially for a work telling of a dying soldier's thoughts in...

It's said that you are only 6 degrees of separation from anyone.   Maybe.    An old friend had shared a lift with George W Bush in the...

This is CJ Blog post no. 3,000.   Blogspot keeps the count, not me, but it's opportune that a big international touring artist should ...

The Wesley Scholars are a changing group and they perform several times each year and this Wednesday lunchtime concert was one.   And it w...

Later in the night, after the book launch, is not so late for jazz these days.  We must be an ageing cohort.  Whatever, Ben Lerner was playi...

It's a while since I attended my last book launch, although I hear plenty of similar discussions on ABCRN, but this one caught my eye.  ...