Canberra Jazz blog

Ah it is fun to grab the JB and tail it down to the Canberra Blues Society jam session on a Sunday arvo and have a nice simple blues blow wi...

Bianca started with Bluesette, all scat over a classic standard, subtly interpreted and nicely felt then explained that she liked humour in ...

City Tidda was the name of this concert and it came with a veritable program like a classical concert, with tunes with explanations and perf...

It's a regular event and quite fascinating in its presentation of development through musical education.  Jinbo Huang comes regularly to...

Could this become repetitive?  No, never.  Perhaps the greatest excitement I have in music these days in a big orchestral choral concert.  D...

Mike Price talked of a band with two Carls, Dewhurst and Morgan, sometime in the past and I've got reports on CJ of various combinations...

Mark Jurkiewicz presented a string of Chopin works for the latest Wesley lunchtime concert and I was mulling over such depth of immersion in...

Well I don't have pics of all the bands at the Canberra Blues Society jam session, a few because I had to leave early and another becaus...

It just goes to show that my interests have long histories.  It's a Blues weekend for me and a guitar trio was playing Hendrix and heroe...

It was a stunner that such a complex performance would be gathered by singer and pianist for a Wesley lunchtime concert, it being unpaid as ...

It was only at the last minute that I noticed two dectets, from Melbourne and Sydney, coming together to play at Smiths.  After 10 Part Inve...

Feel like a pro?  Nothing to do with money.  What I loved was a program that we could get together in a week, admittedly just for one half, ...

Wesley runs a music scholars program.  I don't know much about the services it offers, but I do see the scholars once or twice a year an...

It's their 45th anniversary concert tour and CD and these are masters and seasoned of our jazz craft so it's so surprise that this w...

Best composition?  I wondered about that but it's a stupid question, especially given my limited knowledge, but my favourite work?  I th...