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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