Canberra Jazz blog

It was a rushed affair but not too difficult to pick up and with some inviting music.  Celeste asked me to sit in with Brindabella Orchestra...

We’re in Melbourne and my online trawl of the jazz clubs showed Niels Rosendahl was playing at Paris Cat. Niels' a friend of CJ and sin...

It’s not a museum or a concert but I was out shopping in Melbourne. I’m not a great shopper but this was enjoyable and the goods were secon...

Maybe it was the War or maybe the depression but St Andrews was never finished.   It lacks its dome and nave but it's big and impressive...

The Bach was instantly recognisable and so was the Morricone.  Not so the Saint-Saens.  A wonderful program, but more than that.  This was a...

It's not a good time these days, with Covid and climate and government so maybe that's why I didn't get so many belly-laughs at ...

I love piano and the last few concerts have been solo piano and there was a piano for this concert, but the feature instrument was clarinet....

The final MusicACT Delta Session was Genesis Owusu and Citizen Kay presented by UC Live.  Genesis opened with nice steady, driving grooves w...

Twice delayed by Covid but finally it arrived.  This was Phoenix Collective as a trio: Dan on violin with the local pairing of Clara on cell...

The Schubert impromptus are renowned but I didn't really know them.  Mark Jurkiewicz played the first four (apparently there are eight) ...

I like to choose a release date with some significance.  The first were trivial: New Years Day and Easter Sunday.  I also got a family birth...

It's not just work from home with Covid, but also concert from home.  The Net is an embarrassment of riches.  Nothing new there and it&#...

This week, Smiths Alternative and MusicACT presents Rebecca Mann and Small Town Alien, introduced by out host, Nigel.  Again, Rebecca is a ...

France is in the news recently, as is Covid, so a first Wesley post-lockdown concert of French piano music seemed so apt.  Stuart Long was p...

CJ's Belgian correspondent reporting.  Seeing we cannot experience the music scene in Belgium this year the next best thing was to check...