Canberra Jazz blog

I do love the baroque and thereabouts and I love seeing commonalities with jazz improv and classical composition, diminished and cycles and ...

I'd attended a practice to help balance instruments, so this interested me but I could only make 30-min and that's with a subsequent...

One last short day for CIMF2026.  I was sad to miss the final MOSSO gigs and a few others this final day, but so be it;  external conflicts....

The Llewellyn Choir was playing an Easter program, Passion and Resurrection, with its generous choir and a soprano for one of the main works...

My last MOSSO performance, given a need for a break before a choral recording that evening.  Sadly I missed two final MOSSO concerts and the...

Between the two short sets of Lyrebird brass was a performance in the ARC Cinema of music of Fiona Hill, CIMF2026 composer-in-residence.  Wh...

Then music in the courtyard with Lyrebird Brass playing from the balcony above.  Again not optimal for recording or viewing and the chatter ...

Recording the experimental can be a challenge, especially with a few minutes to peruse and setup.  But it's fascinating and fun and my s...

Then MOSSO, a festival within a festival, one full day of hourly music-making in various spaces at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA...

I'd enjoyed Lina tur Bonet immensely playing Rhapsody in Blue with Ensemble Liaison.  She's a lively player, bouncing in her seat, s...

The program lists the two major works played by the Australian String Quartet with Timothy Young, pianist from Ensemble Liaison, two works s...

Personal matters arose, so these CIMF reports are late and probably short.  Next concert was loud and able to fill the Opera House with sopr...

CJ is missing in action.  Will return soon with further CIMF2026 and more.  Excuse the delay but family matters intervened.

I think of the King, our King, a presidential fave, and concert 2 for me is music from that domain.  The music is more impressive.  This was...

I'm recording a swag of concerts in this year's Canberra International Music Festival.  Just audio, given how many there will be.  A...