Canberra Jazz blog

Given this concert's Bohemian theme, I would no longer think of Simandl as unconventional but artistic, yes.   Simandl developed the m...

'Twenty-eight countries, including Australia, the UK and France, are demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and for Israel to l...

In so many ways, this concert by Salut! Baroque was delightful.   It's a throwaway description but worthy and apt in this case.   The ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Again Jinbo Huang brought his students to Wesley for a concert outing.   I've seen several of these and they are always rewarding, sta...

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...