Canberra Jazz blog

John and Marie are our locals but I pinch myself when I say it.  Like many who spend time studying and performing in European music circles,...

It's somewhat strange but lovely that a principal from the LSO and violist from a significant string quartet formed the Maruki Community...

Well, these things come to an end.  Just a few final notes.  The last show was essentially mostly just songs from Chantelle Delaney and Thom...

There's more of course.  A cruise ship is an indulgent mass of entertainment, food and drink if perhaps not an intellectual fervour.  Bu...

A Beatles themed evening replaced our second Celtic stage show.  First up a trivia session.  Twenty questions: guess the song from a few int...

A vocalist was taken ill, so we had two goes at a magician, Adam Murby, then later juggler, two shows of Aussie-kinked Celtic music and anot...

I love the shows!  As I said, not Shakespeare but classy, skilled, heaps of work in development.  I can feel the role of the musos, primaril...

This can be just a solemn mark of respect.  We were in Tauranga today.  The ship was tied up in port  just a kilometre from the very pretty ...

First up is a few bands, not in particular order.  The main musos are the resident band, but more on them later.  They are the jazz trained ...

Another cruise with my Mum.  A cruise is an appropriate form of travel for us: meeting people is the best, but also comfy living, some trivi...

This was the first Wednesday Lunchtime concert for the year at Wesley, a series I record for the performers.  The performers were a duo of p...

I say Alt. because I was attending something somewhat new.  One night with a rap session earlier on then Afrobeat.  The rap wasn't the f...

Yes Victor Wooten made the next post and also his Wooten brothers and they played at, can you believe it, the Harmonie German Club in the Ze...