Canberra Jazz blog

Wesley runs a music scholars program.  I don't know much about the services it offers, but I do see the scholars once or twice a year an...

It's their 45th anniversary concert tour and CD and these are masters and seasoned of our jazz craft so it's so surprise that this w...

Best composition?  I wondered about that but it's a stupid question, especially given my limited knowledge, but my favourite work?  I th...

Salut can mean both hi and bye in French and it's a greeting between family and friends so it's apt for Salut! Baroque, partly for t...

They advise The Elegy Project is "a contemporary chamber music ensemble blending classical, jazz and folk".  It's strange, yes...

Alice Giles introduced this concert by observing that the instruments being played, harp and guitar, are both plucked but they sound quite d...

I was at a family event and talking reading with cousin Licette and got an invitation to her presentation at the State Library the next day....

I missed a busy Euro day in Canberra with two jazz duets the previous weekend so I was happy to see at least one of the duos were featured w...

A pub with a flying saucer hovering over: another boho venue, this time in Adelaide's city centre and with a weekly jazz jam.  I took my...

COMA seems to always have two sets with two ensembles, mostly jazzy but sometimes exploratory classical.  Presumably with frequent connectio...

In Adelaide again for family matters and all very urgent but I managed one COMA outing.  It's a satisfying night, musically exploratory,...

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...