Canberra Jazz blog

Friday Night Live started its season from ArtSound last night with a quartet of talented and capable students from the Jazz School appeari...

ArtSound will be broadcasting live jazz concerts on Friday nights. Some will be live from the studio; others will be from ArtSound's la...

John Mackey’s quintet played for ABCFM today for a live to air broadcast on ABCFM. It was the last of four weekly concerts out of Canberr...

The long residency of Trident is coming to an end this Tuesday night at Trinity Bar in Dickson. Trident has been involved various musos for...

Thredbo Jazz Festival over the weekend of 2-4 May. Features Leroy Jones (trumpet soloist with Harry Connick) and Katja Toivolo (trombone fr...

By Daniel Wild With funky underpinnings, hard beats and soulful guitar, led by sax playing that used every register, the Subterraneans o...

I got to the second Jazz at the Folkus jam session on Saturday. It was not quite what I had expected. The music was fairly mainstrea...

New York came to Canberra again this week. This one had a mix of Australian and Scandinavian connections. Both of these are moderately c...

Here’s another piece in the jazz puzzle being put in place. There’s now a monthly jazz jam session open to players around Canberra. Camero...

Every now and then you attend a concert that gives you real pleasure, leaves you wishing for more. Stephen Magnusson at the Jazz School B...

Gareth and his mates performed last night at the Gods as the Gareth Hill Quartet. It was a return performance of the Sam Young Quartet whic...

It was a refreshingly different style of crossover that was presented by The Translators last night at Hippo, and perhaps apt following the ...

Trombone is having its place in the sun in small as well as large ensembles. But tuba remains a rare instrument, despite its outing when th...

Ben Marston commenced his Jazz Project for 2008 with a big band session in the Street Theatre on Sunday. Big bands present a high level o...

Jamie Oehlers was back in Canberra last night with his Quartet. It’s the same band that played so impressively at Hippos a year or so bac...