Canberra Jazz blog

I have a history of missing bassist Tamara Murphy so I’m relieved to have finally caught her but it was a close thing. Tamara was here ag...

Bill ”Doc” Webster was a find. He leads a band that he calls Jazz Nostalgia but it deserves weightier significance. Doc gives us authenti...

It was a sunny day and we were at San Francisco’s Farmers’ Market which is held three days a week at the Ferry building. This is both terri...

I was excited to see that Cedar Walton was in town while we were there, playing a four night stand with his trio at the Jazz Showcase. Th...

Chicago was an unexpected change of plans, but the jazz community is small and fairly easy to find so I caught two local bans: the Harold Wa...

We also have a great love of museums and this trip was an opportunity to visit a few of the world’s great collections. No...

Text by Brenton Holmes Only Katie Noonan could deliver as first course to her full-house audience an earnest young string quartet playing ...

It was my last night in NYC and there were too many choices. I chose Henry Threadgill giving a workshop at the Jazz Gallery. The session w...

I saw a description of Smalls as a great and involving club, but one that you can’t make a living playing at. I doubt it’s an MBA-gr...

Jazz is everywhere around me here. A large part is being in Greenwich Village; some part is in the time of year, the nice weather and the h...

It was fortuitous, not planned, that we were in NYC for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and it was an interesting place to be. The day itse...

Continuing our religious theme, we attended a jazz mass at St John’s evangelical Lutheran Church in Christopher Street, just a block from ...

I loved the Fat Cat as a venue, doubly so because I heard a lovely and talented string quartet playing to a noisy audience that was engage...

My night at the Crosscurrent Festival with Dave Burrell and Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin was clearly the most challenging outing of my time i...

There was joy and brilliance aplenty the other night. Geri Allen played the Village Vanguard. She’d been there for the week but this was a...