Canberra Jazz blog

This was a lovely little concert. The location is special and old for Canberra: not exactly Notre Dame but it does have gargoyles. It wa...

I was interested not just because they are two musicians I admire, but because of the unique musical pairing. I recently played a piano/b...

It was Anzac Day and Jonathan's program was entitled "From anguish to hope...". By that hour, it was an alternative to Two-...

David Braid is from Canada and his band was called The North and they are certainly from northerly climes (two Canadians, a Finn living in...

Electronic music synthesizers have a fairly short history even if they are now omnipresent. I still remember first seeing a MiniMoog and ...

It was a practical joke by son no.2 and I won it! He entered me in the draw for one of 150 double passes (from 6,000 applications) for a ...

Always an honour to play on the same turf as such luminaries as John Mackey and Leisa Keen. They had played this gig on Saturday and this...

It's a big sprawling concoction that perhaps only a composer's mother could love. That's the way we'd all been talking of ...

High courting. It was the second recent performance of Musica da Camera in the High Court Foyer and it was a great success. Barbara J Gi...

Two concerts on a day and the second a double album launch. This was a mixed band of mates from the James Morrison Academy of Music in Mo...

I would think it would have been nerve-wracking. Sally and Brendan and John and Greg are great musicians and I guess they've been thr...

To play at a Wesley Music Centre's Wednesday lunchtime concert is an annual outing for Roland Peelman. It's an introduction to ea...