Canberra Jazz blog

This CV19 era is a downer. There have been a few jazz gigs but I couldn't get to them for some reason of other. As a break, we went of...

The Wadsworth organ seemed out of place in this modern church space, all stage upfront with lectern and no altar, but with resident band gea...

Megan says that I report every gig as the "best eva".  I don't think I do, quite, but this one really was.  Maybe it was getti...

It's a strange experience.  This was my first concert since the Covid close-down six months ago.  The group was much the same - twenty o...

FWIW, a note of consternation for readers.  Blogger has changed its publishing interface and I can no longer publish multiple images to di...

There's little music and particularly little jazz that I know of these days, this being the time of the pandemic.  But a last minute adv...

There's a line from Sting on the 1980 album Zenyatta Mondatta  by The Police that has always stuck on my brain.  It's a great melody...

Art song is a style. I'd heard of it, but looked it up: mostly solo voice with piano, excluding arias and chamber music with song and t...

I expect there are a lot of musicians out there in Covid-land who are a little rusty With the best intentions, we mostly don't manage...

The return of live music is now judicious, especially with the second wave of CV19 in Melbourne and, as I write this, Bateman's Bay. ...

Once again back at Molly for another Covid gig, this time with three of our local heroes playing music of another pair of heroes, Ellingto...

We've been stuck inside and doing streams and webinars. Here's something that's a little more active and quite fun: playing tog...

There's not too much international travel these days, but Heather and Leigh got back from Paris just at the start of the pandemic a...

Well, here's a change. Not for the streaming, which is common to my daily life these days, but for the event. The International Onli...

Streams are the core of our recent experience. I would find it hard to count the Webinars I've taken part in. A few invited guests s...