30 June 2023

Taking care of business

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It's not a common event for me, but we got to a 50th anniversary celebration for a business we know and it was in a salubrious location...
29 June 2023

Colours

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We always get to the National Gallery of Victoria when we are in Melbourne. This visit was no different. We'd heard of the Bonnard exhi...
28 June 2023

Venerability

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NCO held its anniversary concert and I hadn't realised, but this is another venerable institution in Canberra.   40 years for this com...
27 June 2023

Clever folk

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It's a long time since I've interested myself in folk music.   Perhaps when I attended some Irish jams in pubs in Adelaide yonks b...
26 June 2023

Living stories

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Another pianist, this one a world star: Garrick Ohlsson.  It was during this concert that I realised I hadn't heard much solo piano rece...
25 June 2023

Kids today

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I reckon the kids I see around me these days are mightily impressive.  Thus it was with the friends of our two sons.  Thus it is with occasi...
24 June 2023

It's a wrap

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The wrap up was Mr Ott again, this time with Nick Garbett in place of Ellen Kirkwood.  I've written of them from last night, so no parti...
23 June 2023

Penultimates

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It was pretty much the ending but we had some seniors of the SIMA scene in the Sandy Evans / Andy Robson Quartet with offsiders Brett Hirst ...
22 June 2023

Stompin'

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The Lord Anson is the hearty hub of the OWJF.  It's got beer, it's got disco-ish lighting and chatter and dancing and fun.  We dropp...
21 June 2023

The song continues

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It's seldom that a jazz festival will feature two singers in a row, at least a modern festival.  But thus it was, and both revisits, and...
20 June 2023

Delights

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It was a small break and the Con trail to Michelle Nicole.  Now I know Michelle well and have delighted in her performances in the past and ...
19 June 2023

Internationale

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Vazesh were a different experience again.  This is jazz as world music as international (if not really internationale).  This is meditative,...
18 June 2023

Young guns

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I was chatting to some of my generation after Tessie Overmeyer Trio's concert.  They were stunned like me by the maturity and chops and ...
17 June 2023

Sunday not early

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It was first up but not too early.  I got in some writing and a family emergency (nothing too serious) and a meetup with some performers and...
16 June 2023

Happy

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Happy is my favourite tune by Public Image Ltd.  Mr Ott didn't play Happy or anything like it, but they did produce it.  The Lord Anson ...