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WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — BARNEY McALL & SYLENT RUNNING
Barney McAll on keyboards, Gian Slater vocals, Chris Hale on electric bass, Ben Vanderwal on drums, Dan West on laptop, toys, electronics, Nir Felder (New York) on guitar This was quite different from...
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WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — JOHN McALL’S BLACK MONEY
John McAll on piano, Jordan Murray on trombone, Tim Wilson on flute and alto sax (David Rex broke his arm), Adam Simmons on reeds, Philip Rex on acoustic bass, David Jones on drums at Jazz on Ovens I...
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WANGARATTA JAZZ 09 — LINDA OH TRIO
Saturday performance in Memorial Hall: Linda Oh on acoustic bass, Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, Tommy Crane (of Be An Astronaut) on drums This was first chance to hear the exciting New York trio of...
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Wangaratta Jazz 2009 — Review
AS the dust settled on the Steinway grand piano in Wangaratta’s new Performing Arts Centre at the start of Cup week, the man wheeling out boxes of unsold CDs admitted sales had been “well down” this...
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PERFECT PRESENT — KURT ELLING ON BEING IN THE MOMENT
INTERVIEW Drawcard: Kurt Elling KURT Elling is a hard taskmaster — hard on himself and on his audiences. The Grammy award-winning vocalist has made a rigorous study of the great jazz singers and...
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THINGS HAPPEN — A FEW WORDS ON WANG
Impish humour: Kurt Elling the showman. REVIEW: WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 ROGER MITCHELL attempts to sum up Australia’s major festival of improvised music in a few words WHEN Mike Nock’s New Quintet opened...
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WANGARATTA JAZZ 2010 — JEF NEVE TRIO
Tension: Jef Neve at the piano. GIG: WPAC Theatre, 5pm, October 30 Jef Neve piano, Ruben Samama acoustic bass, Teun Verbruggen drums and megaphone This was the only set I heard by this trio with...
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GIGS NOT TO MISS 3 — TUESDAY
Tuesday, March 22 at 9pm, Bennetts Lane, Melbourne CALLUM G’FROERER QUARTET Callum G'Froerer at Wangaratta 2010 with Johannes Leubbers Dectet Perth-based trumpet player Callum G’Froerer leads a new...
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TIMBRES WELL CRAFTED IN NEW SUITE
REVIEW: Murphy’s Law premieres “Big Creatures Little Creatures: The Modular Suite”, written for MIJF by PBS Young Elder of Jazz Competition winner Tamara Murphy — Jordan Murray trombone, Nashua Lee...
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ISN’T IT GRAND, NORWEGIAN BAND
REVIEW Ausjazz blog picks some highlights from the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival: A festival highlight: Haaken Mjasset Johansen with Motif from Norway. All up, Ausjazz went to all or part...
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