FIRST A DRUNKEN BOAT, THEN PIANO ROMANCE
Allan Browne plays Uptown Jazz Cafe SNAP PREVIEWS: MIJF CLUB SESSIONS Monday 2 June 2014 BENNETTS LANE 7pm: Allan Browne Quintet performs The Drunken Boat, a suite exploring Rimbaud’s poem about a...
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Attentive Allan Browne. PICTORIAL UPDATE MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club 7pm Monday 2 June: Allan Browne Quintet performs The Drunken Boat I had not heard The Drunken Boat performed live,...
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A piano awaits Livio Manafra REFLECTION: Livio Minafra (Italy), MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane 9.30pm Monday 2 June 2014 I plan to post a review of this festival — within the limits of those...
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Satsuki Odamura plays koto with Way Out West PICTORIAL UPDATE: Way Out West plays Footscray Community Arts Centre, 7.30pm Tuesday 3 June for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival It was a...
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Eric Harland at Bennetts Lane PICTORIAL UPDATE: Oehlers/Harland/Rogers/Grabowsky, MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane 9.30pm Tuesday 3 June 2014 Someone I know has taken issue with whether this festival...
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Gerry Koster and John McBeath Lots of faces keep turning up at Melbourne International Jazz Festival concerts. Some are fans who can’t resist the live music on offer, others are involved in the “jazz...
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Johnny Tedesco and Chris Hale perform Sylvan Coda REFLECTION: Christopher Hale’s Sylvan Coda opens for Jorge Pardo “Huellas” at Melbourne Recital Centre, Saturday 31 May at 7.30pm Here and Now opens...
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Jarmo Saari on electric guitar with Jukka Perko Avara Trio REFLECTION: Jukka Perko Avara Trio (Finland), MIJF Club Session at Bennetts Lane 9.30pm Wednesday 4 June 2014 I hurried from Here and Now and...
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Mike Nock at The Wheeler Centre REFLECTION: A Conversation at The Wheeler Centre and three concerts at The Malthouse on Saturday 7 June 2014 for Melbourne International Jazz Festival 1pm: A...
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Eric Harland and Jamie Oehlers in a MIJF highlight for 2014. WRAP-UP REVIEW: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2014, 30 May to 8 June So far for this year’s MIJF I’ve posted previews, pictorial...
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