Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

August 16, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Sound Lounge, July 27 9/10 It doesn’t hit full-frontally, but rather slides into your consciousness like a chimera just caught in the corner of your eye. Then it gradually insinuates itself, until the absorption is complete and time seems to stop. Phil Slater has achieved a rare profundity by ruthlessly…

July 22, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Everest Theatre, July 12 7/10 As a little girl Ella Fitzgerald longed to be a dancer. When (while yet in her teens) she instead became a singer, her ascent to greatness was hastened because she still danced, except that now it with her voice. More than any other jazz singer,…

July 20, 2019 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Sydney Town Hall, July 6 9/10 I could hear that last, diaphanous note still hanging as we left her debut Australian concert; as we walked to the car. The song was The Way We Were, a spontaneous encore sung without the band, just against musical director Brian Nash’s piano and…