Camelot Lounge, May 20 8.5/10 This is the real multicultural Australia: neither threat, failure, myth nor aspiration, but a thumping reality. Migration can be a glue rather than a source of division, because it is something most of us share, even if coming from spectacularly diverse places. Express this diversity…
Category: Concert Reviews – Archive
Randwick Town Hall, May 13 7/10 This concert may well not have happened. The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, the country’s preeminent large jazz ensemble, has just lost its Australia Council funding, and Randwick Council’s commendable Twilight Concert Series may well be jeopardised by forced council mergers. So we should be grateful…
The Basement, May 10 7.5/10 Were one sufficiently oversupplied with leisure to make lists of Australia’s finest and most influential musicians, the late Jackie Orszaczky would feature prominently. He would be on the shortlist of singers, bassists, arrangers, composers, band-leaders, producers, talent-spotters, mentors and (all to himself) piccolo bassists. Eight…