Category: Concert Reviews

March 17, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

  City Recital Hall, March 3 As has happened for countless generations, Toumani Diabate learned the kora from his father, Sidiki, and, in turn, taught his eldest son, also Sidiki. No one knows exactly how many centuries old the kora is, but what is undeniable is that all the accumulated…

February 24, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, February 15 So many jazz singers shoot themselves in the foot by suffering the delusion that they are also credible songwriters. Limping and bloodied they persist, and we, the forgiving audience, wear the tripe to hear the standards. Jo Lawry, the finest jazz vocalist Australia has produced (and…

February 19, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, February 14 It is curious that the Moral Minority’s more stitched-up members have never tried to ban the tango. Perhaps their seething minds miss its implicit erotic charge, most obvious in the dance steps, but evident in the music, too: a constant collision of dark and light, loud…