Concert Hall, June 10 Chick Corea and Gary Burton have been playing together for 43 years. Other jazz musicians may have clocked up similar feats of collaborative longevity in group contexts, but no one holds a candle to them in a duo, the most intimate of improvising relationships. This rapport…
Category: Concert Reviews
City Recital Hall, July 19 Had Jacques Brel been alive and well and living in Sydney, and had he attended Amanda McBroom and Michelle Brourman’s concert entitled Let’s Fall In Love, he may have died a man content. McBroom’s delivery of his dazzling Carousel, about being unable to step off…
Camelot Lounge, July 17 The acoustic guitar’s very familiarity makes hearing the parameters of what is possible on it suddenly redefined all the more startling. That Dutchman Stochelo Rosenberg has taken Django Reinhardt’s legacy to an almost absurd level of virtuosity was a given. Less expected was that his young…