Category: Concert Reviews

July 2, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Concert Hall, June 27  Anthony Warlow’s extraordinary career has ranged from Mozart to Sinatra. Along the way he has shared the stage with Dame Joan Sutherland, haunted the Paris Opera, rounded Eliza’s vowels and taken Broadway by storm. The latter finally happened in a production of Annie that united him…

June 24, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Springwood Presbyterian Hall, June 14   The tenor saxophone is so deeply embedded in jazz that the sound of Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster or John Coltrane is like the music’s conscience. The recent rush of international artists through Sydney brought the profundity of Charles Lloyd’s tenor and the quicksilver of…

June 11, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

John Painter Hall, June 8 To hear the Joshua Redman Quartet within four days of Charles Lloyd’s band was to hear two of the most flexible and thrilling rhythm sections in contemporary jazz. Both shared the slippery bass playing of Reuben Rogers, teamed with drummer Eric Harland in Lloyd’s band…