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…
Category: Concert Reviews
Foundry 616, April 25 7.5/10 Blokes in boaters with banjos and clarinets were so ubiquitous in Australian pubs decades after the so-called trad-jazz revival of the 1960s that, for many people, the term jazz still primarily conjures up that music. These days classic jazz is the preferred name for the…
Camelot Lounge, April 14 9/10 A shattering champagne bottle signals the launch of a ship, and albums are usually launched by playing the music they contain. But what if one has multi-tracked oneself playing 52 instruments and one’s brother playing a further 11? This was Joseph Tawadros’s dilemma in launching…