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…
Category: Concert Reviews
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…
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…