The song You Only Live Twice (from the James Bond film of the same name) would have more kitsch quotient than improvising potential to most ears. Not Bill Frisell. The one constant in the work of the jazz guitarist – a peer of John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and John…
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As a teen, pianist Judy Bailey usually heard classical or pop music coming from the cream-coloured Bakelite radio that hunched on the Formica kitchen bench of her family’s home in Whangarei, New Zealand. But on this particular afternoon, her 13-year-old ears heard something new. She recognised the song, East…
David Williamson’s first memory is of Sydney. At three-and-a-half, the Melbourne born-and-bred playwright was visiting an uncle with his family, and remembers “sitting in a backyard on a very bright, sunny day, surrounded by bougainvilleas and subtropical flowers,” he says via Zoom from Provence, where’s he’s holidaying. “The fact my…