Category: Features

March 9, 2016 / Features - Archive

Bryce Rohde and Jack Brokensha arrived in Canada in 1953 filled with optimism about pursuing their musical careers in the Americas. The first music they heard, however, was the sound of a cell door slamming, having been jailed for landing with neither funds nor means of support. They were bailed…

January 15, 2016 / Features - Archive

In late February Stu Hunter will try making music on destroyed guns. By comparison his Sydney Festival premiere of The Migration looks quite conventional, being performed by Hunter and his dream team on piano, horns, guitar, bass and drums. But in fact this concert is just as improbable in its…

October 16, 2015 / Features - Archive

Purists loathe him, and the feeling, it seems, is mutual. John McLaughlin calls purists “the bane of the world”, and has variously upset the jazz ones by being too rocky, the fusion ones by being too Indian and the Indian ones by being too western. Meanwhile he has left a…