Category: Features

August 19, 2015 / Features - Archive

Bruce Cale does not just live in Katoomba, he plays the Mountains in his music. The connection, after all, could not be deeper. He was born in Leura and grew up in Katoomba where, as a child, he took violin lessons above a shop on the main street – a…

July 25, 2015 / Features - Archive
June 1, 2015 / Features - Archive

One afternoon in 1977 Herbie Hancock drove to Chick Corea’s house in Los Angeles. As Hancock recounts in in his autobiography Possibilities, the plan was to see what (if anything) happened when the pair – at the pinnacle of their generation’s jazz pianists – duetted on two grand pianos. After…