Category: Features

From playing with charades with Beyonce and Jay Z to performing with traditional Algerian musicians is admittedly a stretch, but Barney McAll and Greg Lloyd headed overseas with the same idea: to expand their horizons. McAll went to New York and Lloyd to Paris, neither jazz pianist knowing what would…

“If I can make it there/I’ll make it anywhere,” sang Frank Sinatra about New York, the world’s jazz Mecca. Since Frank sang that jazz ceased to be a style so much as a language common to improvising musicians from Mumbai to Rio. Sydney’s annual inundation of artists from Melbourne’s International…