Foundry 616, December 10 It wasn’t carols, but it could have been jazz for Christmas. Just when the credit card’s groaning and the heat’s oppressive, along comes a concert to restore some joie de vivre. Unlike the Greeks, who invented tragedy before coming up with the antidote of comedy, jazz’s…
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Silly Winds (Rouseabout) Some albums should be consigned to history at the earliest convenience, while others deserve resurrection and eternal life. Silly Winds is a compilation drawing on two of Cathie O’Sullivan’s albums from the 1980s. A long-time member of the Larrikins and subsequently an academic, O’Sullivan has an important…
People’s Republic of Australasia, December 6 Rather than sit on fences – especially barbed-wire ones – Jon Rose plays them. This invitation-only performance twisted together Rose’s twin obsessions as an improviser: fences and violins. He actually played violin throughout, but in the second half it was against recordings derived from…