He’s played with a who’s who of American, British and Australian jazz musicians. His classical compositions have been performed by orchestras including the Melbourne, Queensland and Tasmanian Symphonies. Now the circle has fully turned and Katoomba-raised Bruce Cale, one of the country’s foremost musicians and composers, is not only residing…
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This Is Always (lionsharecords) A tenor saxophone making gentle, sensuous jazz is a grand tradition, like paddle-steamers cruising on wide, slow rivers. Ben Webster Plays Ballads remains one of jazz’s must-have recordings, and now Julien Wilson eases his own tenor into that tradition, in the process creating one of the…
The Basement, March 12 Everything was a dialogue: between idioms, between players, between virtuosity and heart. The reward for a nightmare trip to town (following the Barangaroo fire) was hearing one of the great bands, Roberto Fonseca’s quintet having few peers for scope, power, beauty and cohesion . Since his…