John Shand Posts

December 9, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, December 5 Critics beware: skewer Elaine Paige at your peril, especially if you suffer from insomnia. Your sleeplessness may be haunted by the memory of Memory on endless repeat. Such cruel revenge! It was, therefore, a relief that this concert was a vast improvement over Paige’s 2012 performance…

December 5, 2014 / Album Reviews - Archive

  John Coltrane: Offering (Verve)  Trevor Watts: Veracity (FMR) Cedar Walton: Reliving the Moment (HighNote/Planet) Various Artists: Black Fire! New Spirits! (Soul Jazz) He changed the lives of listeners, and he changed the course of jazz. John Coltrane inspired people to take up the saxophone or rethink the way they…

December 1, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Venue 505, November 21  Flamenco is not just an art form, but an attitude. It seems to say to Death, “Not yet,” and magnifies the life force into as complete an expression of what it is to be human as may be found in any art. It can be as…