John Shand Posts

Concert Hall, June 10 Chick Corea and Gary Burton have been playing together for 43 years. Other jazz musicians may have clocked up similar feats of collaborative longevity in group contexts, but no one holds a candle to them in a duo, the most intimate of improvising relationships. This rapport…

City Recital Hall, July 19  Had Jacques Brel been alive and well and living in Sydney, and had he attended Amanda McBroom and Michelle Brourman’s concert entitled Let’s Fall In Love, he may have died a man content. McBroom’s delivery of his dazzling Carousel, about being unable to step off…