Tag: "jazz"

Q&A: Roger Clark From Dizzy's Jazz Club
0 Comments. 275 Views. Posted 21 Jan 2013 @ 12:12pm.
60 SECONDS WITH ROGER CLARK FROM DIZZY’S JAZZ CLUB   Describe what Dizzy’s is about and where you’re located. Dizzy’s is a unique jazz venue in Melbourne as is offers both fine dining with table service for a great show or one is able to come for show only and use our friendly bar service. Dizzy’s is really about a complete night out where food, wine and service is tops while enjoying... Read More
Q&A: Mo Sesto
0 Comments. 291 Views. Posted 10 Dec 2012 @ 4:16pm.
When’s the gig and with who? The gig is Thursday December 13 at the Paris Cat, Melbourne (underground jazz club). I have the pleasure of playing with some awesome young jazz musicians: Adrian Montagnese, Joshua Kelly, Jessica Carlton, Ben Teniswood plus Jon Chidgey who has been on the jazz scene for a while. They are a really energetic and crazy band (good crazy). I directed and participated in... Read More
American Songbook Series
0 Comments. 863 Views. Posted 4 Jun 2012 @ 1:41pm.
The diversity of Avigail Herman’s career is almost threatening. Despite her daunting resume she is a fast-talking, fast-thinking, and creative inspiration to talk to. Warm and approachable is not the first thing you would imagine from someone whose career has spread its tentacles into so many pursuits. As a performer she has spread herself between musical theatre, session work (that I learned... Read More
Jose James: Melbourne Jazz Festival
0 Comments. 1,513 Views. Posted 31 May 2012 @ 11:41am.
Jose James is a part of the new wave of jazz performers. Jazz began as a pioneering musical pursuit where artists broke the rules and purged away the rigid constructs of classical music. It was as drug-fuelled and hedonistic as the rock of the ‘60s and ‘70s or the nihilism of the ‘90s. Somewhere along the way it got trapped in its own mystique and it is artists like Jose James, who combines hip... Read More
Bennett's Lane Jazz Club
0 Comments. 1,152 Views. Posted 31 May 2012 @ 11:29am.
“I’m really sorry,” laughs Megg Evans in her sweet, husky voice, “but I was the one who started the door charge. I didn’t even have a tin to put it in, I put it in my pockets. Totally insane.” Evans is referring to her appointment as door person at Bennets Lane Jazz Club in March of 1993, two months after she’d met the owner when she was just 17. Having moved from Perth to Melbourne, the... Read More
Jazz On Film
0 Comments. 1,099 Views. Posted 31 May 2012 @ 11:21am.
The marriage of music and film is a long and mostly harmonious one. Even back when films had no sound, live musicians provided musical accompaniment for the images. Jazz and 'talkies' came into their own right around the same time, and it's hard to think of the classic Hollywood of the '40s and '50s within your daydream being complemented by a jazz soundtrack. Jazz On Film at ACMI explores the... Read More
Stonnington Jazz
0 Comments. 691 Views. Posted 16 May 2012 @ 3:44pm.
Like Mr Noir, you may think jazz is just for science teachers and other elbow-patched drips. Do you fear jazz, the lack of rules, the lack of boundaries? Perhaps it’s time to branch out and discover the energy. “That’s what drew me to it, when I was 16,” says Allan Browne, the highly-esteemed patron of Stonnington Jazz.  During his incredible musical career of over 50 years, Browne has... Read More
60 Seconds With... Michael McQuaid’s Red Hot Rhythmakers
0 Comments. 623 Views. Posted 1 May 2012 @ 11:11am.
So then, what’s the band name and what do you ‘do’ in the band? We’re called Michael McQuaid’s Red Hot Rhythmakers. I’m the bandleader, and I play trumpet and write music for the group.   What do you think people will say you sound like?We play really old-school big band jazz, the sort of stuff you would have heard in a Chicago speakeasy in the '20s or a Harlem ballroom in the '30s. We’ve... Read More
Jazz On Film
0 Comments. 552 Views. Posted 7 May 2012 @ 12:40pm.
Running hand in hand with the Melbourne Jazz Festival for the fourth consecutive year, ACMI will present its week long film program Jazz On Film – a program that will focus on two artists who found their inspiration in jazz: Terence Blanchard and Woody Allen.  Consisting of five films, this year’s season brings forth works from both men, including Blanchard’s Summer of Sam and the... Read More
La Sera : Sees The Light
0 Comments. 756 Views. Posted 30 Apr 2012 @ 9:21am.
Break-up albums are a dime a dozen, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more lighthearted breakup album than La Sera’s Sees The Light. Opening song Love That’s Gone has all intentions of being an introverted, self-pitying song going by its title and musical style, but when Katy Goodman kicks things off with the lyric ‘I love my life without you’, it suggests something quite different. After this... Read More
Lapalux and oOoOO Double Bill
0 Comments. 827 Views. Posted 29 Apr 2012 @ 4:41pm.
Alias of twenty-two year old Essex beats fiend Stuart Howard, Lapalux is a name to keep your eyes on. Responsible for some seriously stellar releases on Pictures and his new home, Flying Lotus-owned Brainfeeder alongside stellar reworks for Bonobo, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Crystal Fighters, Howard's unique brand of twisted sampling skills and soulful, warm beats is proving... Read More
Chet Faker @ The Toff In Town
0 Comments. 1,357 Views. Posted 24 Apr 2012 @ 12:33pm.
  Chet Faker is two things: a beard and a voice. According to his publicist, the much-feted electro artist hails from Melbourne’s “tight-knit disco and house music scene” (the first rule of Melbourne’s tight-knit disco and house music scene is you do not talk about Melbourne’s tight-knit disco and house music scene) but there is little trace of these roots in his sound. There are beats, for... Read More
Angus Stone : Bird On The Buffalo
0 Comments. 1,235 Views. Posted 18 Apr 2012 @ 1:28pm.
  A second single from the soon-to-be-released solo album. Bird On The Buffalo is a West Coast desert rambler, a hazy, peyote cowboy shuffle under endless blood orange skies. The rhythm slaps, the electric guitar spirals and Angus sings like Dylan, relaxed and reborn.     Read More
60 Seconds With... Frankie Wants Out
0 Comments. 794 Views. Posted 13 Apr 2012 @ 10:44am.
  Define your genre in five words or less: Rockin’ gangster swing.   Bearing the terrible clichéd nature of this question, what do you reckon people will say you sound like? Hmmm, Brian Setzer Orchestra meets The Cat Empire.   If you could travel back in time and show one of your musical heroes your stuff, who would it be and why? Glenn Miller, so he could see what we've done to... Read More
60 Seconds With... Funk Buddies
0 Comments. 727 Views. Posted 10 Apr 2012 @ 4:29pm.
  Define your genre in five words or less: New Orleans style-street funk.   So, um... what is New Orleans style street funk?New Orleans is known to most people as the birthplace of jazz. But as pop music took over the rest of the world, the New Orleans street bands were still doing their thing. They evolved too, as they were influenced by ground breaking funk artists such as James... Read More
Tom Showtime
0 Comments. 865 Views. Posted 6 Apr 2012 @ 11:01am.
  A suitably engaged Tom Showtime began collecting and spinning records in London in early 2000, seemingly motivated by his musical surroundings. After returning home to Melbourne in 2008, he releasedThe Showtime EP and followed up with EP3013 last year. After spending five years in the UK collecting records and focusing on becoming a DJ, he was messing around with beat... Read More
Matt Bailey : The Book Of Illumination
0 Comments. 1,269 Views. Posted 3 Apr 2012 @ 11:40am.
  I remember walking into the Old Bar a few years ago. It was a Sunday night in the winter months. Being Melbourne, it was cold and dark outside; the only poor souls foolish enough to head out that night seemed to have congregated in the cavernous confines of the Old Bar. There was a guy on stage who looked vaguely familiar, in that Melbourne music sort of a way: beard, guitar, enigmatic... Read More
Andrew Bird : Break It Yourself
0 Comments. 1,371 Views. Posted 21 Mar 2012 @ 6:07am.
  There are those who appear different and those who are different. Chicago-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is undoubtedly peculiar, genuinely and endearingly so. And these days, Bird is a level above most of his experimental/indie contemporaries. Being a violin virtuoso hasn’t confined his reach, but illuminated his aspiration of creating strangely harmonious... Read More
The Belle And The Bone People : The Light
0 Comments. 846 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:30am.
  Seems fledgling label The A&R Department like their music soft and intricately detailed, a kind of folk rock-infused needlepoint. I think their taste is a bit weird, to be honest. The Belle And The Bone People single, for example, is layered but almost offensively smooth, verging on adult contemporary. It is indie pop with a jazzy, theatrical edge, but the lyrics seem flamboyantly and... Read More
Panama : Magic
0 Comments. 733 Views. Posted 22 Feb 2012 @ 10:11am.
  NT-born Jarrah McLeary is making synth pop in a post-Vampire Weekend world, heavy on the bongos and the tropical swing, For all its lack of distinction, Magic is a nice track, happy and hooking just where it should. It kind of reminds me Romancing The Stone, too, which is excellent. Romancing The Stone is an excellent film.   Read More
Gappy Ranks
0 Comments. 654 Views. Posted 21 Feb 2012 @ 10:18am.
  It’s a long journey from England to Australia, but according to Gappy Ranks (aka Jacob Williams), every mile of it is worth it if it means spreading the message of reggae across the world. As the reggae star points out – if they’re calling you back to do another show, that means you got something right the last time around. “It’s a pleasure to be back in Australia,” says Williams. “Just... Read More
Brous
0 Comments. 873 Views. Posted 16 Feb 2012 @ 8:46am.
  Last October, to cap off an already accomplished 2011, Sophia Brous was astonished to hear of her nominations for not one, but three EG Awards – Best Song (for Streamers), Best New Talent and Best Female Artist – but for fortunate music fans who had already witnessed the talents of this truly versatile artist, the acknowledgement was hardly unexpected. The Melbourne singer-songwriter was... Read More
Q&A: Kelly Auty
0 Comments. 865 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 1:09pm.
  So then, what do you ‘do’ in the band? I sing, I dance, I entertain the fans – that’s the performance bit. For every gig there is the booking, repertoire and rehearsals, promotion and so on. It’s a busy schedule and well worth the work when the lights go up and the music starts. Feels like herding cats sometimes but I wouldn’t want to spend my life any other way.   What do you think... Read More
Joe Robinson, Wednesday January 11, Bennetts Lane
0 Comments. 961 Views. Posted 31 Jan 2012 @ 3:49pm.
In 2008 a 16-year-old Joe Robinson took out Australia's Got Talent with his humble charm and impressive guitar playing, his victory clinched with a performance of the Tommy Emmanuel arrangement of Classical Gas. But rather than cashing in on his notoriety and youth with a rushed album of covers, Robinson relocated to Nashville, where he has spent the last few years refining his style and... Read More
Sol Nation : Every Reason
0 Comments. 999 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 3:30pm.
Sol Nation are a Melbourne reggae collective with roots in East Timorese folk and Afro-Beat. They have a self-titled EP behind them and this new single ahead, to be launched at the NSC on February 3. It starts out pleasantly enough – a loping, electric guitar laced reggae tune with buttery vocals, but things get really interesting three minutes in. The tempo ramps up to a heart-starting Cuban... Read More
The Push Take Over Federation Square
0 Comments. 1,356 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 7:01am.
Celebrate Australia Day (or, y'know, the days before and after Australia Day) with the best live Aussie music over three special Fed Square Live gigs, presented by The Push.  Be privy to some high-energy rhythm and blues, with a touch of doo-wop and ska from Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes from 6pm alongside the smooth soul explosion that is Saskwatch as they light up the... Read More
MSO Sidney Myer Free Concerts
0 Comments. 1,014 Views. Posted 25 Jan 2012 @ 6:35am.
This February, the MSO is inviting all Victorians to join them on a musical journey ranging from romantic Russian to indigenous Australia. The best part about it all? It’s free.  There’s nothing more rewarding than a free cultural experience, I say. And what better venue for it to take place in than Sidney Myer Music Bowl. With a four-part concert series, audience members will get the... Read More
Fat Freddy's Drop Swinging By
0 Comments. 1,424 Views. Posted 9 Jan 2012 @ 8:49am.
Taking a break from touring with Erykah Badu, Fat Freddy's Drop are giving their Australian fans a chance to go back to where it all began with a return to the Prince Bandroom for an evening.  Notorious for their improvised and unpredictable manner of playing both live and in the studio, the group have been described as everything from dub, jazz, reggae, techno and funk, winning over... Read More
Osunlade Lands in Australia
0 Comments. 2,072 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 12:21pm.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri – a city known for its place in pioneering jazz and blues as well as home to other innovative artists like Miles Davis, the Grammy award-winning Osunlade comes from a background of musical pioneers. His career in music production kicked off with a role as the composer of Sesame Street’s soundtrack, amusingly enough  - from there, he was quick to branch... Read More
Austra
0 Comments. 1,523 Views. Posted 2 Dec 2011 @ 8:26am.
When Katie Stelmanis, lead singer and founder of ethereal Canadian synth-pop trio Austra, was a girl in Toronto, Canada, she dreamt of becoming an opera singer. She'd joined the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, where she sang for the renowned Canadian Opera Company. Later, she trained extensively on the viola and piano, preparing to realise her chosen career. But something happened along the way... Read More
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