Returns, day 2
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2d ago
Day 2 of my Blues weekend was a very different experience.  This was the monthly Canberra Blues Society Pro Jam session.  I've attended these numerous times in the past and just recently hankered for a return.  It's fun and friendly and a hive for some old friends and it has its challenges but it's not too difficult outing for a jazzer.   The feels were comfy enough but ..read more
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Returns, day 1
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
3d ago
It's a blues weekend and the fact that I had to renew my membership to the Germo revels how long it's been since the last one.  Saturday was a show-cum-cover band playing Hendrix and musics of his era, late-'60s, early-'70s.  Hendrix was first up and the band was a trio as expected with plenty of driving bluesy riffs and blaring strat and it was a doozy.  I loved it.  All ..read more
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SoundOut 2025-3
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2w ago
  Then the internationals again, this time for a sax quartet of Richard, Bertrand, Rhys and Jean-Luc playing steady, slowly shifting tones with perhaps some circular breathing in the mix.  All this to visual projected accompaniment from Nicci Hayes who had appeared in the previous year.   And to finish off, some younger local performers, Alex, Gabriella, Jamie and Stuart,& ..read more
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SoundOut 2025-2
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2w ago
Then Zosha Warpena from USA playing hardanger d'amore.  This caused quite a thrill, both for the performance, sometimes drone-like or rhythmic developing from a 3-feel, all with overlaid vocals.  We weren't alone in being perplexed by the instrument.  Hardanger is a Norwegian viola with 9 strings (read Wikipedia), four played and 5 resonant strung underneath or through the neck ..read more
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SoundOut 2025-1
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2w ago
There are 4 SoundOut sessions and 3 workshops, but it's a busy weekend so I can just get to one session.  Unfortunate, as it's a big year with a slew of internationals, even a whole band from France, as well as our locals and others.  My session was no.3, Saturday evening.  I walked in to hear a rising clamour from tenor, alto, soprano saxes, guitar and drums while visual artist ..read more
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Bigs and littles
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2w ago
Callum Allardice appeared upstairs at Smiths, in McGregor Hall, in quartet format.  Interestingly, his merch was essentially two albums: one of this very quartet playing this format in this concert and this music  and the other a much bigger outing called his Cinematic Light Orchestra, comprising the band with significant orchestral accompaniment, strings, horns, all written and ..read more
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Anglicana
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
2w ago
Americana is not something I've ever gone to hear and I've played a few times at the National Folk Festival but didn't manage to stay the day.  But I noticed an English Americana duo performing at Smiths and watched their associated video and I was entranced.  It's essentially a thing of lyrics to my ears and I'd love to understand better how to make and hear lyrics so there was much to ..read more
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Pomes
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
3w ago
My previous appearance to read lyrics at the That Poetry Thing  Big Open Mic night was a great success.  For me, this time was a letdown.  Maybe it was my poetry (...) or maybe the reading which was pretty rushed or the writing which could be obscure.  But then I did particularly like a few lines.  The lyric was Sub dance, about AUKUS and more, so these passages tickled ..read more
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Women doing it for themselves
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
3w ago
Matriarch advertised a free gig on FB and a club dinner appealed.  In the end, we walked in to an Irish instrumental jam in the foyer then Guinness and a beef and Guinness pie (somewhat a pie, but a nice stew none-the-less) and a string of mates who happened to be there and the women doing grunge-punk with original compositions on feminist political themes and some covers, not least of ..read more
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Bohemia
Canberra Jazz blog
by Unknown
3w ago
Bastien and Julien were over from France for just days, playing in the Sydney Festival, at the ACO pier and the Whiteley garden.  Then Smiths in Canberra, staying with some mates Celeste and Bill and then Melbourne, perhaps other gigs.  They are a woodwind duo, mostly soprano sax and bass clarinet but also alto sax and other clarinets.  They may be spoken of as contemporary jazz ..read more
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