Jazz Articles about Tim Nikolsky

About Tim Nikolsky

Book Review

Tim Nikolsky: Australian Jazz Real Book

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2013

Australian Jazz Real Book Tim Nikolsky 662 pages ISBN: 979-0-9009613-5-8 Australian Jazz Real Book 2013 It's been five years in the making, but finally, Melbourne guitarist Tim Nikolsky's one-man crusade to assemble an Australian Jazz Real Book has succeeded. In fact, as Nikolsky related in a 2011 interview with All About Jazz , it's been a fairly democratic process, with a wide cross-section of Australian jazz musicians and ...

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Album Review

Margo Leighton & Tim Nikolsky: Redemption

Read "Redemption" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 20, 2011

Redemption is the songwriting collaboration of two Melbourne-based musicians, vocalist Margot Leighton and guitarist Tim Nikolsky. Essentially a vehicle for Leighton's honey-toned voice, the quintet interprets 14 originals, which cover a range of styles from Latin and soul, to funk, ballad, R&B, and a slice of the Aussie equivalent of Americana. Leighton and Nikolsky certainly don't try to reinvent the wheel, but the sunny disposition of the music, the excellent musicianship, and memorable compositions mark Redemption out as the perfect ...

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Interview

Tim Nikolsky: Getting Real Down Under

by Ian Patterson
April 20, 2011

Australian jazz? Although New Orleans is the undisputed historical cradle of jazz, any attempt at a definition of what modern jazz is seems to crash against the rocks of uncertainty at best, and narrow mindedness at worst. Tim Nikolsky--a guitarist who has been part of the Melbourne jazz scene for a decade--agrees that, whilst it is not a simple matter to define a particularly Australian brand of jazz, nevertheless it exists. Like almost every other jazz musician on the planet, ...